Perlotto Dish in Post
In general, perlotto can be compared to risotto. It’s just getting ready barley dish. Try to cook lean perlotto with beetroot. Get a lot of pleasure from the taste and incredible amount of vitamins. No wonder “pearl barley” was the main dish Roman legionnaires.
Beetroot Perlotto
A lean dish can easily be turned into a fast, if use cheese, sour cream or creamy mayonnaise. Most beetroot, which Blumenthal invented, is considered a beautiful risotto – the most creative chef in the world. In Italy, barley dishes are called orzotto. What do you call the dish – perlotto or orzotto, special doesn’t matter. The main thing is taste and benefit, factors are very important for the fasting diet.
To make beetroot perlotto, you will need 
- Pearl barley – about 200g.
- Beets (choose sweet, juicy) – boil 2pcs.
- Onion – 1pc.
- Bouillon (vegetable) – 1.5l. Not fasting can use chicken.
- Balsamic vinegar
- Vegetable oil
- Lemon (you will need a little zest and 1 tsp. juice)
Decorating perlotto is usually made with greens, cheese mixed with cream, sour cream. How to enter the Post? You can use tofu (delicious soy cheese), lean mayonnaise.
Cook perlotto with beets can be as follows:
Soak pearl barley (possible in the evening, or for 3-4 hours). Make a marinade from vegetable oil, balsamic vinegar. Spices, as well as salt with sugar, can be added to taste. AT pickle dip small cubes of 1 beetroot. Second root crop grind in a blender. To make the mass fragrant, add there lemon zest.
Stir the onion until transparent in the oil. Add the barley to it. Groats will not look like pearl grains. Pour into the pan slightly acidified with lemon juice water. If cooking is not lean dish, it is delicious to use dry wine. The fire must not be weak and even a little more than moderate. Wait for the liquid to boil, start pouring a little into the mass of vegetable (or chicken) bouillon.
How to cook lean or non-lean cream sauce. Use regular or soy cheese. Натрите на терке и разведите а) в 
подогретых сливках или в) вlean mayonnaise.
Pour the beetroot into the prepared perlotto (taste it) from the blender and simmer a little 3-4 minutes.
Serve, decorate as you like – you have cheese sauce and pickled beetroot cubes
Tasty ideas
It’s very interesting to put perlotto in tartlets, or to give the dish is cylindrical in shape. There is a simple method described in recipe “Tartar. Herring recipe.”
