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Butternut Squash Farro Salad with Arugula and Cranberries

October 31, 2016 by Danae 7 Comments

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This Butternut Squash Farro Salad with Arugula and Cranberries is loaded with fall flavors! Healthy, whole grain and vegan optional, it’s the perfect side dish to add to your Thanksgiving table!

This Butternut Squash Farro Salad with Arugula and Cranberries is loaded with fall flavors! Healthy, whole grain and vegan optional, it's the perfect side dish to add to your Thanksgiving table!Happy Halloween! Sorry I’m not sharing a quick recipe you can make for the kids tonight before trick-or-treating. These Mini Spider Pizzas I made a while back would work though! Unless you’re throwing a Halloween party, invited to one or have kids, it kind of loses it’s luster when you’re an adult. It also stinks when it falls on a weeknight. Parents are rushed coming home from work trying to get the kids dressed up and fed before heading out. Then there’s those of us handing out the candy who enjoy it from about 6:30-7:30, but start to get annoyed if anyone comes to the door after 8:00…or maybe that’s just me.

This Butternut Squash Farro Salad with Arugula and Cranberries is loaded with fall flavors! Healthy, whole grain and vegan optional, it's the perfect side dish to add to your Thanksgiving table!This year we’re having nice weather for the trick-or-treaters. Halloween is always iffy in Colorado. It’s been known to snow here in October, but luckily that’s not the case this year. In fact it’s been feeling anything but fallish. I love it for running, but I also have flannel shirts, scarves and boots that want to be worn and the only thing I’m wearing lately is shorts and tank tops.

This Butternut Squash Farro Salad with Arugula and Cranberries is loaded with fall flavors! Healthy, whole grain and vegan optional, it's the perfect side dish to add to your Thanksgiving table!To keep myself in the fall mood I’ve been making lots of fall flavored recipes like this Butternut Squash Farro Salad with Arugula and Cranberries. There’s actually several more ingredients in this salad, but the recipe title would have been ridiculously long if I included them all. This salad will make a great side dish for Thanksgiving this year, can you believe it’s less than a month away? It also works great as a main dish for meatless Monday. If you skip the ricotta salata cheese that I used, it also becomes a vegan friendly salad.

This Butternut Squash Farro Salad with Arugula and Cranberries is loaded with fall flavors! Healthy, whole grain and vegan optional, it's the perfect side dish to add to your Thanksgiving table!This Butternut Squash Farro Salad with Arugula and Cranberries includes many of the ingredients I love using the most in fall. Roasted butternut squash, dried cranberries, toasted pepitas, I add them to almost all of my salads. Instead of using rice or quinoa I decided to go with farro. If you’ve never had farro it’s a chewy grain similar in texture and flavor to wheat berries. I absolutely love this whole grain and it’s chewiness is perfect in this salad. The salad is dressed in a light vinaigrette that is sweetened with maple syrup for even more fall flavor. With Halloween out of the way it’s time to start thinking about Thanksgiving and this farro salad definitely needs to make an appearance on your table!

Butternut Squash Farro Salad with Arugula and Cranberries

Butternut Squash Farro Salad with Arugula and Cranberries

Yield: 4 servings
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 50 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 5 minutes

Ingredients

Butternut Squash Farro Salad with Arugula and Cranberries

  • 1 cup uncooked farro
  • 1 butternut squash, peeled, seeds removed and diced (about 3 cups)
  • Kosher salt and fresh ground black pepper
  • 1/3 cup dried cranberries
  • 1/3 cup ricotta salata
  • 1/4 cup toasted unsalted pepitas
  • 3 cups arugula

Vinaigrette

  • 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon water
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons pure maple syrup
  • 3 tablespoons minced shallot
  • Kosher salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste

Instructions

Butternut Squash Farro Salad with Arugula and Cranberries

  1. Cook the farro according to package instructions and cool to room temperature.
  2. Preheat oven to 400 degrees and line a baking sheet with foil.
  3. Spray or drizzle the diced butternut squash with olive oil and season with kosher salt and black pepper.
  4. Toss to coat then place the squash in the oven and roast for 20-30 minutes or until tender and lightly browned.
  5. Cool the squash then add it to the salad with the remaining salad ingredients.
  6. Toss everything together with the vinaigrette and serve.

Vinaigrette

  1. Whisk together all of the ingredients for the vinaigrette and let it sit for 10 minutes before adding it to the salad.

Notes

If you plan to make the salad in advance, wait to add the arugula, pepitas and vinaigrette until right before serving to prevent them from becoming wilted or soggy.

Nutrition Information:
Yield: 4 Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 361 Total Fat: 8g Saturated Fat: 2g Trans Fat: 0g Unsaturated Fat: 5g Cholesterol: 7mg Sodium: 379mg Carbohydrates: 65g Fiber: 11g Sugar: 18g Protein: 12g
© Danae
Category: Salad

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This Butternut Squash Farro Salad with Arugula and Cranberries is loaded with fall flavors! Healthy, whole grain and vegan optional, it's the perfect side dish to add to your Thanksgiving table!

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Filed Under: Salad, Side Dishes Tagged With: arugula, Butternut Squash, dried cranberries, fall, farro, pepitas, ricotta salata, Salad, side dish, thanksgiving

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Comments

  1. Rachel @ Baked by Rachel

    October 31, 2016 at 4:48 am

    Such a beautiful salad! I definitely need this for lunch today!
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  2. Katie | Healthy Seasonal Recipes

    October 31, 2016 at 4:49 am

    I'm falling into the camp of rushing to get the kids dressed. We live up in the sticks so nobody comes by our house for trick-or-treats. I laughed out loud about the comment that you couldn't name all of the ingredients or your recipe title would be way too long. I can so relate. This salad is so gorgeous Danae. I love it!
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  3. Vivian | stayaliveandcooking

    October 31, 2016 at 6:30 am

    Looks delicious! I'm always looking for salad recipes to enjoy now that summer is over, and this fits the fall-salad description perfectly. I live in an apartment so we don't get any trick or treaters at the door.... At least, last year we didn't. Who knows what will happen this year ;)
    Reply
  4. Marye

    October 31, 2016 at 9:07 am

    This salad looks perfect for a light lunch! Delicious!
    Reply
  5. Jessica @ A Kitchen Addiction

    October 31, 2016 at 5:43 pm

    This is my kind of salad! I need to add this to our Thanksgiving menu!
    Reply
  6. Taylor Kiser

    October 31, 2016 at 7:00 pm

    This is a gorgeous salad! Will be a great addition to the Thanksgiving menu!
    Reply
  7. Maria

    October 31, 2016 at 8:44 pm

    I gotta make this! Delicious for Thanksgiving!
    Reply

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