The Best Kale Salad
Prep Time: 20 min
Ingredients
- ✓ 1 bunch lacinato kale, ribs discarded and leaves cut into thin strips
- ✓ 1 teaspoon olive oil
- ✓ 2 pinches salt
- ✓ ¼ cup olive oil
- ✓ 1 lemon, juiced
- ✓ 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- ✓ 1 teaspoon maple syrup, or more to taste
- ✓ ¼ teaspoon ground cumin
- ✓ 1 pinch garlic powder, or to taste
- ✓ 1 pinch cayenne pepper, or to taste
- ✓ salt and ground black pepper to taste
- ✓ 2 carrots, grated
- ✓ ½ cup frozen roasted corn (such as Trader Joe's®), thawed
- ✓ ¼ cup crushed tortilla chips
- ✓ ¼ cup dry-roasted almonds, coarsely chopped
- ✓ 2 tablespoons grated smoked white cheese (such as Beecher's® Smoked Flagship)
- ✓ 2 hard-boiled eggs, chopped