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Summer Vegetable Stew With Wheat or Rye Berries

Photo: Burcu Avsar and Zach DeSart

BY Mark Bittman

PUBLISHED November 29, 2023

A stew with wheat berries may bring to mind anything but summer, but a pot of bright, crisp summer vegetables combined with chewy wheat berries is satisfying and won’t weigh you down.

 

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Since the wheat or rye berries are added cooked to the stew, you can substitute most any grain, though I would recommend you go with one that has some chew to it, like hominy or hulled barley, so it doesn’t get lost in the mix.

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