Now that the excessive eating is done, let’s talk about salads.

The type of salads that count as entrees. The type you want to eat after gorging yourself for a week and feeling the waistband of your jeans a little bit tighter than you remembered.

Watermelon Radish and Spinach Salad with Barley | Things I Made Today

This is when a grain-heavy salad becomes your best friend. Our winter CSA brought us amazing frost sweetened spinach and a beautiful watermelon radish.

Watermelon Radish and Spinach Salad with Barley | Things I Made Today

I added some barley, feta, and a couple basil leaves from a plant that refuses to stop growing, even in November.

Watermelon Radish and Spinach Salad with Barley | Things I Made Today

A simple dressing of olive oil, lemon juice, and lemon zest. And in addition to being healthy, filling, and restorative, it really is a beauty to look at too.

Watermelon Radish and Spinach Salad with Barley | Things I Made Today

Watermelon Radish and Spinach Salad with Barley
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Recipe type: Salad
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Serves: 4-6
 
Ingredients
  • 1 cup barley, dry
  • ¼ cup olive oil
  • juice from 1 small lemon
  • zest from ½ small lemon
  • 2 large handfuls spinach leaves
  • 1 medium watermelon radish, trimmed and sliced thin on a mandolin
  • 5-6 basil leaves, chopped
  • 4 ounces feta, crumbled
Instructions
  1. Cook barley according to packaging instructions. Let cool completely.
  2. In a small bowl or jar, whisk or shake together olive oil, lemon juice, and lemon zest.
  3. Combine spinach and barley in a large bowl. Pour dressing on top and toss. Add watermelon radishes, basil leaves, and feta. Toss well and serve.

 

3 Comments

  • 11 / 30 / 15 / 8:59 am

    Looks yummy! Alas, everything in our garden is a memory. 22 degrees, give or take, will do that!

    writes AngieReply
    • 11 / 30 / 15 / 10:05 am

      Yes, this weather is not nice to gardens, but we somehow managed to get the basil to root inside and now it’s blooming like crazy!

      writes VickyReply
  • 01 / 30 / 16 / 1:19 am

    […] Brighten a winter meal with this stunning spinach and radish salad topped with barley and feta and tossed in a lemon dressing. By Vicky Cassidy […]

    writes Radish and Barley Spinach SaladReply

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