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10 delicious, healthy kale recipes

From pilafs to salads, and a hearty soup, kale adds a green burst of nutrition to these delicious dishes.
This recipe can be made in less time than you'd wait for take-out delivery.Satisfy your desire for a super-nutritious hot meal made in 20 minutes.

(Photography: Christie Vuong. Produced by Stephanie Han Kim. Food styling: Ashley Denton. Prop styling: Cailen Speers Prop credit: Spoons, courtesy of Homsense.ca)

8 Wintery kale recipes

Wheat-Berry, Kale And Cranberry Salad

You can enjoy this tossed salad for lunch, dinner or both (we bring our leftovers to work for an enviably simple and healthy meal). Get the wheat-berry, kale and cranberry salad recipe.

Salad with kale, cranberries, chopped onion and wheatberry on an orange plate on an orange table.(Recipes by Irene Ngo; Produced by Stephanie Han Kim, Sun Ngo and Aimee Nishitoba; Photography by Erik Putz and Christie Vuong; Food styling by Ashley Denton; Prop styling by Madeleine Johari)

Kale Salad With Sweet Potatoes And Walnuts

Filled with wonder wintery vegetables, this kale salad with sweet potatoes and walnut recipe is a great way to pump up your nutrient intake (it's loaded with Vitamin A).

Photo, Erik Putz.

Kale Salad With Sweet Potatoes And Walnuts on a white platter next to salad tongsKale with sweet potatoes

Kale Pesto Pasta

There are so many healthy ingredients in this pesto, you’d be forgiven for assuming it won’t taste as delicious as it does. Get the kale pesto pasta recipe.

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a white saucepan filled with kale-pesto pasta; the pesto is made with kale; parmesan; walnuts and edamame and garlic and olive oil; the pasta is tagliatelle; for a post on an easy, healthy weeknight kale-pesto pasta recipe(Photo: Erik Putz)

Kale And Spinach Hand Pies

These personal pies are so tasty, they're sure to be entered into the regular rotation for lunch and dinner (and maybe breakfast too!). Get our kale and spinach hand pies recipe.

Two kale and spinach hand pies, one broken to show the kale filling spilling out, on a white plate over an illustration of kale on a white surface(Photo: Roberto Caruso)

Quinoa and kale pilaf

Served with our honey-ginger tofu, this quinoa and kale pilaf recipe is a satisfying and healthy meal for Meatless Monday.

Photo, Angus Fergusson.

Honey-Ginger Tofu served over Kale And Quinoa for a post on an easy, healthy honey ginger tofu with kale and quinoa recipe for dinner(Photo: Angus Fergusson)

Kale caesar salad with tofu croutons

Our creamy kale Caesar salad with tofu croutons recipe version dresses superfoods kale and cherries in a tangy, creamy vinaigrette (shhh, it’s tofu!) that’s outrageously good.

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a plate of healthy kale caesar salad with tofu dressing and tofu croutons on a silver plate next to a wood fork, topped with parmesan shaving and next to a block of parmesan(Photo: Roberto Caruso)

Lentil, kale and sausage soup

A hearty, veggie-laden soup that will warm you up, even on the chilliest winter evening.

Photo, Roberto Caruso.

Superfood salad with creamy cashew dressing

From kale to cashews, this salad is packed with our favourite superfoods. It makes a lot, so be sure to reserve some without the dressing. (The leftovers are perfect for work lunches.)

Photo, Erik Putz.

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Hearty Tuscan Soup

Prepped in 10, ready in 30! Serve with a glass of Tuscan red wine. Get our hearty Tuscan soup recipe.

Soup with beans and kale in yellow bowl.Photo, Erik Putz.

Kale, red pepper and quinoa toss

A super-nutritious dinner packed with kale (and kidney beans for extra protein) that's ready in just 20 minutes. Get the recipe.

Recipe from Quinoa Revolution by Patricia Green and Carolyn Hemming.

This recipe can be made in less time than you'd wait for take-out delivery.Satisfy your desire for a super-nutritious hot meal made in 20 minutes.Kale, red pepper and quinoa toss

Related:
5 reasons to include kale in your diet
How to de-stem kale and other leafy greens
The secret to perfect kale chips

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