{"id":34623,"date":"2020-11-15T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T20:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/closedloopcooking.com\/?p=34623"},"modified":"2021-05-27T07:26:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T14:26:50","slug":"winter-grain-roasted-broccoli-salad-with-orange-shallot-vinaigrette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/closedloopcooking.com\/winter-grain-roasted-broccoli-salad-with-orange-shallot-vinaigrette\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter grain + roasted broccoli salad with orange shallot vinaigrette"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Roasted broccoli (stalk included) pairs perfectly with peppery French lentils and sweet, tender squash. A concentrated citrus dressing balances out the delightful spicy bitterness of the raw radicchio while refreshing celery and savory seeds add a crunch factor (necessary to all salads, imho). All grounded in hearty, chewy barley and topped with tart cranberries. What’s not to love?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If serving chilled as written here, take good care not to overcook your ingredients and ensure they cool completely before assembling the salad (otherwise they will come apart too much when mixed together). This also makes an excellent warm grain bowl! I suggest swapping out the olive oil in the dressing for tahini<\/a> or another nut\/seed butter if you give it a try. And make sure you save your squash seeds for toasting<\/a> later!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why not switch up ingredients? Make the most of what you have on hand with your favorite grain instead of barley, chickpeas<\/a> instead of lentils, sweet potato instead of squash, cauliflower (with roasted leaves included) instead of broccoli, endive instead of radicchio. You get the idea\u2013this is very customizable and makes for a great use-it-up recipe template at the end of the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This bright, grain-based winter salad boasts a bounty of seasonal ingredients and has definitely been making the gray days more colorful lately. Full of seasonal produce finds, this cold weather fare is a great way to use up all your brassica (looking at you florets and stalks.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":34625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"Winter grain + roasted broccoli salad with orange shallot vinaigrette | Closed Loop Cooking","_seopress_titles_desc":"This bright, grain-based winter salad boasts a bounty of seasonal ingredients and has definitely been making the gray days more colorful lately.","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[581,249],"tags":[362,807,312,331],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/closedloopcooking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/closedloopcooking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/closedloopcooking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/closedloopcooking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/closedloopcooking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/closedloopcooking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/closedloopcooking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/closedloopcooking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/closedloopcooking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/closedloopcooking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}