Easy Grain Salad

This Easy Grain Salad is packed with whole grains, herbs, and is bursting with juicy pomegranate seeds! Toss it together for a quick and delicious side dish.

 

Easy Grain Salad

You know how there are just some ingredients you never cook with? Ingredients that you’ve heard of, you know other people use regularly, but it’s just not in your routine of cooking? For me, that ingredient was bulgur. Was it rice? Was it pasta? After making this orzo salad, which was also different, I thought it was time to find out more about using bulgur.

I didn’t understand the stuff, and thus didn’t cook with it. Which is why last year I decided to spotlight bulgur on my blog as a way of learning to cook with it, and the results were so easy and tasty and whole grainy!

ANOTHER RECIPE YOU MIGHT LIKE: Tuna Pasta Salad

We made a Bulgur Breakfast Bake and Bulgur Falafel, but if there’s one recipe everyone really knows how to use bulgur in, it’s tabbouleh. Tabbouleh is a simple salad of chopped herbs and bulgur, and is the inspiration behind this Easy Holiday Grain Salad!

The hardest part of making this salad is probably in boiling the bulgur (i.e. it’s really not that difficult at all!) We’ll cook the bulgur in vegetable broth to give it an extra boost of flavor.

Then just toss together the cooked bulgur with herbs, feta, raisins, and pomegranate. I love how the sharp and creamy feta combines with the sweet raisins and tart pomegranate seeds.

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To make this Easy Grain Salad you’ll need:

• 1 cup bulgur
• 2 cups vegetable broth
• ½ cup pomegranate arils
• ¼ cup finely chopped mint
• ¼ cup finely chopped parsley
• ¼ cup crumbled feta cheese
• ¼ cup raisins
• 2 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• 1 Tbsp lemon juice
• ¼ tsp each salt and pepper

Kitchen tools you may find useful:

• Large serving bowl
• Salad tongs
• Measuring cups and spoons
• Cutting board

Every bite of this holiday grain salad ends up being a slightly different combination of ingredients and flavors, keeping you coming back for seconds (and thirds!)

Don’t miss our pomegranate sangria for your holiday party! Loaded with apples, oranges, pomegranate and cinnamon, this holiday cocktail is one to please a crowd!

And last but not least, if there’s one unique and delicious gift you should give this holiday season, it’s this Crunchy Popcorn Chocolate Bark wrapped up in a festive container! Happy holidays!

Easy Grain Salad

This Easy Grain Salad is packed with whole grains, herbs, and is bursting with juicy pomegranate seeds! Toss it together for a quick and delicious side dish.

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Course: Sides

Cuisine: Mediterranean

Servings: 4 servings

20 minutes mins

Calories: 260

Author: Amanda Davis

Ingredients

• ▢ 1 cup bulgur
• ▢ 2 cups vegetable broth
• ▢ ½ cup pomegranate arils
• ▢ ¼ cup fresh mint finely chopped
• ▢ ¼ cup fresh parsley finely chopped
• ▢ ¼ cup crumbled feta cheese
• ▢ ¼ cup raisins
• ▢ 2 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• ▢ 1 Tbsp lemon juice
• ▢ ½ tsp salt
• ▢ ½ tsp pepper

Instructions

• Add bulgur and broth to a medium pot. Cover and bring to a boil, then reduce heat to a simmer and cook for 12 to 15 minutes, or until bulgur is tender. Drain off any excess liquid.
• Meanwhile, prepare remaining salad ingredients: chop herbs, seed pomegranate, crumble feta.
• In a large bowl toss together all ingredients. Serve warm or chilled.

Nutrition

Serving: 1serving | Calories: 260cal | Carbohydrates: 40g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 9g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 8mg | Sodium: 877mg | Potassium: 303mg | Fiber: 8g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 725IU | Vitamin C: 9.9mg | Calcium: 73mg | Iron: 1.6mg

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