Tarly salad with orange hazelnut dressing – living leaner
Tarly salad with chili, orange and hazelnuts
It can be extremely trying in this december month to try and still eat within the budget of 10 euro. I can assure that we will be going over budget on many days this month, but in the meantime we still try and do our best to eat below the limit for most ‘regular’ days. Since I’ve been busy with work and Tom is currently at home, he did quite a bit of the cooking this week. And let’s be honest; what is better then coming home and your man is behind the stove cooking you a lovely dinner? I’m not entirely sure how the cost relates on the things he cooked, but I think he did pretty good too. We had a lovely salad the other day with little chicken sausages and baked potatoes and he made a pasta the day before with the other half of the chicken sausages.
Good and healthy grains
Since I had a day of today I wanted to make something nice and healthy to counterbalance all the sweet and unhealthy stuff we’ve been preparing before and my eye fell on this recipe in the Christmas edition of Delicious magazine. I guess you can eat this salad as part of a buffet if that is what you want to do, but it is also perfect on it’s own as a light and healthy meal and also important; it will not break the bank account! When I read that I needed half of an entire ball of garlic I was a little taken aback until I read that I had to roast it first. Not that I don’t like garlic; I LOVE garlic, but the thing is… Tom always has some kind of chemical reaction when we eat too much garlic. I don’t mind people smelling like garlic. I honestly don’t. Be he doesn’t smell of garlic. I can’t describe it, but like I said; it seems almost like a chemical reaction of sorts. Let me tell you… it is not pleasant! (understatement of the century..really)
I’m not exactly sure how it will go with roasted garlic. We’ve had roasted garlic before but I can’t exactly remember if that was good or bad. I guess good if I can’t remember it.. 
Now on to this lovely salad. The flavor of this dressing is what makes this tarly salad special. It is strong and delicious but that is what this nees. Tarly (I think it might be called something else in other parts of the world!) is essentially precooked wheat, which you can boil and eat. If you don’t know what it is or can’t find it (our supermarket has it, so it is not a difficult ingredient) then you can substitute for rice, couscous or bulghur. Be sure to taste before adding all the dressing as they might have different absorption of the flavors.
It’s another vegetarian dish… I don’t pick out vegetarian dishes on purpose. I just like the dish and then o, it turns out to be vegetarian.
Tarly salad with orange hazelnut dressing
Yield: 2
Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 20 mins
Total Time: 40 mins
Ingredients:
- 50g hazelnuts (peeled)
- 1/2 piece garlic (talking about the whole garlic here)
- 125 ml orange juice
- 1 orange zest (zest of 1 orange)
- 100ml extra virgin olive oil
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 225g tarly (Tarly is basically a precooked wheat and can be bought at the supermarket)
- 2 red chili
- 1 bunch flat leaf parsley
Directions:
| You can prepare this a few hours in advance if you want to. Preheat the oven to 200 C. Take all the cloves out of the ball of garlic and put them in a shallow ovendish with a small layer of oil. Roast them in the oven for about 20 minutes till they are soft. Remove from the oven and leave to cool. In the meantime bring your orange juice to a boil and leave to simmer in order to reduce to about half. Roast the hazelnuts; either in a frying pan or in the oven until they are golden brown. Take out and leave to cool. Chop them coarsely. Put the orange juice, chopped hazelnuts, orange zest and the orange juice in a mixing bowl. Push the garlic out of it's skins and mash it a little bit. Add to the mix. Add the olive oil and a little salt and use the lemonjuice to bring to taste. |
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| Cook the tarly in water in about 12 minutes. Drain and rinse and leave to cool. Mix the tarly with 2/3 of the orange/hazelnut dressing. Clean the chili's and cut them in very thin rings. Heat a little bit of oil in a frying pan and fry the chili rings until golden. |
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| Cut the parsley shortly before serving and add to the tarly together with the fried chili rings. Sprinkle with the rest of the chili and parsley and sprinkle with the remaining dressing. | |
Recipe by Delicious Magazine
This recipe is part of my friend Mona’s Living Leaner project where she is trying to feed her entire family for below 10 euro’s each day. She’s becoming quite famous with it too as she’s been featured in a lot of local magazines and newspapers!
The total cost of this dish was:
- tarly € 0,90
- garlic € 0,30
- oranges € 0,50
- hazelnuts € 1,=
- chili € 1,=
- parsley € 1,40
Total spend € 5,10 (out of stock we used salt, pepper & olive oil)
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A very healthy and delicious salad! The dressing is really divine sounding.
Cheers,
Rosa
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Simone (junglefrog) — December 11th, 2011 at 16:23
Thanks Rosa. it was indeed very good!
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I have not heard of Tarly before, but your pictures make it look like the grain we call “Barley”, or “Pearl Barley”. It is something we often add to a rich soup or stew.
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Simone (junglefrog) — December 10th, 2011 at 17:34
I think you’re right; Tarly seems to be more a brand name then anything else..
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Like Mark added, never hears of tarly but it indeed looks like barley…not a bad idea to par-boil and sell it if that’s the case. A healthy and delicious-looking salad indeed.
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Simone (junglefrog) — December 11th, 2011 at 16:24
It is probably indeed pearl barley and tarly more a brandname then anything else..
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Simone, ages ago I got together with my group of friends and we cooked two pasta sauces, each containing 7 heads of garlic, not cloves, heads. Imagine the smell! I have to say that they were delicious.
I really don’t watch what I spend for dinner, not that I over spend, but I don’t really pay attention on how much each meal cost.
This salad sounds delicious, I wonder whether farro would work too.
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Simone (junglefrog) — December 11th, 2011 at 16:25
Wow, 7 heads of garlic sounds massive!! But if it is roasted it is much less strong then the raw version so that helps..
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Great shots. This dish looks so delicious!
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This salad sound delicious and tasty. I love garlic in dressing salad. I don’t know what I really spend each meal and dishes. Cheers
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Simone (junglefrog) — December 11th, 2011 at 16:28
I never really checked how much I spend on meals before either. Just bought what I needed and went on with it. But with Tom being unemployed we do have to watch the money a bit better so it’s good practice for us to do this. And actually great fun too!
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“And let’s be honest; what is better then coming home and your man is behind the stove cooking you a lovely dinner?” Oh, baby, nothing is better! Especially when that man (mine and yours!) are such fabulous cooks! And mmmm nothing better than roasted garlic and lots of it! Love this simple, tasty salad – gotta show JP since he keeps buying boxes of Ebly blé (tarly?)…
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Simone (junglefrog) — December 11th, 2011 at 16:26
Never heard of ebly ble but it could very well be the same as tarly (or pearl barley as it turns out to be..) It’s really good this salad, although it could do with a tiny bit of bacon maybe on top (not so vegetarian anymore but still good!)
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We call it pearl barley too Simone and we add it to our rice mix and also put it into stews. I think this looks like a lovely salad though and certainly healthy!
Hope you are enjoying having Tom at home cooking for you ;0)
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Simone (junglefrog) — December 11th, 2011 at 16:27
Yes, I should probably enjoy it while it lasts right?
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I’ve never heard of Tarly before, but you sure made it look incredibly good! Could you pass me a fork, please? I’d really love to dig in…
I’m not sure about all that garlic, though. Roasted or not, when I eat too much of the stuff, my skin smells like garlic. I’d probably have to leave it out. Hope Tom did alright with it!
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