Kale Salad with Butternut Squash:
In this salad recipe, chopped kale is tossed with roasted butternut squash, blue cheese, pomegranate seeds and a honey-cider vinaigrette. It’s such a simple salad, but it’s so good that I could eat the entire thing! And it’s so pretty and colorful that I love to serve it over the holidays.
The Everyday Squash Cook
This recipe comes from The Every Day Squash Cook by Rob Firing, Ivy Knight and Kerry Knight. I’m completely enamored with this cookbook! It’s full of recipes that utilize all kinds of varieties of squash. Here are a few of the pages I have tagged to make very soon: Butternut “Bacon,” Grilled Cheese Sandwiches with Pumpkin and Brie, Spaghetti Squash Soup with Coconut Milk and Ginger, Roast Chicken Stuffed with Squash and Wild Rice, Spinach Salad with Acorn Rings and Warm Bacon Vinaigrette, Creamy Acorn Squash Polenta, Zucchini Refrigerator Pickles, Squashsicles, Butternut Brownies, and Zucchini- Walnut Loaf with Lemon Glaze. Doesn’t it all sound AMAZING??
If you’re kind-of afraid of kale or if you think you don’t like it… give kale a chance! If you’re not happy with the texture of raw kale, toss the salad with the dressing and give it some time to “marinate.” The dressing will soften the kale, and you can then taste the salad and declare, “I love kale!” The roasted squash and the sweet and tangy dressing are a perfect pairing with the kale. The strong, wonderful flavor of blue cheese and the sweet pomegranate seeds round it all out. Have I told you how much I love this salad?!
Substitution suggestions:
Substitute feta cheese for the blue cheese Substitute dried cranberries for the pomegranate seeds Substitute chopped red leaf lettuce for the chopped kale
I’m going to add chicken to this and call it a main dish salad for dinner tonight. I’ll make it again for Thanksgiving, and I’ll make it again for Christmas because of its extreme festive-nature.
Here are a few more recipes using kale that you might like to try:
Roasted Garlic Kale Hummus Berry and Bacon Kale Salad with Blackberry Jam Vinaigrette Butternut Squash Soup with Kale Garlic Bacon Kale Butternut Squash and Kale Soup with Fresh Herbs and White Beans Baked Kale Chips
