This kale salad with smoky chickpeas is deliciously spiced with smoked paprika. Steam your veggies to retain their minerals and vitamins, marinate your kale to soften it up, and you'll love it. Make a batch of this salad and take it with you for lunch or picnic

Hi dear, as I promised you, I'll be eating a lot of kale salads this fall through winter, and I hope you too because kale is concentrated with a lot of healthy nutrients that can improve your health.

Here is another delicious kale salad recipe that I am sharing with you.

Massaged kale salad is packed with nutrients. Prefer steaming your veggies to retain the vitamins and minerals that are mostly destroyed by high and dry heat. This kale salad recipe is deliciously flavorful with dynamic of various textures.

For a quick version of roasted chickpeas, pan-roast your chickpeas, they will be as good as oven-roasted and they'll take you less time. Use smoked paprika to pan-roast your chickpeas, you'll not regret it!

What you'll love about this massaged kale recipe is how easily you can assemble it, besides, you can make it ahead of time. pack it for your office lunch or for picnics.

steamed cauliflower, sweet potato & butternut squash

How to Prep your Kale

Start by cleaning your kale leaves, then cut the leaves into bite-sizes
Mince the garlic
In a large bowl, bring the garlic and kale leaves, squeeze half a lemon on it, add salt and olive oil
Using your hands, press on the kale leaves and mix them well
Leave the covered to marinate as you work on with the other ingredients

How to make roasted chickpeas

Now, if you've never tasted anything with smoked paprika, girl, it's high time you equip yourself with this delicious spice!

Smoked paprika takes these chickpeas on another level!
Please, if you don't have a pressure cooker, or you don't have enough time to cook your chickpeas, take time to choose healthy canned ones.
Drain them well.
And you've to listen to me on this, drain-the-chickpeas-completely! otherwise, you'll not get the same results, my friend!
The thing here is to pan-roast the chickpeas in the smoked paprika
In a pan add some good amount of smoked paprika with some garam masala, add oil and stir well.
Please, please, never let your cooking oil smoke! that's how you create free radicals!
When the oil and spices are hot BUT not smoking add the well-drained chickpeas.
Roast the chickpeas stirring them quite often. The spices will coat the chickpeas but also on the pan! don't worry about that.
Cut off the heat, remove the chickpeas from the pan.

Now bring the massaged kale in the pan, stir and cover. Kale leaves will pick-up the coated spices from the pan.

Transfer the kale back to the big bowl and then go ahead in assembling the massaged kale salad with smoky chickpeas as on the recipe card here below.

Why will you love this massaged kale salad recipe?

Because...gal;

It has only 6 main ingredients
It will take you less than 30 mins to assemble
It's very healthy, filling, and very delicious
It's a whole meal on its own
You'll have a good amount of vitamins A, C, and K, proteins, minerals, and fiber.
Also, it'll provide you with a lot of antioxidants and anti-inflammatory properties.

I used large chunks of veggies, for I know how difficult it can be to chop veggies when you're ill. You can, however, cut them into small pieces once you've steamed yours.

I don't go for any sauce with this kale salad, because there's already enough oil used during the preparation. However, feel free to add any healthy sauce of your choice.

I hope you'll love this massaged kale salad with smoky chickpeas as much as I do.

Let me know by commenting below. Thank you in advance for pinning and sharing this kale salad recipe.

My love to you, Githu.

I've gathered for you some more salads

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marinated kale bowl with smoky chickpeas

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