Central Market Kale Pepita Salad

By sybrmom

You can see from a previous post my love for Central Market’s Kale Cranberry Pepita salad. I don’t live close to a Central Market so I’m not able to get my hands on it that often, not to mention it’s $5.99/lb! Going by the ingredient label on the salad container I decided to try and make my own. It came out excatly like the real thing! Here’s the recipe, let me know what you think!

Ingredients

• 1 large bunch of raw, rinsed, stemmed and chopped kale (yields about 6 cups)
• 1/2 cup canola oil
• 1/4 cup rice wine vinegar
• 1/2 cup orange juice
• 1/8 cup soy sauce
• 1 tsp minced onions (in lieu of shallots)
• 1 tsp ground ginger
• 1 handful craisins or dried cranberries
• 1 handful roasted pepitas (shelled pumpkin seeds)
• 1 handful chopped or slivered almonds (roasted or raw)
• pinch of salt & pepper
• 1/2 tsp salt
• Optional: slivers of candied ginger to taste (I don’t like it, but it’s in the original salad)

Details

Servings 1
Adapted from dockfam.wordpress.com

Preparation

Step 1

Mix all of the ingredients except for the cranberries and seeds together in bowl with a whisk until well combined. Pour on top of kale and mix well until all leaves coated. Sprinkle on the cranberries, almonds and pepitas. Let salad sit for at least 1 hour in the fridge so that kale softens up a bit. Best if eaten the next day!

You can see mine looks just like the store bought kind and tastes the same too!