Fennel, Orange, and Roasted Pepper Salad

This is a simple salad, but it's all about playing off the different flavors of Tasmanian pepper, soaked in the dressing before serving. Raw fennel's complex sweetness and astringency highlights the spice's fruitiness and pepper-like bite. Oranges magnify its hints of bright fruits and flowers, while smoky roasted red pepper lets the spice's earthiness shine. The bed of arugula gives the salad body, and its bitterness does well with Tasmanian pepper's juniper-like alpine qualities.

Farro Salad with Sizzled Dressing

A stellar farro salad with burst tomatoes, spinach, smeary goats cheese, doused in a sizzling hot garlic olive oil dressing with toasted coriander and cumin.

Smitten Kitchen's Honey and Harissa Farro Salad

It's hard to get through fall without encountering more than a few roasted vegetable salads. They're earthy, filling, and entirely seasonal. In The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook, Deb Perelman writes about a few such salads, but the one that drew my eye was her Honey and Harissa Farro Salad. I'm a big harissa fan, and the idea of tempering its spiciness with honey sounded like a perfect dressing base. But what the title of the recipes leaves out is that over half of this salad is made up of roasted ba...

Farro Salad With Blue Cheese, Pine Nuts, and Tomatoes

Farro is combined with fresh ingredients: juicy tomatoes, cucumbers, and herbs. The salad is then flavored with red wine vinaigrette, pine nuts, and crumbled blue cheese.

Warm Farro Salad With Asparagus, Peas, and Feta

This warm one-pot farro salad is loaded with tender spring peas and asparagus, along with heartier ingredients like kale and crunchy almonds. Tossed with a tangy lemon-mustard vinaigrette and briny feta cheese, it's a healthy dish that celebrates of the transition from winter to spring.

Farro Salad with Grilled Turkey, Lemon, Herbs & Feta

This recipe for farro salad with smoky grilled turkey, lemon, fresh mint and parsley, and creamy feta is a light yet satisfying, super tasty meal.

Chili Roasted Pepper Salad

A variety of peppers, zucchini, and onions are rubbed with a mix of chipotle and ancho chili powders then roasted and tossed with vinegar and Cotija cheese.

Mediterranean Chopped Salad With Tomatoes, Peppers, Feta, and Basil

A 30 minute salad of bright Mediterranean summer vegetables tossed together in a light vinaigrette with feta cheese and basil.

Charred, Oven-Roasted Carrot Salad With Feta Cheese

Caramelized oven-charred carrots are finished with tangy feta for a refreshing change of pace.

Fennel Salad

Fennel Zucchini Ribbon Salad with Mint - one of my "go to" salads that takes minutes to prepare. Wonderfully refreshing, and something a little different from the usual!