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.
This Instant Pot Scarlet Farro Salad is healthy, hearty and delicious! Prep on a Sunday, and enjoy it all week!
- 1 cup farro rinsed
- 2 cups water
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1-2 tsp seasonings
- 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 3 tbsp balsamic vinegar
- 2 tsp dijon mustard
- 1 tbsp water
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp pepper
- 1/4 tsp dried basil
- 1/4 tsp dried oregano
- 1/8 tsp onion powder
- 1/8 tsp garlic powder
- 1-2 pinch crushed red pepper optional
- 2 cups Instant Pot farro 1 cup uncooked farro should make about 2 cups cooked
- 1/2 cup red bell pepper diced
- 1/4 cup red onion diced
- 1/2 cup cooked beets diced
- 1/2 cup artichoke hearts large dice
- 2 tbsp lower sugar dried cranberries
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Cook Farro in Instant Pot. Add rinsed farro, water, oil and seasoning. Cook on high pressure 6 minutes and allow natural pressure release for 5 minutes, then release remaining pressure. Set aside.
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Prepare vinaigrette by combining all ingredients and whisking together well, set aside. You can sub your fave pre-made vinaigrette, about 1/3-1/2 cup.
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Combine cooked farro and vinaigrette and all remaining ingredients in a bowl. and gently combine. Cover salad and allow to chill in the fridge for at least 30-60 minutes. It is even better the next day! Enjoy!
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!
