Instant Pot Scarlet Farro Salad | Food Under Pressure
Instant Pot Scarlet Farro Salad is healthy, hearty and delicious!
This is one of those dishes you can prep on a Sunday and snack on all week! I work from home, so I love preparing food on Sunday that I can easily grab and eat.
This Instant Pot Farro Salad features beets! I absolutely love beets! If you think you don’t, try them mixed with the delicious ingredients of this salad and I bet you’ll change your mind.
The Simply Tangy Balsamic Vinaigrette in this salad is EVERYTHING – so many flavors and it brings everything together. Its homemade vinaigrette made SO EASY. Seriously, just add ingredients to a tupperware and shake, or to a bowl and whisk – literally, it takes 2 minutes!
Beautiful, healthy ingredients!
Farro – ever heard of or tasted farro before? If not, literally run to the store right now to buy some. It is so, so good. The texture is somewhere between rice and barley. It cooks in 15 minutes and you can’t mess it up like you can (like I always do) rice.
An essential tool to cooking farro: a wire strainer — the little morsels may fall right through your average plastic strainer.
This grain is not only healthy, but it is delicious, filling and satisfying — and, what I like most about it, it is DIFFERENT! Most people don’t use it, therefore most people are seriously missing OUT! When I cook and eat something like farro, I swear it just speaks to and fills my soul (and my belly!) Beets also speak to my soul – you should allow this recipe to speak to yours!
The varieties can really be endless — You could make a cold salad out of farro just like you can pasta. Today, allow me to introduce the stunningly delicious Instant Pot Scarlet Farro Salad.
- 1 lb smoked sausage sliced on a bias, 1/2 inch
- 1 lb medium shrimp peeled, de-headed & de-veined
- 1 med onion diced
- 3 stalks celery diced
- 1 med red pepper diced
- 3 cloves garlic minced
- 1 can petite diced tomatoes including all juice
- 1 1/4 cup long grain white rice rinsed
- 3/4 cup water or stock
- 1 tsp cajun seasoning
- 1/2-1 tsp salt your preference
- 1/2-1 tsp black pepper your preference
- 1/4 tsp cayenne optional
- 3-6 dashes Tabasco optional
- 2 scallions diced as garnish
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Cut and prepare all ingredients
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Press “Sauté” on your Instant Pot or Browning setting on other pressure cookers, and allow it to heat.
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Add onion, celery, red pepper and garlic as well as sausage and seasonings, sauté 3-4 minutes.
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Add rice, sauté another 2 minutes.
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Add tomatoes, shrimp and water. Stir gently.
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Place lid on pressure cooker and close vent.
For Instant Pot, close lid and turn Vent knob to “Sealing”
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Cook on High Pressure for 4 minutes.
For Instant Pot, Press “Manual” [High Pressure] setting, and adjust time using “+/-“ buttons.
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When cook time is complete, allow pot to naturally release pressure (NPR) for 5 minutes. Then, quickly release remaining pressure (QPR) manually by carefully opening your vent knob.
For Instant Pot, turn vent knob to “Venting”.
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Open lid, and enjoy the yummy view!
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Fluff with large fork, then serve immediately with scallion and perhaps more tabasco as garnish.
Step by Step Directions
Cook Farro using Instant Pot Farro Method
I have fine mesh strainers like these
Prepare Simply Tangy Vinaigrette
Prepare Salad ingredients
Combine ingredients
Instant Pot Scarlet Farro Salad
This healthy, hearty side dish feeds your SOUL… because this is just wholesomely, soulfully good eats!
