Greek Style Farro Salad

Life is too short for boring salads. And as you’ve probably noticed, I’m mildly obsessed with salads. Grain salads such as my Greek Style Farro are especially wonderful because they actually get better with age! As a mom of a crawling 9 month old, it is nice to have a lunch option that won’t wilt after a 20 minutes.

Farro is a delicious whole grain that I encourage you to try if you haven’t before. Chewy and nutty, it provides some real “meat” to a salad.  It also happens to be extremely nutritious:

• Protein Rich: Each 1/2 c serving provides 7 grams of protein. When combined with legumes, it forms a complete protein. (Throw in garbanzo beans for a complete meal.)
• Full of Nutrients: Farro is full of vitamins and minerals including Vitamin B, immune-boosting magnesium and Vitamin E.
• Great Source Fiber: Each 1/2 c serving provides 3.5 g fiber (as compared to 2 g in quinoa of 1.8 in brown rice.)
• Low Calorie: It’ll only cost you 100 calories to consumer a filling 1/2 c portion of farro.

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Greek Style Farro Salad

 

Author: Liz DellaCroce | The Lemon Bowl

Nutrition Information

• Serves: 4

• Serving size: 1
• Calories: 144

• Fat: 3.2g
• Saturated fat: .6g
• Carbohydrates: 31.4g
• Sodium: 158mg
• Fiber: 4.7g
• Protein: 6.4g
• Cholesterol: 2mg

Recipe type: Appetiser

Cuisine: Greek

Cook time:  20 mins

Total time:  20 mins

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Ingredients

• 2 c farro – cooked
• 1 c tomato – diced
• 1 c cucumber – seeded and diced
• 5 jumbo kalamata olives – pits removed, minced
• 1 oz feta – crumbled
• ¼ c scallions – diced
• 3 tbs fresh dill – minced
• Zest and juice of one lemon

Instructions

1. Prepare farro according to package directions and set aside to cool.
2. In a medium bowl, mix together all ingredients. Add salt and pepper to taste although I didn’t need any salt due to the olives and cheese.

Notes

Tip: Similar to pasta, if you want flavorful farro, you must salt the cooking water.)

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