Kale Salad with Bacon–Brown Sugar Vinaigrette
Cookbook author and TV cook Ayesha Curry dresses her tasty kale, apple and cranberry salad with a deliciously warm dressing made with rendered bacon fat, brown sugar and apple cider vinegar.
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Chile-Kale Salad with Fennel
Rethink your classic kale salad with this Indian-inspired version from Graffiti Earth chef Jehangir Mehta. In place of croutons, Mehta uses store-bought crispy chickpeas for that perfect crunch.
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Kale Salad with Root Vegetables and Apple
This refreshing, superhealthy salad is one of chef Marcus Samuelsson’s favorite ways to showcase kale; massaging the leaves with vinegar, salt and olive oil makes them tender and sweet. This recipe is adapted from the chef’s book Marcus Off Duty.
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Kale & Apple Salad with Pancetta and Candied Pecans
Kale is a marvelous green for salads because it's hearty enough to handle hefty ingredients like nuts and meat, plus it doesn't wilt as it sits on the table. When chef Ryan Hardy makes this kale salad for Thanksgiving dinner at Montagna at the Little Nell in Aspen, Colorado, he deep-fries the pecans, but it's quicker (and less messy) to toast them in the oven.
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