Beef Mushroom Barley Soup - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 lb beef stew meat
3 onions, chopped
6 carrots, diced
1 lb button mushroom, sliced
8 cups beef broth (use low sodium if you prefer)
1 cup barley
1 teaspoon garlic salt
1 teaspoon dried basil
1/4 teaspoon pepper
2 dashes Tabasco sauce

Preparation

Remove visible fat from beef and cut into small pieces.
Brown meat (in 1 tsp olive oil if desired).
Add onions and mushrooms and saute for 10 minutes.
Stir in remaining ingredients, bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer, uncovered, for at least 2 hours.
You can add some water if soup gets too thick.
Pour into bowls and serve.