Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Raw Kale Salad

Today's recipe is for a Kale Salad.
To be clear I don't like salad dressings, raw or not. I think it has something to do with the vinegar. Anyhow this recipe calls for a dressing. It tastes fine without it though. Dagger likes dressing so I made it. I do like kale and seeing as there was a ton of it in the garden,
, i felt like I had to do something with it. so for this you will need.
 2 bunches of Dinosaur kale, thats the big flat leafy kind. de-stemmed and cut in to strips
some Red Cabbage ( i put some since not everyone is a fan, so use as much as you like here )
Fresh corn kernels off the cob. on decent sized ear should be good.
1 small tomato quartered a little onion finely chopped
some fresh parsely ( a bunch ) course chop
1/2 cup of pecans, also course chop
1 Mango Thast your salad. the recipe called for Papaya, but seeing how neither of us like it so well, and since I had some over ripe mangos I used that instead.
Chop all of the ingredients and mix in a bowl. Except the pecans and mango.
its important to remember when cutting a mango that there is a big seed in the middle and you just go around that. Then make slices in both directions flip inside out and then cut off the pieces.
Now time for the dressing.
 2 tablespoons of Apple cider vinegar
1 Lime ( juiced)
 2 tablespoons Olive Oil
2 tablespoons of Agave or other sweetener
1 tablesppon Mint ( Chopped)
1/2 clove garlic finely minced
Whisk all ingredients the recipe that I was using called for mashing the fruit and adding it to the dressing. I forgot that step. Oh well. Drizzle dressing over the salad and toss well with your hands. Put in the refrigerator for a couple of hours to allow the kale to soften up with the dressing. top with mango, and pecans prior to serving.

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