Kale is everywhere—in juices, smoothies, salads, and everyone is talking about. Are you curious about what Kale is and why it’s so good?
Kale is a dark leafy green vegetable; it is a similar vegetable to cabbage, with green or purple leaves. It can be eaten raw, steamed, sautéed, blanched, baked, and even added to a smoothie or juice!
Kale provides the body with fiber and chlorophyll, both of which support the body’s natural detoxification efforts. Fiber binds with toxins and other undesirables in your digestive tract and helps usher them out. Chlorophyll helps to remove heavy metals and other toxins from the body. In order to successfully detox you need to get the waste out.
Here are some easy ways to start incorporating kale into your diet:
- Add some to your salad! Just break the leaves off the stem, maybe massage the kale a bit, then eat with your other greens in your salad!
- Sautee it with some extra virgin olive oil as a great side! Add salt, pepper, maybe some garlic?
- Make Kale chips! Break the leaves off the stem, drizzle with olive oil, add some seasoning and bake approximately 10 minutes
- Blend a handful of it for a delicious, refreshing juice….see below for my recipe for Kale Lemonade!
Kale Lemonade is simple if you have a juicer. But if you have a The Baby Bullet around, then it’ll do the trick.
If you don’t really enjoy veggies, juicing them is a great way to incorporate them into your diet.
So here’s what you’ll need:
Gear
- Juicer
- Knife
Ingredients
- 3 large kale leaves
- 1 apple, cored and chopped
- 2 lemons, juiced
- 1 cup filtered water
Directions
Wash all ingredients.
Remove thick center rib of kale leaves and apple core.
Juice all ingredients.
Serve.