Kale

by Impedimenta Wed Mar 26, 2014 8:46 am

Kale is a super food. It was very hard for me to include Kale in my diet though, did not work well with my vegetable smoothies. Anyways, a few days back, I was in the Whole Food Market and had Kale from their salad bar. I tried to replicate the dressing that these use on their finely chopped raw Kale. I asked a college of mine who is a gourmet cook and he gave me some suggestions.

This is what I did:

½ cup of tahini (sesame paste; I used the Aleppo brand but Krynos is also good)
the juice of one fresh lemon - Very important to use fresh juice
one minced garlic clove (two if you dare)
1 tablespoon of honey
2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar - surprisingly, this tastes disgusting when consumed by itself :-)
Mix the ingredients together in a bowl. Slowly add water (a little at a time while stirring the dressing)
Until the consistency is like a creamy salad dressing.
Pour over a bunch of washed and finely chopped Kale and toss.
As a finishing touch, you may wish to season lightly with Mrs. Dash seasoning and a pinch of salt.

I thoroughly enjoyed this salad.

by nevada Wed Mar 26, 2014 12:23 pm

I ate a lightly baked kale salad once and it was awesome. I don't know how they did it. Maybe toss some olive oil over the kale, throw in some finely chopped garlic, add some salt and bake?

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