Rubbed Kale Salad with Marinated Vegetables

I don’t know if you all understand what a magical technique it is to rub fresh kale with oil and salt to soften, as the base for an incredibly delicious and nutritious salad.  We recently featured Jen’s Super Powered Sesame Kale Salad, which is where we first learned of this brilliant tenderizing technique. It’s such a great way to incorporate raw greens into your diet.  Yesterday, Capers on Robson had 2 bunches of Kale on sale for $3 (deal!) so I just had to make another kale salad. This time though, I was pressed for time, so I also purchased some marinated vegetables from the deli; roasted garlic, roasted tomatoes and kalamata olives.  Tossed in some fresh avocado and a handful of hemp hearts and I had  a really easy, super yummy meal!

Ingredients:

1 head of Kale, washed and leaves ripped off the stem

1-2 tablespoons olive oil

1 teaspoon himalayan rock salt

2 tablespoons each, roasted garlic, roasted tomatoes and kalamata olives (or your favourite deli items-try artichokes!)

1/2 avocado, thinly sliced

handful of hemp hearts

fresh cracked pepper

cayenne powder to taste

Method:

Toss the ripped kale leaves into a large bowl and pour over the olive oil and rock salt.  Massage into the leaves until you feel them become soft and pliable (about 2 minutes).  Roughly chop your mixed marinated vegetables and toss them in along with the hemp hearts.  Top with sliced avocado and cayenne pepper and enjoy!

Try it, try it, try it…You’ll be amazed!

~The Vegan Project

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