Delicious way to prepare farro, with refreshing mint, dried fruit and more!
Farro Dried Fruit Garbanzo Salad
Servings
10 Servings
Ingredients
- For Salad
- 3 cups farro cooked in salted water, yielding 6 cup
- 1/2 cup dried cranberries
- 1/2 cup dried apricot — diced 1/4
- 1/2 cup Golden raisins
- 1/2 cup pinenuts — toasted
- 1 1/2 cups garbanzo beans cooked
- 1 cup cinnamon citrus vinaigrette see below
- 1/2 cup fresh mint choppedFor Cinnamon Citrus Vinaigrette
- 1/4 cup lemon juice
- 2 fluid ounces orange juice
- 3/8 Tbsp cinnamon
- 3/4 Tbsp orange zest blanched
- 3/8 Tbsp Lemon zest
- 5/8 fluid ounce honey
- 8 3/8 fluid ounces olive oil
Instructions
Preparation
- 1 Cook farro in boiling salted water until tender to the bite.2 Drain, toss with dried fruits while still hot. Cool.3 When cool, toss with vinaigrette, garbanzo beans, mint & pinenuts.
- Source: Recipe courtesy of Chef Paul Lynch and www.wholegrainscouncil.org
does anyone know what farro is called in Israel?
It is called farro, but it is very hard to find, I have only seen it on occasion at specialty or health food stores.