Thursday, January 12, 2012

Easy meal with farro

I bought a package of farro with mushrooms at The Wedge (my co-op) from an organic farm in Siena, Italy. This was the first time I had seen farro packaged like a lot of other grains, as a meal base, instead of solo.  Fattoria Pieve a Salti is the name of the farm, which is part of an operation that also involves a restaurant and country hotel ("agriturismo"). I cooked the farro mix (which had a recipe for cooking it like a risotto) in my rice cooker (so I didn't need to stir in the broth for 20  minutes), with some tomato sauce left over from cooking chicken, so it had a rich flavor. It was delicious!
I had always been told that farro was the same as spelt, but it turns out that farro in English is "emmer wheat"--another ancient grain.

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