How to make honey and soy chicken that's a mouthwatering way to get kale onto your plate
Melanie Johnson shares a recipe that makes kale as delicious as it is healthy.
Kale recipes
Kale recipes have had some good press over the past decade – and quite rightly so, given the incredible health benefits and fabulous flavour.
It descends from the original wild Asian cabbage and was brought to us by the Celts.
It packs a powerful superfood punch, with more than twice the vitamin C of oranges, plus it contains Omega-3 fatty acids, more vitamin A than any other leafy green and more calcium than milk.
Curly kale was a staple of the European peasant’s diet throughout the Middle Ages, but made its way onto more noble tables by the 18th century.
Particularly popular in Scotland due its hardiness, it was grown in protected, purpose-built yards and most houses had one.
Today, this earnest vegetable is the star of the brassica family and impossibly chic – not to mention hugely versatile. It’s perfect for use in everything from soups to making chips. So here are our favourite kale recipes to help you enjoy it now, while it’s in season.
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Kickstart your detox with chicken-and-kale fritters with hummus
Melanie Johnson adds some spice to healthy kale, perfect for kickstarting your healthy eating in the New Year.
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Recipe: How to make blackberry, gorgonzola and walnut pizza
Just from the sound of it, you know this is one of those odd combinations which will work.
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Jerusalem artichoke and black garlic mash with cod, kale, Parma ham and kale pesto mayonnaise
Jerusalem artichoke is a quirky little vegetable.
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Tahini-marinaded kale with beetroot and sumac-roasted salmon
Melanie Johnson has ways to make eating kale a pleasure.
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Sweetcorn and seafood chowder in garlic-butter bread bowls
This delicious chowder recipe is summery in flavour, yet warming within.
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Port-roasted spatchcock chicken with kale and green lentils
Kale has come in for some good press over the past decade, and quite rightly so, given the incredible health benefits and fabulous flavour.
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Barbecued corn on the cob with rose harissa chicken and kale chips
Barbecued and served with rose harissa chicken or blended into quinoa soup, just two of our favourite corn on the cob recipes to try.
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Italian bean and bacon soup with kale
Baked with wasabi, or stirred into an Italian bean-and-bacon soup: just two of our favourite kale recipes.
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Pearl-barley risotto with curly kale
You can make crumble or risotto with the versatile vegetable curly kale.
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Roasted rolled leg of lamb with bagna cauda-drizzled cavolo nero
Make chips with cavolo nero, or blanche it and eat it with a leg of lamb.
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Roast partridge with blackberry sauce and colcannon
Blackberries have a natural affinity with apple and all game birds, particularly partridge.
