Kale Salad, Melt In Your Mouth

By seamline

Sometimes I wish I had a magic wand, so I could wave it and make everyone love kale as much as I do. Lucky for me, I think I came up with a recipe to make a kale lover out of just about anyone! I originally got the idea for this salad during a magnificent dinner I had in Miami during Art Basel. Since then, I’ve been slowly recreating and perfecting this salad and today I got it just right.

Taking hearty lacinato (dinosaur) kale and making it melt in your mouth is normally quite the task! But it can be easy, all you need is a food processor, a few minutes to prepare some simple ingredients and voila! Every flavor profile is represented in this recipe – sweet, salty, sour, astringent, bitter, and pungent. In Ayurvedic medicine, they believe that having each taste in a meal acts as a beneficial digestive component leaving your body completely nourished and satisfied. So that’s why it’s no surprise that I feel great after eating this salad.

**Trader Joe has bags of cleaned kael. One small bag and double other ingredients

Ingredients

• 1 bunch of lacinato or dinosaur kale, stems removed, rinsed and patted dry
• 1/3 cup currants (or chopped raisins)
• juice of one lemon
• 1 tbsp of olive oil
• 1 tsp local honey
• 1/2 cup pine nuts toasted
• salt and pepper to taste
• 4 tbsp grated raw parmesan cheese
• Instructions

Details

Servings 2
Preparation time 10mins
Cooking time 10mins
Adapted from foodbabe.com

Preparation

Step 1

1. In a food processor, process kale into small chopped pieces

2. To make dressing, stir lemon juice, olive oil, honey, salt and pepper together in a large bowl

3. Add chopped kale, currants, pine nuts and parmesan to bowl with dressing

4. Stir all ingredients together and serve

5. (Optional - Save some pine nuts and/or parmesan cheese for top of salad before serving for presentation purposes)