My kale is starting to look more like a small forest of trees. Best way to eat these?
by InevitablePrimary720
My kale is starting to look more like a small forest of trees. Best way to eat these?
by InevitablePrimary720
8 Comments
Curly kale makes the best kale chips! I use oil, nutritional yeast, red pepper flakes, and salt. Lots of recipes online but I mostly use 350F-400F on the oven and bake in a single layer for about 10 min, flipping halfway. Keep a close eye on them after about 6-8 minutes. They go from wilty to nice & crunchy pretty quickly.
I keep snapping off the lower leaves as I want to use them. I remove the center rib and slice the leaves for salad or to sauté. Mine eventually succumb to pests in the Texas heat. 🙁
Zuppa toscana! I grow a ton of kale and soups like this are how most of it gets eaten. You can fit a LOT of kale into a pot of soup, especially since it cooks down while still having a nice texture.
I steam it for a minute, then add to eggs. Preferably with other garden veggies.
Kale freezes well. I just wash, cut and freeze in a ziploc.
Pretend you’re a dinosaur
Add it to mashed potatoes = colcannon!
Zuppa Toscana, or in smoothies. I like smoothies with 50/50 spinach and kale with banana, blueberries, mango, and whatever else is on-hand.
The tough stems are edible but can be woody, I usually strip the leaves and chop stems fine for soups. Fresh kale keeps about a week in the fridge.