Creamy Kale Salad
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Whole Living, January/February 2011
- Yield Serves 4
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Ingredients
- 1 ripe avocado, halved, seed removed
- 2 tablespoons white wine vinegar
- 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
- 3 tablespoons walnut oil or extra-virgin olive oil
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1/2 bunch kale (8 oz.), stemmed and coarsely chopped
- 1 small red beet, peeled and thinly sliced
- 1 sweet, crisp apple, cored and cut into thin wedges
- 1/2 cup toasted walnuts, chopped
Directions
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Combine avocado, vinegar,
mustard, and oil in a food
processor. Pulse until smooth.
(It will be thick.) Season with
salt and pepper. -
Combine kale, beets, apple,
and walnuts in a large bowl.
Toss with avocado dressing.
Season with salt and pepper.
Serve immediately.
I swapped sunflower seeds for the walnuts since that's what I had available and used a coarse brown mustard instead of the dijon. I also used only 2 T of oil to save a little on fat and calories. To rwr, yes, it's a raw beet. I think next time I'll try this with regular salad greens since the raw kale was a little too hard core for my family. It's definitely a great recipe and one I plan to make again.
I have made this salad a number of times and it is a total crowd pleaser. I like to swap pecans in for the walnuts. YUM!!
It's all raw baby!
And adding raw foods to your daily plan is a great way to cleanse. Often times I'll even add raw foods (baby spinach) to a cooked lentil stew with maybe a dolap of non-fat Greek yogurt. Great way to get in raw food when you're craving something warm and comfy!
To reduce the calories I would add lemon juice to the dressing and cut back a third maybe on the oil.
You could substitute any green: baby spinach, chard even romaine or even mix it all. So you don't have to serve immediately, add a squirt of fresh lemon juice in the dressing to prevent it from turning brown. Slice the apples before serving. For fun I first pulsed a pitted date in my food processor to add a litttle sweetness to the dressing. Yum!This salad is CRAZY amazingly good and a perfect dinner if doing any sort of detox- rejuvination.
Does anyone know the calories per serving? Sounds delicious!
Has anyone substituted anything for the Kale? I don't have Kale on hand but have other greens. Thoughts?
Has anyone substituted anything for the Kale? I don't have Kale on hand but have other greens. Thoughts?
This sounds delicious. I love Avocados and like Walnut Oil. We had Beets and Pork Tenderloin for dinner last night. Thanks to Whole Living, I now know that the greens are as nutritious as the roots. It was actually very tasty and like Kale, I love how the greens don't really mush when cooked. On Saturday, at Whole Foods, I got to sample Rainbow Kale Slaw at a table promoting an upcoming cooking class there. I'll post that recipe on my Day 9 blog, due to character limitations here.
This has a surprisingly delicious combination of raw kale and raw beets. The avacado, apples and nuts made it all a scrumptious, unique salad!
Also assuming raw Kale?
Is this a raw beet or cooked?