Anyone else have a love hate relationship with salads? I love to eat them but I hate that they are too bland, unhealthy, complicated, and just downright weird at times. I’ve found that I love chopped salads (meaning the leaves themself are chopped finely) because of how easy they are to eat. Somehow not shoving big leaves in my mouth just tastes better. I was chatting with my friend today about kale salads specifically, and we were saying how we love getting them at restaurants (kale caesar salad anyone?) but never remember to make them at home. Well, here we are. This is the best chopped kale salad and is inspired by a family friend that owns a restaurant and when she makes this salad for me she usually adds chicken cutlet…is the Italian in me showing?
Ok, enough, let’s get to it! Here is an amazing, crunchy, refreshing, just the best chopped kale salad with goat cheese and homemade vinaigrette.
PS if kale is not your thing, check out my insanely delicious Arugula and Fennel Salad.
Ingredients:
- Kale salad
- Carrots, diced
- Cherry tomatoes, halved
- Craisins
- Walnuts
- Goat cheese
- EVOO
- Balsamic of your choice (I used glazed this time)
- Lemon juice
- Honey
- Salt
- Pepper
Instructions:
1. Chop/dice your kale, carrots, and cherry tomatoes.
2. In a salad bowl add your kale, carrots, cherry tomatoes, walnuts, and craisins.
3. Top with goat cheese.
4. For the dressing, add extra virgin olive oil, balsamic vinegar, lemon juice, honey, salt, pepper to a bowl and whisk until well blended. If too acidic, add in more honey. If too sweet, add in more balsamic vinegar.
5. Add your dressing, mix and ENJOY!
That’s the that on that on the best chopped kale salad you will have all summer. Tell me how you like it!
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again – I’m in love with our bowl sets. This white bowl that I put my salad in is $4 from Target. We got 4 of them and they are HIGH quality and so beautiful.
The little bowl that the dressing in is part of this set from Amazon and we’ve had this set forever. Highly recommend.