Have any great kale recipes?

[Carolyn R]

My garden is bursting with it, I've been freezing it...now I need some recipes to use it in!

[fruitfulmomma]

Not a recipe but my sil made us some really good potato soup that had kale and sausage in it. I think it was a variation of some traditional soup, I wish I could remember the name.

[artemis33]

'Crispy Kale' is awesome. I got the idea somewhere here at MDC but I don't know who to give credit to

Clean and dry your kale. Chop roughly. Toss with olive oil, salt, and if desired, a little garlic (I use dry garlic granules from the HFS). Bake on a cookie sheet for approx. 15 min at 350 until crisp.

Super. YUM!

[snoodess]

Originally Posted by fruitfulmomma

Not a recipe but my sil made us some really good potato soup that had kale and sausage in it. I think it was a variation of some traditional soup, I wish I could remember the name.

Caldo verde. Love it!

If you eat meat the best and easiest way to make kale is to fry some chopped bacon, add garlic just until toasty, add kale and saute a couple minutes. It's so easy and delicious.

We also add finely chopped frozen/fresh kale to enchilada/taco/shepard's pie meat or spaghetti sauce or soups. It's good in smoothies too.

[dogmom327]

I've just been sauteing it with mushrooms and garlic in lots of ghee :

[almama]

Kale Crispies rock.

We have been using LOTS of kale with this recipe:

http://www.ehow.com/how_2319879_carr...e-muffins.html

[fruitfulmomma]

Caldo verde. Love it!

That's it! Thanks!

[covertlycrunchy]

I usually saute in onion & bacon. Sometimes I add toasted pine nuts and some tomatoes for a more "Italian" version.

[greengirl_]

It's really good sauted in olive oil with lots and lots of garlic. Serve it over pasta and you've got yourself a meal! :

You can also toss in a handfull of chopped kale in soups, stews, omeletes, quiches, or anything that calls for spinach. I like to add chopped kale to bean soups (lentil, white bean, etc.). This is a great way to use up all the frozen kale from your garden.

[Teenytoona]

I've thrown together a kale/sausage/barley (and assorted) vegetable soup and it tastes excellent.

[kalisis]

Put it in smoothies! Yumm!

There's a good potatoe/kale soup in Veganomicon too - it has lots of sage in it and I usually cut the amount called for in half.

I also saute with lots of garlic in some olive oil and then sprinkle with Braggs.

[Magelet]

I love to use kale for "eggs in a nest".

Also, a friend made the most scrumptious salad the other day: the dressing was brazil nuts, garlic, ginger, lime juice, flax seed oil, and water, and salt, the salat was raw kale (chiffonaded or sliced into thin strips), raw red cabbage (cut the same), scallions and wakame (dry, just crumbled in). It was amazing! I can't wait to try it. though I think she blended or food processed the dressing, since the nuts were ground and I don't have anything for that, but I'm going to try it anyways.

[Oh the Irony]

I have two favorites:

Saute onion, garlic, red pepper and zucchini. Add kale and some water to steam it. Serve over rice with sunflower seeds, hemp oil and tamari or braggs. Delicious!

Mix olive oil, thyme, apple cider vinegar. Coat chopped kale. Addictive.

[Earth Momma]

I puree it and add it to everything from soup, meat balls, scrambled eggs, pasta with a little pesto!! oh the list goes on!!

[Jennifer Z]

Smoothies are my biggest way to deal with Kale. My most typical version is kale, blueberries, flax seeds, half a banana and whatever else I have handy.

It is good with frozen kale (or other greens) too, so just freezing the kale is a good option. (I think you have to blanch kale first, but I don't have a garden, so I am not sure).

I also like kale and bean soup.

[EnviroBecca]

Fresh kale can be eaten all by itself or dipped in salad dressing or hummus, if you like it. I personally find it too chewy. I learned that many kids like it, though, when I was an assistant Brownie leader: One of our troop members had visited a restaurant, eaten her garnish, and loved it, so she asked her parents to get her more of that. When it was her turn to bring the snack for a troop meeting, she brought a pound of raw kale, and it was devoured rapidly!

Add a few leaves of kale to a batch of coleslaw. It livens up the appearance, as well as having more/different vitamins than cabbage.

All the following ideas work with either fresh or frozen kale:

Add it to prepared spaghetti sauce. You can just mix it into the sauce while heating, or if you prefer the kale thoroughly cooked, sautee it in a little olive oil in the bottom of the pot before adding the sauce.

Add it to pretty much any soup you're making from scratch or heating up from a can. I like to sautee the kale and 1 or 2 cloves crushed garlic in olive oil just until kale is thawed, then add a can of cream-of-mushroom soup, a can of milk, a pinch of rosemary, and a pinch of white pepper.

Cook it with ramen noodles. If you put frozen kale into the water while you're waiting for it to boil, it'll take a little longer to boil, but the kale will be pretty well cooked by the time the noodles are done—quick and easy!

Sautee kale with garlic or onion in olive oil, with a little oregano and black pepper if you like, and:
*serve over pasta with diced tomato.
*fill a baked potato and top with grated cheese.
*add a couple eggs and scramble it, or use it as an omelet filling.

Cook kale in the oil for Improved Pasta Salad.

Add it to Fried Rice or Herby Rice or Egg Drop Soup. (See recipes in The Earthling's Cookbook.)

Sneak it into Honey Baked Lentils along with 1/3 cup extra water.

[katiesk]

i just throw it into anything. for instance - i made both salmon burgers and moose burgers recently and added some chopped kale into the meat before cooking.

i put it in salad along with lettuce.

soup.

macaroni and cheese.

quiche.

enchiladas, quesadillas, anything mexican!

[nicolelynn]

I used to not like it because I couldn't figure out how to prepare it. I like it one of two ways now: either raw in a smoothie with fruit and hemp seeds, or cooked well. I don't like it lightly sauteed, too chewy.

When I cook it I steam it in a bit of water for 10 minutes or so. Then add plenty of pressed garlic, grated ginger and sea salt and cook for a couple of minutes more. I stir in coconut oil just before serving, gives it a fresh, sweet taste.