Grains salad recipes with 500 or fewer calories

Cous Cous Salad with Prunes and Pecans

This is a great Mediterranean dish, the recipe called for almonds, but I put in pecans instead. It is a quick…

Bulgur and Bean Salad

Bulgur is classified as a whole grain and makes a healthy and satisfying vegetarian meal or a side to grilled meats. We like the light nutty flavor…

Brown Rice and Walnut Salad

This rice and walnut salad is an exciting way to eat brown rice.It is tasty,hearty, and bursting with nutrition.You can eat this salad warm or cold.

Rice-Lentil Salad

Rice-Lentil Salad-is an easy recipe for a side salad. Takes only 10 minutes to prepare. Main ingredients are white rice, lentils, celery, bell…

Barley Salad Primavera

We recently went with a "white salad" using only "white" or near white ingredients like barley, daikon, mushrooms, water chestnuts, etc. This…

Mexican Brown Rice, Quinoa and Black Bean Salad

As a main dish or a side to any number of meats or fish meals, this perky bright salad is tasty and healthy.…

Chewy Tabbouleh

I love tabbouleh. This recipe is a slight departure from tradition, using wheat berries versus the usual cracked wheat. The wheat berries add more…

Tabbouleh

This is a Gordon Ramsey recipe, slightly adapted. It has such a fresh summery taste and people are always asking me for the recipe. It's a great…

Quinoa Greek Salad

Quinoa is an Aztec Grain high in protein & fibre.

White Salad

Everyone knows how good greens are for us. But every now and then we like to take a different approach...go a little less colorful just for a dish…

Quinoa, Nectarine, Pistachio Salad

This is a light, quick & easy salad. Gluten free, very tasty & filling. My kids enjoyed the salad just as much…

Couscous Tabouli

Fiddlehead Fern and Cholla Bud Quinoa Salad

1/2 cup freekah or quinoa 1/2 pound baby artichokes- fresh or frozen or cholla buds 1/2 pound fiddlehead…