Recipe Box, Kale Citrus Salad
This salad is a great pairing with heavy winter comfort foods, you can make the salad and a creamy orange dressing to top it, in no time at all~
You can use any salad greens you like, I used kale, spinach and romaine
Chop up the kale leaves into bite size pieces, removing any hard thick stems if necessary, and massage the kale leaves. Seriously, just sort of roll them around on your cutting board massaging them gently, they love this!
The kale will repay you in spades by being softer and less bitter. You can read more about massaging kale here
Squeeze 1/2 of a navel orange into a jar, you need 1/4 cup
Cut up the rest of the orange into bite sized chunks, removing as much pith [the white stuff] as possible
The dressing gets creamy from the addition of sour cream or plain Greek yogurt
Toss it all together
and prepare to be happy happy!
Kale Citrus Salad and Creamy Orange Dressing
Ingredients
- 2 big handfuls kale leaves
- 2 big handfuls spinach leaves
- 1 heart of romaine
- 3-4 green onions sliced
- 1 large navel orange
- 1/4 cup fresh orange juice
- 2 T olive oil
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1 garlic clove * minced
- 1 heaping Tablespoon Greek yogurt or sour cream
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Massage kale by rolling around on a cutting board and squeezing gently.
- Chop into bite sized pieces, removing any tough stems.
- Tear spinach and romaine into small pieces.
- Put greens in a large salad bowl and add green onion.
- Halve orange and squeeze 1/2 for the juice for the salad dressing. Peel the other half and cut into bite sized chunks, removing pith. Add to greens
- Combine orange juice, olive oil, sugar, yogurt or sour cream, and garlic in a jar. Add a little salt and pepper. Shake shake shake. Taste and adjust seasoning. Serve over salad. Makes 3-4 servings
Notes
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for another printable version of Kale Citrus Salad click here
to see Ree Drummond’s recipe with goat cheese, click here
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Sounds wonderful Jenna! I think we would enjoy it with just kale, those bags are bottomless you know 🙂
This sounds delish Jenna. I had no idea a massage would make a difference in the taste of food, as we all know Kale can have a really bitter taste. We love salads here and what a good way to use all those oranges in the refrigerator!
This is a nice simple salad that looks very pretty Jenna. I love the dressing:@)
This salad looks so delicious, Jenna! How interesting that you added sour cream to that dressing. Can’t wait until I can get some kale growing in the garden again! Stay warm!
This looks delish!
This looks amazing! And healthy, too, which we all need. Thanks for sharing your recipe…can’t wait to try it. Pinning!
It’s me again…love, love, love this salad, Jenna. Our grocer never has Kale, so I used a package of spring greens and Romaine. It was superb! The oranges are very sweet right now, too. Your recipe is a winner, and I’ll be making it again. 🙂
Oh thanks Kim! So so happy you loved it! I hate that you can’t get kale 🙁
I can if I drive 30 minutes to get it. :-/
We will just love this Kale and Citrus Salad. Hope you are having a great week and thanks so much for sharing your post with Full Plate Thursday.
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Miz Helen