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This kale salad recipe is the best way to eat this leafy green! A simple dressing of lemon, garlic, and Parmesan makes it taste irresistible.

Are you ready for the best way to eat kale? This kale salad recipe has the power to transform the minds of the kale dubious everywhere. Now, it’s true: taking a bite of raw kale tastes like chomping a leaf right off a tree. But after you taste this kale salad, you’ll agree that those green leaves smothered in a lemony, garlicky Parmesan dressing can only be one thing: drop dead delicious.

There are a few types of kale you can find at the grocery store. Most mainstream groceries carry both Tuscan kaleandcurly kale, found in large bunches in the produce section. The best type for this kale salad recipe is Tuscan kale. It has a milder, sweeter flavor and is more suited for a salad where you’re eating the kale raw. If you can’t find it, curly kale works too.

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Let’s be honest: raw kale can taste pretty bitter (fact). But add a flavor popping Italian-style vinaigrette of lemon, Parmesan cheese, and garlic, and the kale mellows to meld beautifully with the other flavors. Even better: the sturdy texture of the kale holds up well in a salad, and provides an extra crunch when eating. Whenever we make this salad, we can’t stop eating it! Here are the main steps to make this kale salad (or skip to the recipe):

Love a good Caesar dressing instead? Kale Caesar Salad is another way to enjoy a good kale salad: and it’s very similar to this one. Instead, whip up our favorite homemade Caesar dressing to coat the kale leaves. The creamy dressing is irresistibly tasty, and we like it showered with crunchy panko breadcrumbs.

Why eat this kale salad recipe? Leafy greens like kale are some of the healthiest foods you can eat. Eating more kale is a great way to increase the total nutrient content of your diet! So making this salad makes sense all around. Here’s the breakdown:

Mexican Kale Salad

What’s the best way to stem or chop kale for this kale salad? We’ve toyed with various methods over the years, but we’ve finally ended up with one that is slick and simple:

This kale salad is classic and the perfect green salad to pair with for all sorts of dinner recipes. Since it’s Italian in vibe, it goes particularly well with Italian recipes. But it also truly pairs well with anything! It works in fall, winter, spring or anytime. Here are a few dinner recipes we’d pair it with:buying. It’s the one thing I can’t get myself to use. I either forget it’s there because I’m not used to having it in the fridge or I just don’t want it. Ugh, greens. I can’t keep wasting it but I have to find a way to get myself to eat salad. My solution? Kale. Yep, it’s time for kale salads.

Why kale salads? Well, I like kale. So there’s that, but kale doesn’t go bad as quickly as other softer greens. And if it wilts, you can repurpose the kale easily in cooked dishes, unlike say, romaine. A couple of these salads are my absolute favorites and they are my go-to recipes. If you’re not a fan of kale, check out these other awesome summer and winter salads.

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Mangiona w/ Caitlin Levin #29: Crunchy Greek Salad | The Jungalow – This is my favorite salad of all time. I’m obsessed! It’s a step above Greek salad, just make sure to get the right olives and don’t forget the mint.

Fall Harvest Honeycrisp Apple and Kale Salad | Half Baked Harvest – You don’t have to wait until fall to replicate this salad. Treat yourself to this delicious and seriously beautiful salad for lunch or dinner.

This is Probably the Best. Kale. Salad. Ever | The Coveteur – My other favorite is this easy-to-replicate salad. I love it because it’s easy but it’s also the perfect side salad and the pecorino makes it.

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This Roasted Beet and Burrata Kale Salad Is Meatless Monday Perfection | Chow Hound – This is more about the beets than anything else but it’s still considered a kale salad. And a yummy one at that. Honestly, anything with burrata is an immediate win.

Kale BLT Salad | Bon Appetit – Any excuse to eat bacon. Hey kale haters, will putting bacon in your kale salad get you to eat it? If not, just give the rest to me.

Massaged Raw Kale Salad | The Skinny Taste – Literally the easiest kale salad ever. You could make this yummy salad every day. It’s just five ingredients and that includes the dressing.

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Parmesan Pistachio Kale Salad | How Sweet Eats – It’s the creamy parmesan dressing with chives and dijon that got me with this one. Gotta love chives! It sounds so satisfying with the crunchy kale and salty pistachios.

Maple & Fitz’s Fig, Grapefruit and Kale Salad | Red Online – I know, figs aren’t as easy to find so this will be a seasonal dish unless you decided to use dried figs. Might work. Either way, this salad with grapefruit and goat cheese sounds so good.

Mexican Kale Caesar Salad with Golden Corn and Quinoa | College Housewife – I almost put a regular kale Ceasar recipe in here but you how to make caesar salad, so just add kale. But this, this is unique! I wouldn’t think to put these ingredients together but it sounds tasty.

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White Bean Kale Salad with Tahini Dressing | Minimalist Baker – Talk about a comfort salad, if that’s a thing. It sounds hearty, cozy, and easily crave-able. Perfect for a rainy day (Washington might get rain soon so I’m planning ahead).Wilted kale is the simplest and most delicious way of getting that highly nutritious green into your diet. Sautéed kale is an easy side dish that is perfect with spicy curries, stews and casseroles. The garlic and salted butter add wonderful depths to the kale, and it is almost too easy to even call it a recipe.

But anyway, here I will tell you how to cook kale in just 3 minutes - with just 3 ingredients! And did you know kale has major health benefits as well? This is almost too good to be true, but I'll tell you all about it below.

Kale is one of the healthiest and most nutritious-dense foods on earth. It's a member of the cabbage family, which makes sense as I don't think it works that great as a green in salads (wilted kale salad is a different story!). Kale is a little rough, bitter and hard on its own and that is why we are wilting it! - but it is SO HEALTHY.

How To Cook Kale

Kale is high in vitamin A, K, C (more than an orange!), B1, B2, B3, B6, manganese, calcium, copper, potassium, magnesium, iron and phosphorus. And 1 cup of kale is just a mere 33 calories! Doesn't it just sound way too good to be true? It's the Miss Universe of foods.

It is also high in antioxidants, which are good for the heart, blood pressure, they're anti-inflammatory - and guess what - even anti-depressant and anti-cancer! Kale can help lower cholesterol, which then reduces the risk for heart diseases. Here's a little breakdown of some of its nutrients:

Wilted kale is cooked or steamed kale, also known as sautéed kale, so it's drastically reduced in size and is much more soft. You know you can add a ton of spinach to a casserole or a curry, and it looks way too much but suddenly it turned into about nothing? That is wilted spinach. The same goes for kale, only that it keeps its shape a little better.

Creamy White Bean Soup With Kale

When spinach almost turns into a mush, kale still looks like kale, but wilted kale is miiiiles better than raw kale. And considering it better reduces cholesterol once it's steamed - it doesn't hurt to add a little butter for flavor, right? The butter adds a wonderfully nice touch to the kale, but you can omit it if you really want to keep it super duper healthy. But I'm pro flavor!

Anywhere you normally use wilted spinach, wilted kale can work too. But wilted kale can also substitute fresh spinach, such as a wilted kale salad. You can use wilted kale in this lemon chicken winter salad, instead of the fresh spinach. Same goes for this lemon chicken with spring greensand healthy halloumi quinoa salad. Again, instead of the wilted spinach in this vegan ginger lentil curry, you can serve wilted kale next to it. Easy winter comfort food!

A new favorite combination of mine is this sriracha honey glazed pork, this garlic kale and fried potatoes! Since kale is so versatile, I also add it as something green with my pumpkin gnocchi or even orange pepper roasted chicken.

Healthy Kale Recipe Ideas

For Thanksgiving, it would be amazing as an extra healthy side dish with your Citrus Rosemary Turkey. You could also serve it alongside other comfort dinners such as parmesan pumpkin pasta and spaghetti bolognese.