Name: Skirt Steak, Farro, and Arugula Salad
Ingredients: 1 cup farro; 1 cup apple juice; 1/4 cup olive oil; kosher salt; table salt; black pepper; 2 big handfuls arugula; 12 cherry tomatos, sliced in half; 2 carrots, peeled and sliced; 6 radishes, sliced thin; 1/2 lemon, juiced; 1/2 cup parm shavings; 1/2 cup roasted salted pistachios, shelled; 1 skirt steak, trimmed

It’s Monday. You are feeling bad about the pizza you ordered for dinner on Friday that you polished off sometime after midnight on Saturday. Then came Sunday funday…. and now you need some redemption. You need some salad.

But you still want it to be delicious. You don’t have to torture yourself to feel like you are once again eating healthy. You just need a little grilled steak, some farro to make it filling, and some arugula so you can claim its a salad.

Pair it with a bright lemony dressing and yum!

Serves a hungry 2, requires a little make ahead, thirty minutes from there.

You could skip the steak and make this vegetarian, but why?

Different veggies and what not are a good thing, mix it up, go for it!

Mise en Place

Staples

1 cupfarro
1 cupapple juice
1/4 cupolive oil
kosher salt
table salt
black pepper

Produce

2 big handfulsarugula
12cherry tomatos, sliced in half
2carrots, peeled and sliced
6radishes, sliced thin
1/2lemon, juiced

Dairy

1/2 cupparm shavings

Stalples

1/2 cuproasted salted pistachios, shelled

Meats

1skirt steak, trimmed

Directions

a couple hours (or previous night) before hand cook farro according to package directions but sub 1 cup of water for apple juice and add 1 bay leaf. drain and let cool

45 minutes before go time, fire up grill

season steak and let it sit while grill heads

20 minutes before go time, start cooking steak. I like to flip and rotate every minute for 8 minutes, closing the grill lid between flips for the first 4 flips. ymmv.

evac steak and let rest on cooling rack, let rest 5 minutes

whisk together lemon juice, olive oil, big pinch of table salt, several grinds of black pepper.

slice steak against the grain and then into bite size chunks.

toss salad together with steak and dressing

serve and eat!