• M137@lemmy.world
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    Kale is awesome in all forms. In soups, as crisps, stewed and everything else!

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    There’s only one way to eat kale: “Stamppot”

    Edit with simple recipe: You boil the kale. Boil some potatoes. Throw them together and mash them with a masher. Add some fine cut bacon cubes (lightly fried) if you like and add pepper and salt and gravy to taste. Don’t forget to serve “rookworst” on the side

  • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works
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    Garlic, motherfucker, do you use it!?

    (Love kale and the weird little mutants called kalettes. If you don’t use any aromatics or seasoning though, you’re gonna have a bad time)

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      Tbf I just think it’s not up to me to redeem something by adding more flavor to it. Either it brings something to the table itself or it can just go (to the trash can)

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    Of course kale is going to taste like shit if you dont properly cook it. Boil it in salted water with potatoes, strain it, mix it with olive oil and garlic and serve it with chicken.

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      I came here to say that, but you got here first, so have my upvote. :)

      Recipe:

      • bucket of kale leaves, shredded by hand, rinsed
      • half a lemon’s juice
      • some teaspoons of salt
      • several tablespoons of deactivated / roasted / nutritional yeast
      • some teaspoons of your favourite spices (garlic / onion / paprica / tumeric / anything goes)

      To be mixed in a huge bowl and laid out into 2 food dryers. Sorry, I don’t have exact quantities, I always use both of my food driers. I run them at +70 C.

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      Kale salad is pretty good too. Chopped up kale with broccoli crowns, blueberries, carrots , red onion sunflower seeds, and a pomegranate dressing.

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    This does not appear to be well known: kale really needs colder temperatures in order to taste best. It’s sweetest when it has been through a frost or two. Unfortunately that’s not always maximally profitable for Huge Giant Corporate farms and so your kale is grown in warmer temperatures and tends to be bitter.

    On the plus side, it’s incredibly easy to grow yourself.

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      Kale is quite more fibrous, it’s better cut in strips and blanched in salted water, then it gets softer. I quite like the taste, it’s a great winter vegetable, mixed with diced potatoes and carrots for example

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      Kale is a lot tougher. I honestly prefer kale stir fry over cabbage stir fry and in salads.

      Also kale chips.

      Unfortunately, kale has become a super food so it’s been kinda expensive.

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      Kinnnda, but if you treat it like lettuce you’ll be disappointed. It’s a lot chewier. Think of it as in between lettuce and cabbage. Unless you’re just bunging it in a soup you probably have to do a little more work on it.

      I like to “massage” when eating eating raw. That’s where you strip the leaves off the stalks and vigorously kneed and scrunch those up with your hands until they’re soft to the touch.

      Then you can throw in whatever dressing you like. Toasted sunflower seeds and dried cranberries are good at this stage, to really emphasise the toothiness of kale.

      It’s also kinda like spinach come to think of it. A lot of the same tricks work on it.

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    Sauteed kale in coconut oil is not even worthy of being considered shitty food porn; that’s a crime against humanity.

    And I speak as someone that is aiming at be crowned as the overlord of the shitty food porn in the respective /c/

    BRB, going to make food porn with kale and coconut oil.

    Now, it’s a challenge to make something good!