Easy Kale Salad With Lemon Vinaigrette

Check out this flavorful, yet easy kale salad to add to your list of weeknight fave’s!

Honest confession: I think kale is just okay. Please don’t hate me!

Lets get real, the opinions on kale can be rather polarizing. It either gets a really, really bad rap. OR people are ALL about it. I, however, don’t really care that much.

It was quite interesting living in an area full of hippies (they were ALL about kale), and then moving somewhere that was the extreme opposite.

I’ve brought this salad to events while living in both places. The initial reactions I got for bringing kale to the party were startlingly different (to say the least)… One party was stoked, while the other was almost…shall we say, terrified?

BUT in the end both parties wound up liking this recipe…

Proving that you CAN actually make a kale salad taste good, to the majority, even!

The vinaigrette is where it’s at! It’s made from scratch with lemon, herbs, garlic, and honey. Not to mention, fresh cucumbers and walnuts add the perfect amount of crunch.

Life is short, so lets get right to it…

The Ingredients…

The Dressing:

• 1/4 cup olive oil
• 1/8 cup Lemon Juice
• 2 teaspoon Honey OR 1 tsp Monkfruit Sweetner, (if sugar free or keto)
• 1 teaspoon Apple Cider Vinegar
• 1/2 teaspoon Thyme
• 1/4 teaspoon Salt
• 1/2 teaspoon Pepper
• 2 cloves garlic mince

The Salad:

• 1 bunch Lacinato kale
• 1 pint Cherry Tomatoes
• 1/2 large Cucumber
• 1/4 Shallot
• 1/4 cup Finely Shredded Parmesan
• 1/2 cup Walnuts

The Recipe…

1. Wash, de-stem, and chop kale.
2. Cut cherry tomatoes in half, long ways.
3. Using a potato peeler, peel half of the cucumber skin off of the cucumber. Chop into half moons.
4. Chop shallot finely.
5. Add ingredients to a large bowl.
6. In a separate smaller bowl, mix salad dressing ingredients very well and then add to salad, lightly tossing.
7. Let salad sit in refrigerator for at least 10 minutes (to allow the dressing to soak into the kale).
8. Top with Parmesan and walnuts.
9. Enjoy!