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19 Kale Recipes to Add to Your Rotation

By Food & Wine Updated November 16, 2020
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Roasted Butternut Squash with Chorizo Spiced Kale
Credit: Photo by David Malosh / Prop Styling by Amy Wilson / Food Styling by Maggie Ruggiero

Hearty, verdant kale is a leafy green we can never get enough of, and in this roundup, we've gathered many different ways you can enjoy it. There are delicious kale salad recipes, of course—for example, Justin Chapple's kale Caesar salad with light and crispy fried chickpeas and a crunchy root vegetable salad from chef Marcus Samuelsson. But you can also turn kale into pesto, fold it into macaroni and cheese, and include it in pakoras as well. Read on for some of our favorite ways to use kale, including kale soup recipes, a kale taco recipe, and more.

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Chickpeas and Kale in Spicy Pomodoro Sauce

Chickpeas and Kale in Spicy Pomodoro Sauce
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Chef Missy Robbins of Brooklyn's Lilia restaurant swaps chickpeas for pasta in her riff on spicy pomodoro. She finishes the dish with a shower of fresh herbs and salty pecorino cheese.

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Kale-and-Shiitake Fried Rice

Kale-and-Shiitake Fried Rice
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This comforting, vegetable-packed rice is infused with ginger. It's best made with day-old rice to absorb all the flavorings.

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Chow Fun with Roast Pork and Kale-Tomato Salad

Chow Fun with Roast Pork and Kale-Tomato Salad
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Chow fun noodles are the base for this unconventional dish, from chef Sheldon Simeon, that's topped with roast pork and a tangy kale salad and served with a buttery broth.

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Sweet Brown Rice Risotto with Kale and Cremini

Sweet Brown Rice Risotto with Kale and Cremini
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"Despite its name, sweet brown rice isn't sweet," says chef Marco Canora of Hearth in New York City. Instead, this short-grain glutinous rice resembles whole-grain sushi rice. Here, Canora uses it to make a hearty vegetarian risotto packed with cremini mushrooms, Tuscan kale, onion, thyme and freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.

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Squash-and-Kale Toasts

Squash-and-Kale Toasts
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Chef Steven Satterfield of Miller Union in Atlanta is a huge fan of kale—especially when it's combined with sweet roasted squash. Look for Tuscan kale (also called Lacinato or Dinosaur kale) when possible; it's tender and tasty. You can eat these toasts as an afternoon snack or serve them to guests during cocktail hour.

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Kale Caesar with Fried Chickpeas

Kale Caesar with Fried Chickpeas
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This tangy Caesar salad from F&W's Justin Chapple is topped with light, airy and super-crunchy pan-fried chickpeas.

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Pork-and-Kale Soup with Sizzling Puffed Rice

Pork-and-Kale Soup with Sizzling Puffed Rice
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"I love food that makes noise," says chef Edward Lee. When F&W challenged the Top Chef Season 9 contestant to make a fast dish with pork, kale, and white wine, he created a deeply flavorful soup, then added crumbled crispy rice cakes that crackle as they hit the broth.

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Kale Rice Bowl

Kale Rice Bowl
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In this simple rice bowl, Kay Chun combines pork and kale with an abundance of fresh herbs for a dish that's both hearty and delightfully fresh-tasting.

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Kimchi-and-Kale Fried Rice

Kimchi-and-Kale Fried Rice
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When chef Rachel Yang finishes a long shift at her Seattle restaurant Joule, this fried rice is her go-to quick snack. It's a great use for all of that leftover takeout rice and relies mostly on pantry staples, as long as you have gochujang, a Korean chile paste, in your pantry.

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Cabbage-and-Kale Soup with Farro

Cabbage-and-Kale Soup with Farro
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"I love a really flavorful pot of greens," says chef Melissa Perello. For this kale-and-cabbage soup, she uses just a little bit of pancetta and a Parmesan-cheese rind to give the broth a rich flavor. "It's definitely the kind of dish that tastes even better the next day," she says. There's nothing better than a dish that keeps on giving.

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Kale Salad with Root Vegetables and Apple

Kale Salad with Root Vegetables and Apple
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This refreshing, super-healthy 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.

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Kale-Basil Pesto

Kale Basil Pesto
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This fall-forward pesto bolsters traditional basil with Lacinato kale for extra heartiness. Winemaker Clare Carver recommends choosing a mild, smooth extra-virgin olive oil here for a buttery richness that complements the toasted walnuts and balances the fresh garlic.

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Buttermilk Macaroni and Cheese with Baby Kale

Buttermilk Macaroni and Cheese with Baby Kale
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A quick sauté renders baby kale leaves perfectly tender, allowing them to almost melt into the buttermilk-enriched béchamel in chef and cookbook author Alexander Smalls' riff on mac and cheese. For a smooth sauce, make sure all of the dairy is at room temperature.

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Roasted Butternut Squash with Chorizo-Spiced Kale

Roasted Butternut Squash with Chorizo Spiced Kale
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With its earthy sweetness and dense texture, butternut squash makes a hearty vegetable steak. At Chaval in Portland, chef Damian Sansonetti highlights its complexity with his chorizo spice mix. He blooms the blend of cumin, Pimentón, and coriander in oil to release its aroma, which provides a smoky foundation for this shoulder-season dish.

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Baby Kale Stir-Fried with Oyster Sauce

Baby Kale Stir-Fried with Oyster Sauce
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"This recipe is my supermarket take on stir-fried water spinach, a go-to vegetable for everyday Viet meals," Andrea Nguyen writes. "Prewashed greens don't release much liquid, which can dilute flavors and turn a stir-fry sizzle into a fizzle."

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Ribollita

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Adam Leonti's ribollita recipe is packed with Yukon Gold Potatoes, cannellini beans, kale, and more.

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Sausage, Kale, and Potato Skillet Supper

Sausage, Kale, and Potato Skillet Supper
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"The brilliant thing about this recipe is that you can cook it all in one skillet," Klancy Miller writes. "The key is adding each ingredient at the right time so that everything cooks without burning."

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Chicken Tortellini Soup with Kale

Chicken Tortellini Soup Recipe
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Fresh ingredients team up with store-bought shortcuts to get this comforting dinner on the table in just over 30 minutes.

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Kale-and-Corn Pakoras

Kale and Corn Pakoras Recipe
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A combination of chickpea and rice flours yields a batter that makes these pakoras fry up light, lacy, and extra crunchy. Sweet summer corn and peppers join with hearty kale to give these vegetarian fritters extra heft.

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    1 of 19 Chickpeas and Kale in Spicy Pomodoro Sauce
    2 of 19 Kale-and-Shiitake Fried Rice
    3 of 19 Chow Fun with Roast Pork and Kale-Tomato Salad
    4 of 19 Sweet Brown Rice Risotto with Kale and Cremini
    5 of 19 Squash-and-Kale Toasts
    6 of 19 Kale Caesar with Fried Chickpeas
    7 of 19 Pork-and-Kale Soup with Sizzling Puffed Rice
    8 of 19 Kale Rice Bowl
    9 of 19 Kimchi-and-Kale Fried Rice
    10 of 19 Cabbage-and-Kale Soup with Farro
    11 of 19 Kale Salad with Root Vegetables and Apple
    12 of 19 Kale-Basil Pesto
    13 of 19 Buttermilk Macaroni and Cheese with Baby Kale
    14 of 19 Roasted Butternut Squash with Chorizo-Spiced Kale
    15 of 19 Baby Kale Stir-Fried with Oyster Sauce
    16 of 19 Ribollita
    17 of 19 Sausage, Kale, and Potato Skillet Supper
    18 of 19 Chicken Tortellini Soup with Kale
    19 of 19 Kale-and-Corn Pakoras

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