Coconut Curried Skillet Farro and Chickpeas with Smoky Potatoes

By Kathy Patalsky
Published 01/06/2015

Ingredients

• Farro:
• 3 ½ cups cooked farro
• 1 ½ tablespoon vegan butter
• 1 ½ tablespoon curry powder
• ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
• ¼ cup flat leaf parsley, finely chopped
• 1 ½ cups kale, chopped and packed (or try frozen kale)
• 16oz canned chickpeas, drained and rinsed
• ¼ cup coconut milk (or coconut cream)
• ¼ cup chopped raw almonds
• 2 teaspoon maple syrup, grade B
• OPTIONAL: pinch of fresh orange peel or golden raisins (optional)
• Potatoes:
• 1 ½ cups potato, peeled and diced (any variety)
• 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
• 1 tablespoon virgin coconut oil
• Whole dish: salt and pepper to taste (I added about ⅓ teaspoon pink salt)

Instructions

1. Precook your farro, since this will take a good hour to get your farro tender you may want to do this part the day before like I did, so when you are ready for dinner, you can whip up this dish in under thirty minutes, easy! Cook farro by boiling it in a large pot of water until all the water has absorbed and farro has bloomed and is tender. I usually slowly simmer my farro in water for at least 60 minutes. Drain any excess water and place cooked farro in the fridge to chill.
2. To prepare farro: Warm a skillet over high heat and melt the vegan butter. Add the cooked farro, curry and cinnamon and sautè over high for about two minutes.
3. To the farro, add in the chickpeas and coconut milk, optional citrus ingredient and fold. Fold and sautè for another few miutes until the coconut milk has absorbed. Then push all the farro mixture over to one side of the pan leaving a blank space.
4. Add the chopped almonds to the blank spot and drizzle the maple over top them. Stir the maple almonds for a minute, then fold them into the rest of the mixture.
5. Reduce heat to low and fold in the kale and parsley and optional orange zest.
6. While the farro mixture is on low heat, bring a small pot of water to a boil and boil the potatoes for 4-6 minutes or until tender but not mushy. Drain potatoes and set aside.
7. Transfer the farro mixture to your serving bowl, and in the same skillet, turn up stove heat to high and melt the coconut oil into the skillet. Add the potatoes, paprika and salt and pepper. Saute potatoes 3-4 minutes, or until edges brown and crisp up. Pour potatoes on the side of the farro in the serving dish to serve. Serve warm. Delicious warm or chilled.

Yield: 6 servings
Prep Time: 00 hrs. 10 mins.