Summertime Barley Salad Recipe

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Ingredients

1 cup pearl barley
1/4 cup sweet black sticky (Thai) rice
1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil
4 cloves garlic crushed and peeled
2 T pine nuts
1 jalapeÃ±o chile seeds and ribs removed, minced
15 oz roughly chopped baby spinach
1 1/2 T zaâatar
3 medium-large ripe tomatoes, chopped and set in drainer to drain excess watery juice
1 cup chopped scallions
Juice of 2 limes
2 T chopped flat leaf parsley
2-4 oz (to taste) diced feta cheese (try to find a good one-I was stuck with a local lousy one and it definitely brought the salad down a bit)
1 cucumber, seeded, peeled, diced
1 sweet bell pepper, diced
1 red onion diced
3 T red wine vinegar
2 T chopped pitted kalamata olives
2 T chopped fresh spearmint
Salt and freshly ground black pepper

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