Made With Love - A Tribute to My Parents - Farro Salad

Ingredients

• 2 Cups of farro
• 6 cups water
• Sea salt and/or Himalayan salt to season the water
• 3 -4 scallions, sliced
• 1 cup grape tomatoes, sliced into small rings or quartered
• ½ small to medium red onion, diced
• ½ red, yellow or orange bell pepper, remove seeds and stems and dice the ½ of the pepper
• 10 – 15 pitted Kalamata olives cut in half
• Small bunch of parsley, chopped (about ½ cup)
• Small bunch of chives, snipped (about ¼ cup)
• ½ cup olive oil *
• ½ balsamic vinegar *
• Sea salt and/or Himalayan salt and ground black pepper to taste