![[RECIPE] Make-ahead millet tabouli salad with garlic-mint dressing](https://bodyecology.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/bigstock-Tabbouleh-Salad-In-The-Hands-O-386199592-scaled.jpg)
Fresh herbs are abundant during the summer season. Enjoy this delicious millet salad with herbs like mint and chives as a side dish or even a main course. It packs well for summertime picnics and cookouts, too.
Millet is a gluten-free, grain-like seed that’s packed full of vitamins and minerals. It’s so versatile — you’ll love it in everything from salads to bread to pancakes to casseroles.
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If you haven’t tried this delicious gluten-free food yet, now’s your time. Click here to learn how to prepare your millet and to read all about its research-backed health benefits.
Tabouli salad ingredients:
- 2 cups soaked, steamed millet
- 1 cup fresh dill, chopped
- 1 cup fresh parsley, chopped
- 1 cup fresh mint, chopped
- 1/2 cup fresh chives, chopped
- 1 cup red peppers, chopped
- 1 cup zucchini squash, steamed and cooled
- 1 tsp. raw, unrefined apple cider vinegar
Instructions:
- Rinse and soak your millet in clean water with the raw apple cider vinegar in a glass bowl for 8 to 24 hours at room temperature.
- Cook millet as you would rice, but with more water (3 cups water to 1 cup millet). However, if you soak millet, you won’t need as much water when you cook it. After soaking, try 1 cup of millet to 2 or 2 ½ cups of water. You determine how much water to use depending on how soft you like your grain.
- You will know your millet is finished because the dark yellow color will become opaque.
- Refrigerate your millet.
- When cooled, mix in chopped herbs and vegetables and enjoy with garlic-mint dressing.
Garlic-mint dressing ingredients:
- 1/4-1/3 cup fresh lemon juice, to taste (start with less)
- 1/2 cup organic, unrefined oil
- 1-2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tbsp. fresh mint leaves, minced
- Celtic sea salt, to taste
Instructions:
- Blend lemon juice, mint, and garlic in your Vitamix or high-speed blender, and slowly add oil to emulsify.
- Serve this dressing over millet tabouli salad or any other salad you like.
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