This salad is fat free and FULL of super nutrients. The seemingly complex combination of the kale’s robust leaves, the parsley’s flavor, the cabbage’s texture, the sea salt lime dressing, and the pomegranate seeds’ bursts of juice make this dish craveable for kale lovers and those who fear the super green.
This dish came to be because I was determined to find a way to get my family to eat kale …and even like it. I unleashed this salad on them during a large family gathering. It fooled everyone. When they’d finished cleaning the bowl, I excitedly announced that the dish they were all raving about was the healthiest thing on the table.
Kale is an extremely hardy green and holds up really well to being dressed and stored for days. I like to make it in bulk and eat off of it all week.
Don’t be intimidated by the pomegranate seeds! I recommend crunching them all the way through. The added fiber and nutrients won’t hurt you.
Occasionally, you can find pomegranate seeds in bulk (therefore helping you avoid the pomegranate splatter). Costco is your best bet.
Enjoy this beautiful, delicious, incredibly healthy salad!
Pomegranate and Kale Salad
Ingredients
- 1 head curly kale
- 1/2 head purple cabbage
- 1 bunch flat leaf parsley about 2 cups
- 2 pomegranates
- 5 limes
- 1 tablespoon sea salt
Instructions
- Remove the stems before finely chopping the kale and cabbage, then set aside.
- Roughly run knife through the parsley and toss with the kale and cabbage.
- In a bowl, juice the limes and add the sea salt to dissolve.
- Deseed the two pomegranates. The best way to deseed pomegranates is to cut the fruit in half then carefully break it apart with your hands and lightly brush the seeds away from the membrane. [Make sure to either wear an apron or something red! The juice stains.]
- Massage the kale, cabbage, and parsley with the sea salt lime dressing. You can perform this step a couple hours before serving. The acidic dressing will help breakdown some of the rough texture of the kale.
- Sprinkle the pomegranate seeds over the dressed salad and serve!
Nutrition
This is gorgeous and healthy TOO!! LOVE IT <3
I’m currently doing an anti-inflammatory diet and kale and pomegranates are perfect! So glad you got freshly pressed so I could find this. (Your photos are gorgeous too.)
pretty colorful and Christmasy colorful at that!
Your photographs are so fantastic! I don’t know how you do it! I have the hardest time photographing food and making it look like something someone (other than me) would want to eat. Also I love pomegranates–I’m trying this salad later this week! Great job!
Im going to have to make this sometime this month! sounds amazing!
I’m impressed that you got your whole family to eat kale! That’s not always an easy task. The salad looks so vibrant and delicious!
Looks delicious! I’m in. Great blog too 😉
Great idea to use the lime juice to break down the Kale. Wouldn’t a little olive oil work here too? Love the colors!
Absolutely! Especially if you’re not going to eat anything else with the meal. You need some healthy fat on your plate.
I just started experimenting with kale, your recipes look delicious! Thanks for the healthy ideas!
We made something like this — yours looks delicious too! Maybe this makes seeding the pomegranate easier? We carefully sliced into, then gently tore the pomegranate and tossed the pieces in a bowl of water. Then we picked and poked at the pieces, dislodging the seeds. Happily, the seeds fall and the light, white inner rind stuff floats. And yes! It stains the most tremendous dark pink! Imagine! Persephone ate only 6 of these marvelous seeds?
Great tip! Thank you. I will definitely give that a try.
I will definitely try this one!
lovely fresh looking salad what more could you ask for
awesome. love the photographs as well.
Looks amazing! Beautiful Photography!!
Thanks for sharing, I’m going to try it this week. It looks really good!!