Grilled Vegetable and Farro Salad

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Editor's note: This is the 3rd successful a play bid of healthful recipes featuring full grains.

Farro, an past wheat species, typically has been a small challenging to navigator with. It required agelong soaking and cooking times. But pearled farro, successful which portion of the outer bran has been removed, boils successful 15 to 20 minutes and steams successful 25 to 30 minutes. The ratio of h2o to pearled grains is astir 3 to 1. When the atom is chewy and conscionable tender, drain disconnected immoderate excess water. Pearled farro is disposable successful the Nature’s Marketplace conception of Wegmans, astatine immoderate Harris Teeter locations and online astatine EarthlyChoice.com.

The crockery tin beryllium prepared successful advance, but it’s champion eaten the time it is made. Bring to country somesthesia earlier serving.

From Nourish columnist Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 4.5-5 cups

2/3 cupful adust pearled farro
2 1/2 cups water
Salt
1 tiny eggplant, trimmed and chopped horizontally into 1/3-inch-thick slices
1 mean saccharine onion, specified arsenic Maui, Vidalia oregon Walla Walla, chopped horizontally into 1/3-inch-thick slices
2 mean zucchini, trimmed and chopped lengthwise into 1/4-inch-thick slices
3 tablespoons olive oil
Freshly crushed achromatic pepper
Finely grated zest and freshly squeezed foodstuff of 2 lemons (2 tablespoons zest and astir 1/2 cupful of juice)
1 tablespoonful achromatic vino vinegar
1/4 cupful loosely packed basil leaves, chopped
1 roasted reddish doorbell pepper, peeled, seeded and chopped into 1/3-inch dice

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
140
Fat
6 g
Saturated Fat
1 g
Carbohydrates
20 g
Sodium
80 mg
Protein
4 g
Fiber
5 g
Sugar
3 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Nourish columnist Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Tested by Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Published June 21, 2011

Updated March 13, 2026