Salad

Wheat berry salad is for Salad.

Wheat berry salad takes several minutes to prepare.

Wheat berry salad takes several minutes to cook.

Wheat berry salad makes 4 servings.

The ingredients for Wheat berry salad are:

2 cups cooked wheat berries (1 cup uncooked)
1 can whole beets, cut in chunks
1 cucumber, cut in chunks
1 apple, unpeeled and cut in chunks
1 orange, peeled and just the segements (reserve the juice for the dressing)

Dressing
1tbs walnut oil
juice from the orange above (reserved from creating segments)
2 tsp dijon mustard
1 tsp herbs du provence or other herbs you like

Here is how you make Wheat berry salad:

Prepare wheat berries, by taking 1 cup of wheat berries and placing them in a pot of simmering water, with a bit of salt, for about 1 1/2 hours til the berries are tender and chewy.(they can also be done in a crock pot on low for abot 8 hours if you're making a larger batch - wheat berries are a great rice replacement -they're nutty and chewy and wonderfully satisfying.)When the berries are done...Peel the orange with a knife removing the rind, and individually removing the segments, so you just have the orange an dno membrane.Squeeze the orange membrane to extract the juice into a bowl.Add in the mustard, and herbs du provence.Add the walnut oil and whiskChop up and apple and put i bowl w/ dressingChop up beets, and put in the same bowlChop up cucumber and put i the same bowlAdd orange supremes to bowl Add wheat berries and toss gentlyRefrigerate for about 30 minutes and serve in lettuce cups or asa side dish.Number of Servings: 4Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user MALEFICENT1964.

The nutritional information for Wheat berry salad is:

• Servings Per Recipe: 4
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 259.0

• Total Fat: 4.7 g
• Cholesterol: 0.0 mg
• Sodium: 211.5 mg
• Total Carbs: 47.0 g
• Dietary Fiber: 7.8 g
• Protein: 6.9 g