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Himalayan Naked Barley

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An old hill barley whose husk falls away easily, so the whole grain comes to the kitchen.

What it is

Naked, or hulless, barley is a form of barley whose hull is loosely attached and comes away easily, unlike common barley, whose tough hull has to be milled off.

Barley has been a staple of the high Himalaya for centuries: across Tibet it is roasted and ground into tsampa, a flour eaten every day.

At Full Circle

All the barley we use is Himalayan naked barley. It goes into our sattu, our sourdough mathri, our puffed barley and our roasted barley mix.

Read more: Wikipedia: Barley (hulless barley, tsampa)

Threshing barley in Tibet, where hulless barley is the everyday grain. Photo: Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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