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Serves
4
Author Notes
Kale is love a form of company who you bear no longer teach about great, but at the same time as you attain stare him, that you would possibly per chance even be repeatedly contented and a diminutive bit bowled over by how great you love him. This was as soon as the case the quite a lot of night when I had dinner at Co. in Lengthy island. Co. is identified for its pizza no longer its greens, but love many of the brand new-wave pizza areas in Contemporary York, its antipasti menu without considerations opponents its pizza. I ordered the kale salad with apples, roasted celery root and brown rice vinegar, and was as soon as reminded how great I love the mineral and earth and gutsiness of kale.
At house, I opted out of roasting celery root, and as a change subbed in toasted hazelnuts. And on a whim, I added some mustard greens and pecorino cheese. Exhaust any ratio of kale to mustard you love; or employ correct one extra or less inexperienced need to that you would possibly per chance no longer be concerned shopping each. Younger greens are easiest because they’re extra tender and candy. Pull the leaves from the stems, then plod the leaves into pieces.
A hidden agreeable thing about this salad is that it gets greater with a diminutive bit time to sit down down and relax. Whereas you bear it forward, proceed thru step 1 and let it sit for as a lot as Half-hour, then save it up — and feel each organized and virtuous. —Amanda Hesser
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Take a look at Kitchen-Approved
Substances
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5 cups curly kale and mustard inexperienced leaves, torn into diminutive pieces
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2 scallions, trimmed and thinly sliced on the bias
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2 tablespoons olive oil
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1 tablespoon brown rice vinegar
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Sea salt and coarsely ground murky pepper
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1 tart apple
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1/4 cup hazelnuts, chopped and toasted
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1/4 cup pecorino romano or parmesan, shaved with a vegetable peeler
Instructions
- In a orderly bowl, mix the kale, mustard greens, scallions, olive oil, vinegar, salt and pepper. Mix alongside with your hands to in actuality blend the dressing and rub it into the greens. Let the salad sit at the same time as you put collectively the relaxation.
- Core the apple. I love to achieve this with a melon baller. Thinly — love, orderly thinly — nick the two halves from stem to flower stay. Whereas you have gotten a mandoline, that is the perfect technique to inch. Add the apples to the salad and gently fold collectively so they bear no longer spoil in half. Taste and adjust seasonings.
- Spread the salad on a platter. Sprinkle with the hazelnuts and cheese shavings.
Before starting Food52 with Merrill, I used to be as soon as a meals author and editor on the Contemporary York Times. I’ve written a complete lot of books, including “Cooking for Mr. Latte” and “The Very crucial Contemporary York Times Cookbook.” I played myself in “Julie & Julia” — hope you didn’t blink, or that you would possibly per chance also have uncared for the scene! I are residing in Brooklyn with my husband, Tad, and twins, Walker and Addison.