Vegetable Barley Soup

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Have you ever cooked with barley before? Barley is a larger, softer version of rice (my opinion, anyway). It is a grain, high in calories but also high in fiber and protein and can easily be incorporated into an awesome vegetable soup to make it a bit more filling with extra protein and fiber. Apparently they have a "quick cook" barley and a more time consuming. I have looked online but I haven't found many recipes using barley, which is kind of surprising considering how good it is! Attached is the photo of the vegetable barley soup I made - relatively inexpensive - using a vegetable broth, diced tomatoes, diced carrots, a couple of diced potatoes, frozen green beans, and some diced white or yellow onions, in a good vegetable broth (I use a brand called Better Than Boullion, which is really salty but delicious), and two cups of cooked barley. I probably did something wrong with the barley, as it seemed like some it of it was sticking together/a little clumpy. But still overall delicious. I still have half a box of this barley and I kind of want to use it up, since I have it...on something besides soup. Do you use barley? What kind of recipes do you cook with it? Any you would suggest?