Kale & Kokosnoot Salad

 August 26, 2014

Our veggie box dictates a lot of our cooking these days, together with alongside only one-half a bunch of kale to complete off earlier the novel box arrived nosotros went scouring our cookbooks for a solution. This salad from Heidi Swanson's mass check the neb nicely - it was tardily plenty for a operate nighttime dinner, didn't require whatever shopping together with held out the hope of delicious toasted coconut.

I didn't create a swell chore on it - I'm withal mastering our rice cooker, together with the brownish rice injure upwards beingness a chip undercooked, spell my faffing most alongside it meant that the kale/coconut mix was slightly overcooked. It was a masterful display. Still, the recipe is pretty forgiving - the kale crisped upwards almost to kale chip texture, spell the extra dressing helped to soften the rice out together with the sweet, crispy kokosnoot flakes made everything better. We served it upwards alongside maple-miso tofu (another recipe that I messed upwards but got away alongside anyway).

Kale together with kokosnoot salad
(very slightly adapted from Heidi Swanson's Super Natural Every Day)

80mL olive oil
1-2 teaspoons sesame oil
2 tablespoons soy sauce
100g of kale
85g flaked coconut
250g cooked brownish rice (the original recipe uses farro, whatever grain volition do)

Preheat the oven to 180°C.

Cut the stems off the kale, take away the biggest stalky ribs together with and then roughly chop the leaves.

Combine the olive oil, soy sauce together with sesame crude oil inward a modest jounce together with milk shiver good to combine.

Combine the kale together with the kokosnoot flakes inward a large bowl alongside 3/4 of the dressing together with stir good to coat.

Spread the kale together with kokosnoot mix inward a large baking tray (or 2 if y'all quest 'em) together with bake for most fifteen minutes, until the kokosnoot is golden brownish - cash inward one's chips along an optic on it every five minutes or hence together with stir things some a bit.

Put the kale together with kokosnoot mix, the rice together with the final drizzle of the dressing into a bowl together with toss well.

Serve every bit a side dish for 4 (we paired it alongside maple-miso tofu) or a principal for two.