Made this to take to a BBQ and was a huge hit. Didn't have the sunblush toms and had to use normal broccoli but it was delicious anyway.... Will be one in the binder for sunny evenings and then the leftovers to take to work for lunch !

Really good if you roast chorizo with the squash then mix the cooked barley in the roasting tin to get all the chorizo flavour. Yum.

Excellent. But how can I save this recipe in my binder?

Excellent. But how can I save this recipe in my binder?!

The list of ingredients looks daunting, but it is really simple once you get started and the result is worth the effort. I made it as the main dish of a vegetarian buffet-style lunch, and several times since. It went particularly well as the single side dish with a roast chicken.

This is a super recipe. My husband and I went meat free for Lent and this salad makes a nice substantial veggie meal.

I've started a blog documenting our challenge with some veggie East European recipes too:

http://mariykasfood.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/russian-winter-salad-and-cook...

So lovely favour. I made this for Christmas dinner and everyone loved it. I used fried cherry tomatoes instead of dried tomatoes and added some brown rice along with pearl barley. I'll add quinoa next time. I'll make it again, definitely.

Soooooo tasty!!!!

Really tasty salad. Didn't have any tenderstem broccoli, so used asparagus instead. And I also put the onions in with the squash, for the last 10 minutes or so. Brought it to a christmas lunch buffet, and it was a big hit. Several people wanted the recipe. Will be making this again, that's for sure :)

Absolute winner, love this!! Make sure there is plenty of roast squash... Once you have a bite without it, its not the same. Lovely ingredients, great recipe!

Very good salad. Something different.

Absolutely delicious - I added a sliced courgette which I roasted alongside the butternut squash and omitted the olives. Served with roast chicken and green beans. Can't wait to eat the leftovers for lunch tomorrow!

I made this salad for my daughter's wedding. The buffet was entirely vegetarian and I needed a salad option that was filling and different from the usual pasta salads. It was wonderful and well received!

I can't recommend this highly enough. Fantastic.

This salad has generated several requests for the recipe after every occasion I have served it.
I changed barley for jasmine rice (because of gluten allergy) and the result is lovely. Have used the salad for a buffet when celebrating my husband's 70th birthday i Denmark as well as for having firends over here in France, where we live in Nice most of the year.

Really tasty addition to a Christmas buffet. I left out the olives as my family tend to pick them out. I think this would make a good accompaniment to lamb.

I made this (x3) for a big party and it was awesome. I've made it several times since, as have many of my guests who asked me for the recipe. Lasts for days in the fridge and tastes just as good. Brilliant for vegans and those with wheat allergies..in fact, a winner all round as it's tasty and healthy!

Made this for some friends on Friday night and it went down a treat! Served with grilled haloumi and olive ciabatta to make it a little less healthy! Really nice balance of flavours and the barely was a great texture variation to my usual couscous.

Are the nutritional values OK? Are they really per serving?

For instance, it says this it has 0g of fibre per portion, how can this be if most of its ingredients in the recipe are high in fiber, i.e. barley, broccoli, tomatoes, pumpkin? http://www.wehealny.org/healthinfo/dietaryfiber/fibercontentchart.html
Also, where do the 2 grams of saturated fat come from? And the 14 grs. of fat? And the 9 grs. of sugar?? Per serving??

Please check the nutritional values, I'm quite inclined to think they're wrong. If they were right this would be not a very healthy thing to eat at all.

The recipe is great though. Thanks so much for sharing it.

I used this for a buffet lunch - admit to leaving out about half of the pearl barley because there looked so much once I'd cooked it! I wasn't sure how it would go down but the meat-eaters loved it too! Very tasty and the dressing delicious.