This Mediterranean Farro Salad Recipe is just 141 calories and can be made in just 20 minutes!
We love this farro recipe for Mediterranean salad as a side dish. And as a bonus, you can serve it hot or cold. So make extras for side dishes all week long!
Thanks to our low calorie (and low oil) Mediterranean salad dressing, we were able to cut 100’s of calories without sacrificing flavor of serving size.
Try this yummy sun dried tomato salad for potlucks, picnic lunches, or meal prep it for dinner sides all week long.
This Mediterranean Farro Salad Recipe is just 141 calories and can be made in just 20 minutes!
Mediterranean Farro Salad Recipe
This article will supply you with everything you’ll need to make a low calorie farro recipe for Mediterranean salad.
From a shopping list, to a printable recipe card. You’ll find a nutrition label, vegan swaps for summer farro salad and more in the sections below.
To make this farro Mediterranean salad recipe easy, we’ve supplied you with the following sections.
Read through them for helpful resources, or skip ahead to the recipe card.
What You’ll Find in this Article:
- Mediterranean Farro Salad Ingredients (shopping list!)
- How to Make Farro Salad Recipes
- Mediterranean Farro Salad Recipe (recipe card!)
- Nutrition and Calories in Farro Salad with Feta
Helpful Tip for Shopping: Take a screenshot of the shopping list to your phone. This way you have it at your fingertips the next time you go grocery shopping.
Recipe Card Uses: You can email yourself this recipe card so you can easily search for it (I have a folder in my email just for recipes!) Or print it so you have it handy, and can make notes. You can even pin this healthy greek farro salad to Pintrest so it is safely stored for you.
Up next, a shopping list for our easy farro salad recipe…
Mediterranean Farro Salad Ingredients
This farro salad Mediterranean side dish is packed full of flavor… it never disappoints!
And it’s hard to beat a sun dried tomatoes recipe with feta. Both of the ingredients have so much flavor and add so much complexity to a salad recipe!
Shopping list for The Best Farro Salad:
- Chicken or vegetable broth
- Uncooked farro
- Olive oil spray
- Cherry tomatoes
- Small yellow onion
- Garlic clove
- Sun-dried tomatoes
- Pine nuts
- Feta cheese
- Fresh parsley
- Homemade Greek Dressing
Special Tip: You can find all the measurements in the recipe card below. There you can choose how many servings of this low calorie salad farro recipe vegetarian you want to make. It will do all the measurement math for you! All of the ingredients for these salad farro recipe ideas can be doubled or tripled with the click of a button.
Up next, how to make our healthy pine nut salad with farro and feta…
How to Make Farro Salad Recipes
This feta cheese salad with farro and sun-dried tomatoes makes an easy and quick side dish or lunch salad.
You can meal prep it ahead of time, it’s just as good hot as it is cold. We like to make a double batch for meal prep lunches all week.
How to Make The Best Ever Farro Salad:
- In a medium sauce pan, combine the farrow and broth. Stir together and cook according to the package.
- Meanwhile, heat a skillet over medium-high heat. Spray with olive oil and add the cherry tomatoes and onion.
- Cook for 5 minutes until the tomatoes start to pop. Add in the garlic, sun dried tomatoes, and pine nuts. Cook for 2-3 minutes, until the garlic is fragrant, then remove from the heat and set aside.
- When the farro is cooked to al dente, drain off any excess liquid, and cool for 10 minutes.
- Transfer farro to a large mixing bowl, along with the tomato mixture, feta, parsley and dressing. Toss well until the dressing is well distributed.
- Serve hot, or cover and refrigerate for 2 hours for a cold farro salad.
Special Tip: You can find these directions, along with measurements, nutrition and more in the sharable recipe card in the next section!
Up next, a sharable recipe card for the best farro salad recipe…
Mediterranean Farro Salad Recipe
This easy farro recipe makes a great side dish or main course. Farro recipes are hearty and filling, making this flavorful feta salad a great satisfying dish.
You can have 1/2 cup of farro salad for just 141 calories, or more as a main course. It’s just as good hot as it is cold, so make extras and enjoy as a meal prep cold lunch or side dish all week long.
Mediterranean Farro Salad Recipe (JUST 141 CALORIES)
Ingredients
- 3 cups chicken or vegetable broth
- 1 cup uncooked farro rinsed and drained
- Olive oil spray
- 1 pint cherry tomatoes
- 1 small yellow onion chopped
- 1 garlic clove minced
- 1/4 cup sun-dried tomatoes minced
- 1/8 cup pine nuts
- 1/3 cup feta cheese crumbled
- 1/4 cup fresh parsley leaves minced
- 1/3 cup Homemade Greek Dressing
Instructions
- In a medium sauce pan, combine the farrow and broth. Stir together and cook according to the package.
- Meanwhile, heat a skillet over medium-high heat. Spray with olive oil and add the cherry tomatoes and onion.
- Cook for 5 minutes until the tomatoes start to pop. Add in the garlic, sun dried tomatoes, and pine nuts. Cook for 2-3 minutes, until the garlic is fragrant, then remove from the heat and set aside.
- When the farro is cooked to al dente, drain off any excess liquid, and cool for 10 minutes.
- Transfer farro to a large mixing bowl, along with the tomato mixture, feta, parsley and dressing. Toss well until the dressing is well distributed.
- Serve hot, or cover and refrigerate for 2 hours for a cold farro salad.
Nutrition
Nutrition and Calories in Farro Salad with Feta
The nutrition and calories for farro salad are based off the recipe above, in a 1/2 cup serving.
Please see the recipe card for vegan modifications. Unfortunately farro does have gluten in it, so this is not a gluten-free recipe.
Important Note: As a reminder, at Lose Weight By Eating it is our goal to make you healthier, all-natural versions of your favorite recipes… not all will be “diet worthy” depending on the diet you are on. But they will be healthier versions to help curb your cravings.
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