Apple Farro Salad – Emily Bites

This Apple Farro Salad tastes brilliant and recent and is ideal for a simple, wholesome lunch or meal prep thought! This salad is chock stuffed with tasty elements like crisp apples, creamy Feta cheese, crunchy sliced almonds, candy dried cranberries, peppery arugula, crunchy celery, and chewy farro, all flippantly tossed in a honey mustard French dressing. I like consuming this as a meatless lunch choice, however if you would like some added protein it’s additionally tremendous tasty with some added chopped rooster breast. I like a grain-based salad, and farro is certainly one of my favourite grains as a result of I like the nutty taste and chewy texture. It jogs my memory of barley that manner!

Not solely is that this Apple Farro Salad completely scrumptious, however every serving is simply 224 energy or 5 WW Factors on the present Weight Watchers program (or 6 Factors if following the diabetic Weight Watchers plan). To view your present WW Factors for this recipe and observe it within the WW app, click on right here!

Serving Dimension

Your entire Apple Farro Salad recipe for me made virtually 7 cups, so I made a decision to checklist this as six servings at a rounded cup every (so a 1 cup measuring cup with a bit additional on prime). In my expertise, that’s a satisfying portion for a lunch foremost course. I additionally like so as to add chopped cooked rooster breast generally for added protein!

Ingredient Notes/Substitutions

• Farro: I like farro, it’s certainly one of my favourite grains. It’s much more broadly obtainable than it was, however when you’re unable to search out it otherwise you simply need to use one thing you may have readily available, barley is pretty comparable and can be an excellent substitute.
• Apples: I like to recommend utilizing a candy and crunchy apple selection on this recipe! I used a mixture of Crispin apples (the yellow/inexperienced ones) and Ruby Frost (the pink ones) within the pictured recipe.
• Feta cheese: I like Feta cheese, and I had some leftover to make use of from making Feta and Blackberry Rooster Breasts, so it labored out completely to make use of it on this recipe. I do assume one other crumbly cheese like goat cheese or blue cheese would even be tasty.
• Dried cranberries: I like the sweet-and-tart taste of dried cranberries on this recipe, however when you don’t have them or don’t like them, raisins or dried cherries would work of their place.
• Almonds: I like the crunch the sliced almonds add to this salad! I believe pecans would even be tasty on this recipe. In the event you can’t eat nuts, be happy to omit them. You can alternatively exchange them with sunflower seeds or pumpkin seeds if you’ll be able to eat these as a substitute.
• Celery: I do know there are some celery haters on the market, so when you’re not a fan you may positively omit it. I do just like the freshness and crunch it provides!
• Vinegar: I used apple cider vinegar on this, however when you don’t have it you should utilize wine vinegar or balsamic vinegar as a substitute.
• Mustard: Be at liberty to make use of your most well-liked kind. I’ve made this with Dijon mustard and with yellow mustard and I prefer it each methods!
• Optionally available Add-In: If you’d like a bit extra protein on this, I generally like to combine in chopped cooked rooster breast as properly. It really works nice with these flavors!

Extra Tasty Salad Concepts

In search of extra tasty, lightened up salad recipes like this Apple Farro Salad? Try my Heat Butternut Squash Farro Salad, Deviled Egg Macaroni Salad, Corn and Tomato Salad, Buffalo Roasted Chickpea Salad, Mediterranean Couscous Salad, Buffalo Rooster Salad, Mexican Road Corn Rooster Salad, Greek Rooster Quinoa Salad, Broccoli Salad, Butternut Squash Quinoa Salad, and so many extra within the Salads class of my recipe index!