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Kale Salad with Sweet Potato and Persimmon

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Kale Salad with Sweet Potato and PersimmonWhile there’s something to be said for curling up on the couch in the softest blanket you own, hands cradling a bowl of marshmallow-swirled ice cream as you watch one of your favourite movies and the snow dances past the window beside you,

in truth nothing ever tastes quite so wonderful as a dish shared with people you care about, nothing,

but sometimes, you see, such people are far away, and so you have to settle for recreating, on your own, tastes that remind you of their smiles, perhaps

the Dirty Rice you’d always make with your mother, or your dad’s spaghetti bolognese,

Kale Salad with Sweet Potato and Persimmon

or maybe it’s a recipe you’ve never made before, like this kale salad with roasted sweet potato, persimmon and blue cheese, maybe you love kale salad, and although you’ve never tasted one quite like this before, you trust the recipe Ryan sent you because that boy has never yet let you down, and he sent it to you from a place where it’s sunny, still, sunny there, sunny always, like magic,

and so you make the kale salad because you know it will bring happiness, because the sweetness of the honey-fragrant persimmon will linger like sunshine on your lips and the sweet potato will evoke the rocket-sweet-potato-goat-cheese-salad your mother serves for Christmas lunch back home,

Kale Salad with Sweet Potato and Persimmonand the kale with its glossy tender softened-no-longer-bitter deep forest green silkiness will shine almost like a Christmas tree, and against the backdrop of the ever-falling, ever-settling, ever-pillowing, ever-crystallising, ever-white snow outside, the blue cheese will reflect and refract light, lending strength to the salad and,

all at once,

as you set down your empty salad bowl, not thinking of ice cream but softly humming the memory of a song from the movie you will later watch for the first time in years,

you realise that this kale salad is perfect and, when you close your eyes,

you could almost believe you are made of sunbeams.

Kale Salad with Sweet Potato and Persimmon

Kale Salad with Sweet Potato and Persimmon

Serves 2 - 4
Prep time 20 minutes
Cook time 25 minutes
Total time 45 minutes
Allergy Milk, Tree Nuts
Dietary Diabetic, Gluten Free, Vegetarian
Meal type Main Dish, Salad, Side Dish
Misc Gourmet, Pre-preparable

Ingredients

  • 1 Large sweet potato (about 3/4 lb / 375g)
  • 3 tablespoons olive oil
  • salt and pepper
  • 2 tablespoons lemon juice
  • 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard (I used a horseradish Dijon mustard)
  • 1 teaspoon honey (or agave nectar, if vegan)
  • 1 bunch kale, thick stems removed and leaves torn into bite-sized pieces
  • 1 Small fuyu or vanilla persimmon, thinly sliced
  • 1/3 - 1/2 cup blue cheese (omit if vegan)
  • 1/4 cup roasted slivered almonds or pine nuts

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 400°F (200°C) and line a baking tray with parchment paper. Peel and chop sweet potato into 3/4 inch cubes, then toss with one tablespoon oil and salt and pepper.
2. Roast sweet potato for 25 minutes, until lightly browned and tender, stirring a few times throughout.
3. Whisk together the remaining two tablespoons of olive oil with lemon, mustard, honey, a good pinch of salt and a few generous grinds of black pepper.
4. Pour the dressing over the kale in a large bowl and massage, massage, massage until the leaves are soft, glossy, and delicious. (This might take 5 minutes; the kale will drastically diminish in volume.)
5. Add the thinly sliced persimmon, nuts and sweet potato to the kale, and toss to combine. Top with blue cheese to serve.

Note

Easily doubled. Original recipe used pecorino instead of blue cheese, apple instead of persimmon, and no honey in the dressing.

Tastes even better the next day; kale salads generally keep well for a wee while in the fridge.

Shared at Ricki’s Wellness Weekend.


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