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Warm Mushroom and Farro Salad with Skirt Steak

January 30, 2012 By Laura 1 Comment

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Warm Steak and Farro Salad with Mushrooms and Shaved Parmesan

Can anyone guess what my favorite new ingredient is?

warm farro and mushroom salad

It’s just so delectably chewy. And it seems to be flexible enough to go with anything–I have a great Asian inspired dish coming soon that I used farro with instead of rice and it was wonderful.  This, however, is a more traditional take on farro.

Grilled Skirt Steak for Farro Salad

I want to point out as well that despite the delicious skirt steak that I used for this recipe, you could just as easily choose to not top it with anything or top it with marinated and seared tofu for a vegetarian take.  Or a roast pork tenderloin.  Anything, really.

Warm Steak and Farro Salad with Mushrooms and Shaved Parm

So about the “recipe.”  I had one of those evenings where I did not write anything down, but here is the general idea:  I sautéed onions and garlic in olive oil, added chopped crimini mushrooms in batches to brown, added zucchini, and then deglazed with a decent amount of red wine which I then reduced.  Maybe 1 cup to half cup?  I also added some low sodium beef stock, maybe 1 cup, and let it reduce down.  Salt and pepper to taste and then I added the farro, which had been cooked in beef stock and water.  Toss it all together and serve with sliced green onions, a drizzle of Balsamic vinegar and shaved Parmesam or Asiago.  Serve grilled steak on top of it.

 

Filed Under: balsamic, beef, easily made vegetarian, Farro, mushrooms, steak, whole grains, zucchini

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  1. Viviane Bauquet Farre / Food and Style says

    February 1, 2012 at 12:55 pm

    Farro is high up on my list of favorite ingredient too… Your salad is superb. I love the mushrooms and red wine – just delicious!

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Hi! I’m Laura and I am a recovering history major who has re-channeled all of my passion for learning about the history of different countries to learning about their food culture. That doesn’t mean every dish on here is strictly authentic, but it does mean that even my adaptations are not undertaken lightly. My goal is to show you–by doing–that these dishes are possible in your kitchen. Including desserts because I have quite the sweet tooth! Read More…

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