Wonderful salad! My husband asks for it all the time. I did it first with left over turkey and we loved it. Since we don't usually care much for left over turkey, this was a wonderful surprise. I am now making it with chicken - left over from a rotisserie chicken or cook up chicken breasts just to make the salad. I do add about 3 teaspoons of curry since it seemed to need a little more than called for. When out of grapes, I have used diced apple. I have also used lime juice when I didn't have lemon juice on hand and that was also very good. I have used peanuts or whatever nuts are on hand - mixed, cachews, pecans - all good. I've found that we like to add a slice or two of sweet onion, finely diced. I do not add the sugar.

Reviewed On: Feb. 9, 2009

This is the best barley side dish I have ever had. I stir fried the vegetables, barley & seasonings, then added the liquid and tossed it all in my rice cooker. It was wonderful but I did need to add a bit more water before the end of cooking time.

Reviewed On: Jan. 24, 2009