Holiday Kale Salad
Nutritious and colorful, this delightful kale salad will add flavor, color, and texture to your holiday meal. A nutmeat mixture and pomegranates laced together with homemade dressing will have you coming back for more.
Ingredients
- 8 cups kale - 2 bunches washed, drained, and cut into bite-sized pieces
- 1/2 - 1 cup pomegranates
- 1 1/2 cups nutmeat - almonds cashews, pistachios, pecans, and walnuts. NO peanuts.
- 1 Tbsp. nutritional yeast
- 1 Tbsp. olive oil
- DRESSING
- 1 clove garlic
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- juice of one lemon OR 2 Tbsp. lemon juice
- 1/4 tsp. sea salt or regular salt
- 1/8 cup apple cider vinegar
Instructions
- Wash kale. Remove the vein.
- Cut kale into bite-sized pieces
- Chop garlic clove in food chopper/blender and add to nuts after mixing them.
- Put nuts into food chopper/blender and make into a chopped mixture, NOT powder
- Mix nutritional yeast with nuts (and garlic clove) and olive oil
- Add nutmeat mixture and pomegranates to kale
- Toss together well.
- Mix together ingredients for dressing
- Massage the leaves to get the dressing mixed through
- Pour over salad and refrigerate for 4 hours