Boost your nutrition this Winter with our versatile grain salad! Big on flavour and packing serious protein, fibre and minerals! This salad could be a show stopper alongside slow roasted meat for Sunday dinner or put it on rotation for weekday lunches. Either way its a tasty combo thats full of goodness to keep you healthy this Winter. Plus its customisable - don't like beetroot, swap for roast potato, don't have access to persimmons use apple or pears.
For the Salad You'll need:
- 1 cup of cooked frekkah/farro/brown rice (ideally cooked in stock for maximum flavour)
- 1 head of broccoli cut into small florets and oven roasted until tender
- 2 medium beetroot roasted and cut into thin wedges (sub other roasted root vegetable of preference)
- handful each of coriander, parsley and mint finely diced
- 2 handfuls of spinach
- 1/2 block of fetta crumbled
- 1/2 cup of our Spiced Seed & Nut mix
- 1 Fuyu Persimmon or 1 firm Pear sliced into thin batons
For the Raspberry Vinaigrette You'll need:
- 3TBSP of Hazelnut or Walnut oil
- 1TBSP raspberry vinegar
- 1tsp of seeded mustard
- salt & pepper to taste
- Optional: 2tsp of Elderglen Signature Elderberry Syrup (gives a touch of sweetness, immune boost and rich purple/pink colour)
Method:
- In jar or jug combine all Vinaigrette ingredients and whisk until combined
- Add grain, chopped herbs, broccoli and spinach into a large serving bowl. Add 2/3 of vinaigrette and mix until combined
- Keep in large serving bowl or add grain and green veggie mix to individual bowls then layer on other ingredients finishing with a sprinkle of toasted nuts and seeds, Fetta and more vinaigrette