Kale Salad Recipe,
Eat Your Greens In a Raw Kale Salad

Enjoy this yummy raw kale salad recipe and get tons of vitamins and minerals at the same time.

Eating raw, fibrous dense foods helps to tone the digestive muscles and moves things through the body more effectively.

But I know what your thinking... raw kale?

For years I stayed away from raw kale, I actually feared eating it because I knew it would cause digestive turmoil.

But, what I didn't realized is that if you know how to prepare it in the right way, it becomes a completely digestible leafy green that is still a raw food and packed with great stuff.

Blending kale up in a green smoothie or raw soup is one way to prepare it, which is best for those who are Not "salad eaters."

The other is to make a raw kale salad!

Many people actually CRAVE dark greens. They just don't know it until they eat them. This salad is the perfect opportunity to find out!

Once you try it, trust me, you will be telling your friends and sharing your salad at potlucks.

This recipe works best with the "dino (dinosaur) kale" variety.

Dino kale is often the darkest of the kale varieties, which means it has an abundant of chlorophyll.

Its texture and sweetness are the best for this recipe. When making kale chips, however, you want to use a leafier kale, like curly kale.

Raw Kale Salad Recipe

Ingredients:

• dino kale (two or three bunches)
• 1/2c chopped fennel bulb
• 2 carrots
• 1 red bell pepper
• 3 celery hearts

You can use your favorite dressing as long as it has lemon or vinegar. We recommend this one, it is our personal favorite.

Dressing:

• 4T olive oil
• 1/8t salt
• 1/8t stevia (or other sugar substitute)
• 2T apple cider vinegar
• 1T nutritional yeast
• 1t dulse flakes
• 2T toasted sesame oil

Directions:

The key to preparing the kale is to marinate it for a few hours at room temperature, so the acids in the dressing break it down, soften it and make the life-force in it fully digestible.

To prepare the kale you will need to remove part of the tough inner stem. To do this: fold the leaf in half and cut along the edge of the stem where it is the thickest.

From here you can place your kale pieces in the Cuisinart.

1. Processing the kale in a food processor is the easiest way to get the perfect size pieces for your kale salad.
2. Chop, grate or process the rest of the veggies.
3. Mix up your dressing and massage it into the salad.
4. Let marinate for a few hours at room temp or overnight in the fridge.

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