Nutrition update - Health & Fitness

Three ways with Kale


Anyone else notice the recent hype about Kale?? 

Apparently, Kale is filled with heaps of nutrients, powerful antioxidants, vitamins, folate, magnesium, iron, vitamin A, K, C, calcium… the list goes on!  Its even been claimed that Kale can help improve your skin, metabolism, lower cholesterol levels, and is an good detox food.  Sounds too good to be true!

It sounded so amazing that I just had to try it for myself!  I bought 1.5kg of organic kale from Huckleberry Farms http://www.huckleberryfarms.co.nz awesome shop, they delivered it to my straight to my door the very next day.

I made this juice, which was actually really nice! I even got my 4 year old daughter to drink it!  I used my juicer to juice a bunch of Kale leaves, 2 granny smith apples, and celery.  Talk about healthy!! And  it actually tasted really good, it left a nice fresh, clean and healthy feel.

I’ve come across a few smoothie recipes with blueberries and bananas so I might have to give those a go too.

I also made a Kale salad – in this I added grilled chicken, mushrooms, red onion, walnuts, and feta.  Then I sprinkled some salt, tarragon, pepper and apple cider vinegar.  This was also really delicious.  

Then, to top it all off I made some kale chips.  These were really easy and my kids even dug into them!

 

All you need to do is:

 1.       Preheat the oven to 180 degrees, line an oven tray with baking paper

2.       Wash and thoroughly dry Kale (about a bunch)

3.       Chop the Kale leaves off the steams and cut into little pieces

4.       Drizzle oil with olive oil – or spray with cooking spray

5.       Spinkle with salt

6.       Bake until the edges brown (but don’t burn) – approximately 10 minutes
 

A few tips… you can use any seasoning you like just don’t use too much salt, keep an eye on them as they start to brown pretty quickly.  

These are really easy, simple, and quick to whip up when you get the munchies!