What is your favorite way to eat kale?

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   Victoria Lynnposted 11 years ago

   What is your favorite way to eat kale?
   
   I have only just discovered it and would love to collect some awesome recipes.

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   ChristinSposted 11 years ago

   Take the stems out, drizzle with olive oil and a bit of sea salt or nutritional yeast (cheesy flavor) and bake at a low temp or, even better, place it in a food dehydrator and it makes awesome chips without all the fat and calories.  Very crispy and good.

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      Victoria Lynnposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Thanks, Christin. Great ideas! I never thought about baking it. I don't have a food dehydrator, though. :-(

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   TylerKathyposted 11 years ago

   I don't use a dehydrater. I just turn the oven as low as it goes and dry the leaves that way. I also like a massaged Kale Salad.  When the leaves are rubbed they smell like banana!

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      Victoria Lynnposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      so you can make chips in the oven? The leaves smell like banana? Wow!

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   Patsybellposted 11 years ago

   Just about any fresh spinach recipe can be converted to a kale recipe.

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      Victoria Lynnposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      That's a great tip. Thanks!

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   B. Leekleyposted 11 years ago

   I like kale best as one of the ingredients in a soup, stew, casserole, or other multi-ingredient hot dish. Kale chips and kale salads are also good. My wife made a tasty supper recently that was millet, pieces of some sort of meat, kale, and I forget what, if anything, else.
   
   Just ask Google: recipe kale [additional ingredient(s)]
   
   I just found a pomegranate, kale, brown rice, walnuts, and feta salad. I think I'd like that.

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   wychicposted 11 years ago

   Raw, in a salad loaded with garlic and about a dozen other ingredients . Or rolled around some cream cheese and crushed nuts. But that's just me. Whenever we get more kale than we can eat raw for the week (we get Bountiful Baskets, so we take it as it comes as opposed to shopping for exact amounts) then we go to Allrecipes for more ideas. As already suggested here, we do search out spinach recipes and use kale instead, and it usually turns out a little more flavorful and with some extra texture than with spinach.

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   peachpurpleposted 11 years ago

   Kale do taste bland and a bit bitter. I usually blanch them in hot water, drained, stir fry with oyster sauce and garlic.

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   lupineposted 11 years ago

   I have had it in soup...lentil soup with kale, and potato soup with kale.

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