I got to know about kale plant (eatable leaf cabbage), actually as well as about other green salad leaves types…, in the age of 38:) Not too late and just in time! After few experiments – two great tasting kale-salad versions are here.
Ingredients for version #1:
- Lacinato kale, 3-5 leaves
- Daikon radish, 100 g
- Radish, 3 pcs
- Charles butterhead lettuce, 1 pcs
- Celery stem, 1 pcs
- Long cucumber, 1 pcs
- Sweet chestnut, 10-15 pcs
- Peanuts, roasted and non-salted
- Turmeric root, fresh and shredded, 2 pcs
- Dill, fresh
- Basil leaves, fresh
- Mint leaves, fresh
- Flaxseed oil, 2 Tbsp
- Mustard, 2 tbsp
- Lemon juice, 10 ml
How to make it?
- Wash all vegetables and herbs
- Cut midribs of kale leaves (midribs will not be used for a salad)
- Remove outer layer of celery stem with a peeler
- Cut kale leaves into small pieces, add mustard, lemon juice and flax-seed oil and massage with a hand
- Cut all other vegetables, greens, chestnuts and add to massaged kale along with peanuts
- Mix all together. Its ready!
For the second version of kale salad, some ingredients of salad version #1 are not used and some ingredients are replaced (changes are marked in bold). The method of preparation is the same as in version #1.
Ingredients for version #2:
- Lacinato kale, 3-5 leaves
- Daikon radish, 100 g
- Radish, 3 pcs
- Charles butterhead lettuce, 1 pcs
- Celery stem, 1 pcs
- Long cucumber, 1 pcs
- Avocado, 1-2 pcs (instead of chestnuts as it was in version#1)
- Walnuts, soaked overnight (instead of peanuts as it was in version #1)
- Basil leaves, fresh
- Mint leaves, fresh
- Flaxseed oil, 2 Tbsp
- Mustard, 2 tbsp
- Lemon juice, 10 ml
- No turmeric root and no dill (as it was in version #1)
Important notes:
- Any new salad on this blog is a new taste and somehow unique. All the ingredients are put together with attitude and knowledge to match in taste and nutritional value. Many bloggers tell: “you can replace the ingredients with others according to the taste, what you have in a kitchen right now, etc.” I would say, such replacements usually led to all salads to have the same taste. Even worse, some combinations of plants/species/herbs/dressings/nuts, etc are not reasonable in regards to nutritional compatibility. And lastly, because of untested combinations, a salad could taste not as good as it should really be. Here we try to avoid monotony for taste receptors and failure in taste. So, to get a maximum well (wealthy:)) satisfaction from these salads – it is important to follow the list!
- A big bowl of this salad (one of the version at one time, of course:)) is a main and the only one dish for the dinner. Enjoy!
AlisaMGZN 
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