This Monday I decided to have a little fun with my post. With so many family members dropping in and out, the need to feed them can seem ever ending. I created this hearty salad full of powerhouse veggies sure enough to please all of your guests. Combining wild rice, Farro, squash, kale, walnuts & pumpkin seeds you’ve pretty much got every vitamin covered. Bonus: it’s Vegetarian, Gluten free & Vegan.
Please join Tina Muir and I as we link up with some great Holiday Meatless Monday dishes.
Wild n’ Nutty “Family” Holiday Salad-Meatless Monday
Recipe Type: Meatless Main dish or Holiday side
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With wild rice, Farro, squash, cranberry, kale, pumpkin seeds you’ve got one great super food salad
Ingredients
- 1 C Brown Wild Rice (prepare as directed)
- 1 C Farro (prepare as directed)
- 12 oz Butternut Squash-cubed
- 1 1/2 C Baby Kale-coarsely chopped (can sub spinach)
- 1/4 C Olive Oil
- 1/4 C Apple Cider vinegar
- 1/2 C Pumpkin seeds
- 1/2 C chopped Walnuts
- 1/2 C dried Cranberries
Instructions
- Prepare Farro & Wild rice as directed set aside
- Preheat oven to 375
- Roast squash with drizzle of Olive oil, salt & pepper until tender
- In a large bowl combine: Farro, Wild Rice, squash, pumpkin seeds, walnuts, cranberries, and kale
- Drizzle on Olive oil and vinegar
- Season with kosher salt & pepper
- Serve room temp or chilled
This satisfying, healthy salad is sure to please whoever drops by this Holiday Season & also makes a great party dish. Hope you enjoy!
What’s on your Holiday Menu? Do you have lots of family visiting?
I love walnuts added to dishes! I bought a cheddar cheese from TJ’s this week with walnuts in it. Still not sure how I feel about it yet. Thanks for another great recipe to try 🙂
Ooh that sounds good too. Cheese is my weakness-and chocolate 🙂
Great choice! This is right up my alley! I love meals like this! YUM!
Thanks! It was very tasty and good hot or cold the next day.
I’ve only made a few recipes with Farro. Yum! This gives me an excuse to use it again. Not that I need an excuse 🙂
I always forget about farro but it’s really good and good for you too!
Me too!
I’ll be back this evening to visit all of the link ups. I didn’t forget 🙂
Thanks! No worries have a great day
Yum! I was looking for a side dish for the holidays and this may be a winner because it has all my favorite ingredients.
It does have everything! Thanks and I hope you all enjoy it. It’s good cold as a salad the next day too!
i love a good crunch to a meal! this looks fab and so nourishing!
Thanks! It had crunch and texture-the perfect combo!
Looks delish as usual!!!
Aw thanks! Hope you give it a try-it was really good
So much goodness in there–love love love all the flavors (and the use of ACV lol).
Thanks! ACV is my go to for lots of salads. I really like the zing you get from it and it’s so healthy too.
This looks so good! I love butternut squash and grain salads! Awesome job, this is so creative!
Thanks! I love all the grains too-so filling and so healthy. Hope you enjoy
Squash has become my new go to lately. Oh and Kale I’ll eat in anything, I’ve been replacing spinach in recipes with it. Great Link up!
Thanks! I’ve really been loving squash and kale recipes too this fall.
Mmm. I used to love love love FARRO but alas, can no longer eat it. It is so filling and tasty. Great looking salad.
Thanks! Perhaps you could make it with just the wild rice and it would still be yummy!
This looks absolutely delicious! The perfect side dish for any meal!
Thanks it really was yummy and also good cold the next day as a salad.
We’ve recently been using a lot of farro in our recipes. It’s such a delicious grain, I’m surprised more people don’t know about it!
I know! It’s really good isn’t it? Hope you enjoy this one
This looks like such delicious healthy comfort food! I love that there’s butternut squash in here — definitely a fan!
It was so good! Hope you give it a try
That looks so good! Thank you for sharing, I will have to make this for sure, and once again for hosting!! I was up until 2am with blog issues (ended up being my internet service having issues with a few servers one of which my blog was on) worried I wouldn’t be able to make my post, and having to add the Meatless Monday icon this morning.
Ah that happened to me once! stressful indeed but glad you made it we love to have you join us.
Confession: I don’t even know what Farro is! Lol, off to google it.
Ha ha it’s a whole grain which I assume you now know! I find it very tasty like a barley texture. If you give it a try let me know if you like it.
wow, this looks AMAZING!! so yummy.
Thanks! Let me know if you give it a try. I am all about the butternut squash these days. I have to find something new next month.
what a beautiful salad! I will admit I don’t know what farro is though ! I will have to look that up- I do like a challenge!
Ok so did you look it up? It’s really good kind of like barley texture and very healthy!
I don’t think I’ve ever had a dish where rice was cold. I bet it’s still tasty.
I love to eat it the next day at room temp it’s really good hope you give it a try.
You always do have some incredibly great dishes! You’ve got a few of my favorites in this, I love things will Walnuts & pumpkin seeds:)
me too! Hope you give it a try.
This looks so good! Another fantastic recipe you shared! Thank you! 🙂
Thanks! It really came out very tasty-enjoy!
you always come up with the best recipes! you should think about doing a cookbook! i’d buy it! 🙂
Ha I will hold you to it!!
This is a great salad idea! I love the addition of the squash! It’s one of my new favorite foods!!! 😉
You have some of the most creative meatless dishes around. With such a full plate who would miss the meat?
Ah thanks! I don’t think anyone would miss the meat in this one at all.
YUM!! Pining this one!! Love butternut squash and farro– who am I kidding love everything about this recipe!!
Thanks so much! It is a great make ahead and eat all week recipe. Hope you give it a try.
Hi Deborah! This is my first time stopping by, and wow I love all the color. Not only on your blog but also in the food pictures. That salad looks like quite the healthy addition. I’ve never been much for meatless Mondays, but a dish like that could change my ways. Thanks for sharing! 🙂
Well thanks so much for all of the above! I am so glad that you stopped by and I hope to see you again. I promise you won’t miss the meat in this one at all. 🙂
I love how vibrant, beautiful AND tasty this looks! Awesome combo of ingredients!
Thanks! I think you would like it 🙂
This looks delicious, I would prob leave out the squash…texture issue for me. But I love everything else about it! My parents are visiting for 10 days over the holidays! Can’t wait!
It was a great combo of ingredients hope you give it a try. I am sure you could sub the squash-maybe broccoli. Have fun with the parents!
Yum, this sounds simple and delicious. I’ve never tried farro before. Can you find it easily at the grocery store?
They definitely have Farro and whole foods and TJ and prob at your regular grocery store. Hope you like it! It’s kind of like barley texture.
Another awesome salad for me to try! I just bought farro a few weeks ago and am really excited that you posted this as I need more ideas on what to do with it. This looks so good! YUM!
Thanks! I really like Farro it’s very satisfying and healthy-enjoy!
My family eats a lot of rice, and this looks like a great way to dress it up!
oh it is so much better than plain rice. I’ve been eating it for 3 days-yummy!
What is farro? Is it a grain? A vegetable? Where would I find it in a grocery store?
It is a whole grain similar to barley in texture. They have at many grocery stores and at whole foods and trader joes. If you can’t find it, you could use barley too.