Enter your email & we’ll send it to your inbox. Plus, get great new recipes from us every week! By submitting this form, you consent to receive emails from Hurry the Food Up. If you haven’t heard of buckwheat before, then you’re in for a treat! Well, you’re in for a treat anyway, but if you’re new to buckwheat, it’s a whole new, gluten-free world! Buckwheat is a pseudocereal, like quinoa, which means that it isn’t actually a cereal grain, although it is used like one. It is not related to wheat (except by its misleading name!), so it is completely gluten free. It is rich in minerals and antioxidants, and generally contains more health benefits than many other standard grains such as rice, wheat and corn. So by using buckwheat, we make this not only a gluten free salad, but an overall health BOMB as well.
Why we are storing our buckwheat salad in a jar
Salad jar recipes are all the rage at the moment, and while we have been singing their praises for years (yeah, we’re feeling smug!), we are glad to join in on this renaissance, first with our ramen noodle salad jar and now with this buckwheat salad jar. We’ve already covered the basics of how to make a salad in a jar – it’s essentially just prepping the ingredients and layering them in a jar, with the dressing at the bottom. This way you can mix it or dump it into a bowl when you’re ready to eat. A super easy veggie lunch idea! One of the reasons we are interested in mason jar salad recipes at the moment is because we think they have great potential for encouraging sustainable lifestyle choices! Instead of buying pre-packed lunches, or even buying new tupperwares, you could reuse an old jam jar and store your lunch that way! Plastic pollution is a big threat to marine life, so we should all do our bit to find ways to reduce our own plastic consumption. It’s a small step, but why not start here?
KALE-ing all salad fans! It doesn’t get FETA than this!
Sorry (not sorry!) for the dreadful pun, but we want to talk about two of the other components of this buckwheat salad – kale and feta! There are all manner of yummy bits and bobs in this recipe….carrots, apples, honey, orange juice, dijon mustard! But we are going to focus on kale and feta, because they’re really the stars of the show – it could just as well be called a kale feta salad! Kale is a bona fide SUPERFOOD! Like it is literally one of the most nutrient dense foods on the planet. It contains crazy amounts of vitamin A,K & C and powerful antioxidants, as well as compounds that may help to prevent cancer and lower cholesterol! Try this kale and tuscan white bean soup if you fancy getting more kale in your diet! Maybe I should have written about feta first – it rather pales in comparison to kale! But nonetheless, it is a delicious cheese that provides a good source of protein and beneficial fatty acids and bone-friendly calcium and phosphorus! Our avocado, citrus and feta salad is a good example of feta in its element! Nothing beats the rich salty tang that a helping of crumbled feta brings to a dish. With the addition of kale and feta salad has never looked this good!
