Our Favorite Farro Recipes Will Inspire You to Cook This Versatile Grain

Roasting grapes concentrates their flavor, transforming even seasonless seedless grapes into a compelling ingredient. They are delectable in this farro salad shot through with pungent red onion and vividly pretty mesclun leaves. (Imported Muscat grapes from the Southern Hemisphere are a delicious substitute for the Concord grapes of late fall if you're making this salad late in a Northern winter and spring.)

In this nutritious riff on a cool-season risotto, the autumnal combination of grated golden beets and butternut squash create a sweet backdrop for farro grains and crunchy pepita seeds, topped with tangy goat cheese.

Quicker-cooking semi-pearled farro makes this warm supper salad a cinch. Lemon juice and heady garlic balance the sugar of the sweet potatoes, while a handful of fresh greens offers a final, peppery flourish.

Farro tossed with chopped romaine and the spice of fresh watercress creates a cool bed for a killer combination of flavors in this creative take on the Cobb salad. With smoked trout, mellow avocado, and bittersweet pink grapefruit drizzled with a mustard vinaigrette, it's guaranteed to banish the blues.

It doesn't get easier than a breakfast bowl of farro. As good with morning coffee as it is at midnight, all it asks for is a slick of maple syrup with of your favorite milk and berries.

Mint and lemon zest are the bright highlights for creamy French feta in an insanely healthy and hearty salad that combines farro with our favorite leafy green, lacinato (Italian kale).

Rich with the complexity of mushrooms, fortified with wholegrain farro, and finished with a dash of essential vinegar, this wholesome and nourishing soup is sure to become a favorite.

Exploding with the sunny flavors of lemon zest and plenty of fresh dill, this farro and feta salad pairs the softly chewy grains with tender asparagus. Marcona almonds add luxurious crunch.

A special dinner for friends and family, this entrée combines a succulent loin of pork served sliced upon a platter of farro, along with the best of the season's roasted plums and a piquant salsa verde.

In this gorgeous salad, the potassium-rich bitterness of radicchio is tamed by golden raisins, juicy fennel, and the comforting texture of quick-cooking pearled farro.