{"id":371,"date":"2012-05-18T23:45:30","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T06:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greencarrotclub.com\/?p=371"},"modified":"2012-05-18T23:45:30","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T06:45:30","slug":"tomato-mozzarella-farro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greencarrotclub.com\/?p=371","title":{"rendered":"Tomato Mozzarella Farro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greencarrotclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/LR-0349-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-373\" title=\"LR-0349 small\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greencarrotclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/LR-0349-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greencarrotclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/LR-0349-small.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.greencarrotclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/LR-0349-small-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The key to farro is to not over cook it or under cook it. \u00a0This salad is pretty filling with the farro and the cheese, but this means I didn&#8217;t have to find a snack later in the day, which sometimes happens. \u00a0I love anything with fresh mozzarella, which, by the way, is very affordable at Trader Joe&#8217;s, and very not affordable at Safeway.<\/p>\n<p>Ingredients<\/p>\n<p>makes 5 servings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 cups uncooked farro<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1 medium red onion, cut in half<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1 garlic clove<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">handful of fresh parsley plus 1 tablespoon finely chopped<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1\/2 teaspoon salt<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1 cup finely diced (1\/4&#8243;cubes) fresh mozzarella cheese<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2 teaspoons minced pitted kalamata olives<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1 pint grape tomatoes, halved<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh basil<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1 package of spinach<\/span><\/li>\n<li>freshly ground pepper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dressing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1\/4 cup extra virgin olive oil<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon balsamic vinegar<\/li>\n<li>1 tablespoon red wine vinegar<\/li>\n<li>2 teaspoons honey<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Add the farro, one onion half, garlic, handful of parsley and salt along with 2 3\/4 cups water to a 2 quart pot. \u00a0Bring to a boil, then cover, reduce to a simmer, and cook for 10 minutes. Turn off burner and let sit, covered, for 5 more minutes. \u00a0Discard the onion, garlic and large pieces of parsley. \u00a0Spread out on a rimmed sheet pan and let cool completely (do not skip this step or the mozzarella will melt into the finished dish). \u00a0Or, if serving the next day, just store in the refrigerator.<\/p>\n<p>Whisk together the olive oil, vinegars and honey to prepare the dressing. \u00a0Chop the remaining onion half finely. \u00a0Add onion, cooled farro, mozzarella, kalamata olives, tomatoes, remaining tablespoon of parsley and basil to a deep bowl. \u00a0Pour the dressing over the ingredients and stir well to combine. \u00a0Season with salt and pepper. \u00a0Serve on top of a bed of spinach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The key to farro is to not over cook it or under cook it. \u00a0This salad is pretty filling with the farro and the cheese, but this means I didn&#8217;t have to find a snack later in the day, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarrotclub.com\/?p=371\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greencarrotclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greencarrotclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greencarrotclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greencarrotclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greencarrotclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greencarrotclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/www.greencarrotclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greencarrotclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greencarrotclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greencarrotclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}