[Recipe] Kale Salad to Salivate For 🤤
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🥬 🤤Easy, Deeeelish Kicka$$ Kale Salad Recipe
Don’t know about you, frens, but finding eggs or egg whites around here is an exercise in futility.
So, my go-to, post-workout, make-ahead protein-packed brekkie sammies are on pause for now.
In lieu, I’ve been whipping up this delish kale salad recipe.
It’s fast, inexpensive, and oh-so-good for you. Boom.
Why this rocks:
Kale (and other cruciferous veggies) keep longer in the fridge so great for weekly/bi-weekly meal prep with no worry of sogginess or withering.
Tons of fiber to keep you feeling full while pumping you full of micronutrients, lowering bad cholesterol and other awesome things.
Excellent for post workout meal when you throw in some fruit, nuts/seeds and protein.
Inexpensive
What You Need:
large bag of pre-chopped and washed kale (any kind).
shaved Italian cheese or feta or parmesan (whatever you like, if you do)
whatever kind(s) of seeds or nuts you like (I use pumpkin seeds)
A dried or fresh fruit like raisins or mandarin oranges that are in season and inexpensive
apple cider vinegar
garlic
EVOO
agave syrup (or honey, maple syrup, or sweetener of your choice)
dijon mustard
salt-n-pepa
What to Do:
Dump the kale in a big bowl
I eat the stems for even more fiber but up to you. When the dressing breaks it down it’s not as “woody”
Make the Apple Cider Vinegar dressing
I modified this off a recipe I saw by Love & Lemons.
In a glass bottle (you can do this in a bowl, too) I add:
1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
2 tsp agave syrup or more to your taste (you can use maple syrup, stevia, honey, sweetener, etc to your liking and nutritional needs)
3 garlic cloves grated (I LOVE garlic, so some people may just want one clove)
1/2 tsp Dijon mustard
1/2 tsp salt
Ground black pepper to your liking
1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
Mix/shake everything BUT the olive oil together.
Then drizzle the olive oil into the mix and give it a whisk (I use an aerolatte) as you add it in so that the fat and acid can emulsify.
NOTE: You won’t use all the dressing. Save the rest for other salads or use as a marinade.
Voila.
Drizzle the dressing to your liking into the kale.
❗️CLUTCH: You must MASSAGE THE KALE
Get your cabbage pickers into the kale and massage it with the dressing. The acid helps break down the cellulose which transforms kale from tough and woody to yummy and pleasant.
If you’re using nuts, seeds, cheese and/or dried fruit, add those in to your taste.
Because those mandarin tangerines are in season and plentiful, I add those in when I’m about to eat the salad.
If you’re vegan/vegetarian, adding chickpeas, tofu or other beans works well.
For the perfect-postworkout meal…
add in enough fruit to hit your carbs
add in 3 or 4 oz of a lean protein
It’s a yummy and outstanding macro combo.
Even kale haters can’t hate this! If they do, call the police or doxx them on the internet.
🤌🏽 Let me know how you alter it to make it your own!
🔥Your Week 3 Strength Workout
Cycle 1 of 3
Week One Workout: https://deepkimchi.substack.com/i/153428660/workout
Week Two Workout: https://deepkimchi.substack.com/i/153428660/workout