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.

Farro and Roasted Pepper Salad

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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.

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...

Lidia Bastianich's Farro with Tuna and Tomatoes

Lidia Bastianich doesn't traffic in trends, so I knew that this recipe in Lidia's Italy wasn't just thrown in to capitalize on farro's recent surge in healthy appeal. As she writes in the caption, it actually came from a restaurant called Le Lampare in Trani, Italy. The tuna, caper, and tomato sauce would probably go well with about any pasta shape (I certainly wouldn't mind it), but seems to really come alive when paired with the farro.

Pear Salad with blue cheese

Pear Salad with a stellar combination of flavours - pear, creamy blue cheese, walnuts, pepper rocket/arugula and honey mustard dressing.

Roasted Pear Salad With Endive, Blue Cheese, and Hazelnut

This hearty, sweet, and savory salad combines roasted pears with bitter endive, rich blue cheese, and toasted hazelnut. It's the perfect salad for either the autumn or wintry weather.

Kale Salad With Oven-Dried Grapes, Toasted Walnuts, and Blue Cheese

The blue cheese, dried fruit, and nuts in this kale salad are a classic ingredient combination, but the pairing is made extraordinary here thanks to oven-dried grapes, which remain plumper and juicier than conventional raisins. Oil-rubbing the kale leaves, meanwhile, tenderizes them just enough. The result is a deeply familiar set of flavors, made better.

Alice Waters' Whole Wheat Pasta with Tomato Vinaigrette

Alice Waters consistently find ways to improve uncomplicated recipes without losing their spirit of simplicity; here the garlic-vinegar mixture plays the role of acid in this tomato "vinaigrette" and helps complement the same acidity in the tomatoes—part of what makes them taste so excellent.