Winter Grain Salad with Raspberry Vinaigrette

June 11, 2025

Boost your nutrition this Winter with our versatile grain salad! Big on flavour and packing serious protein, fibre and minerals! This salad could be a show stopper alongside slow roasted meat for Sunday dinner or put it on rotation for weekday lunches. Either way its a tasty combo thats full of goodness to keep you healthy this Winter. Plus its customisable - don't like beetroot, swap for roast potato, don't have access to persimmons use apple or pears.

For the Salad You'll need:

1 cup of cooked frekkah/farro/brown rice (ideally cooked in stock for maximum flavour)
1 head of broccoli cut into small florets and oven roasted until tender
2 medium beetroot roasted and cut into thin wedges (sub other roasted root vegetable of preference)
handful each of coriander, parsley and mint finely diced
2 handfuls of spinach
1/2 block of fetta crumbled
1/2 cup of our Spiced Seed & Nut mix
1 Fuyu Persimmon or 1 firm Pear sliced into thin batons

For the Raspberry Vinaigrette You'll need:

3TBSP of Hazelnut or Walnut oil
1TBSP raspberry vinegar
1tsp of seeded mustard
salt & pepper to taste
Optional: 2tsp of Elderglen Signature Elderberry Syrup (gives a touch of sweetness, immune boost and rich purple/pink colour)

Method:

In jar or jug combine all Vinaigrette ingredients and whisk until combined
Add grain, chopped herbs, broccoli and spinach into a large serving bowl. Add 2/3 of vinaigrette and mix until combined
Keep in large serving bowl or add grain and green veggie mix to individual bowls then layer on other ingredients finishing with a sprinkle of toasted nuts and seeds, Fetta and more vinaigrette