Massage your kale

And yes, massage your kale! Kale is a leafy green vegetable in the cabbage family. It offers a nutritional profile rich in vitamins, minerals and other valuable nutrients making it almost essential to a balanced diet. On the other hand, many people will find it too bitter or too harsh and will leave it aside. For these people, massage is the perfect solution!

But why ?

The action of massaging the kale will make it possible to obtain a more tender texture, reduce its bitterness and allow the vinaigrette to penetrate more into the fibers of the leaf.

How to massage your kale?

It's very simple. You literally have to massage the leaves! Make a manual movement as if crumpling a sheet of paper. Place your roughly torn or chopped kale leaves (green, red or black) in a large bowl. Remove the stem or not, your choice (if you remove it, reuse it in a broth, soup, juice, smoothie or freeze it for future use). Pour your vinaigrette or simply a little vegetable oil with salt and pepper. Massage vigorously. You can leave everything to marinate to allow the leaves to absorb more of the flavor of your vinaigrette or serve immediately.

Put some love into it, you will see the difference in this gesture!