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Fancy a salad for your next meal" Try this superfood buckwheat salad. It's nutritious, tasty and incredibly satisfying. Combined with different sorts of fresh herbs, blistered red grapes, pomegranate seeds and a lemony smoky cumin dressing, this salad really brings this pseudo grain to life!

Buckwheat, like quinoa, amaranth, teff, and Kañiwa, belongs to pseudocereals. Pseudocereals are plants that produce fruits or seeds which are used and consumed as grains, though botanically pseudocereals are neither grasses nor true cereal grains.

Buckwheat, despite its name, is not related to wheat and is thus gluten-free. It mainly composed of carbs and a decent amount of fiber. Buckwheat also contains small amount of protein. SaladDressing

240 g Buckwheat
250 g Seedless red grapes
1 tbsp Avocado oil (or olive oil)
2 tsp Pomegranate molasses
1/2 Pomegranate seeds
80 g Brazil nuts, toasted and roughly chopped
80 g Fresh herbs (basil, flat parsley, dill, mint and lemon thyme)
Salt and pepper

2 tbsp Cumin seeds, toasted, roughly crushed in a mortar and pestle
Juice and zest of 1 lemon
1 tsp Smoked paprika
1 tbsp Date syrup (or honey)
6 tbsp Extra-virgin olive oil

Place the buckwheat in a frying pan and toast over medium heat until lightly browned and the buckwheat is taking on a nut...