Kale again

[pegkerr]

This is the recipe that got me turned on to eating kale:

Braised Kale with Bacon and Cider
From Cooking Light


This recipe calls for what might appear to be a lot of kale, but it wilts to a manageable amount in the pan. The dish is a suitable side for roast chicken or pork. Also, consider using kale as a stand-in for spinach in other dishes. This low-calorie side dish has about 15 percent of the minimum daily recommended amount of fiber.

2 bacon slices
1 1/4 cups thinly sliced onion
1 (1-pound) bag chopped kale
1/3 cup apple cider
1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
1 1/2 cups diced Granny Smith apple (about 10 ounces)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

Place a Dutch oven over medium heat. Add bacon; cook 5 minutes or until crisp, stirring occasionally. Remove bacon from pan, reserving 1 teaspoon drippings in pan. Crumble bacon, and set aside.
Increase heat to medium-high. Add onion to pan; cook 5 minutes or until tender, stirring occasionally. Add kale, and cook 5 minutes or until wilted, stirring frequently. Add cider and vinegar; cover and cook 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add apple, salt, and pepper; cook 5 minutes or until apple is tender, stirring occasionally. Sprinkle with bacon.

Yield: 6 servings (serving size: 2/3 cup)

NUTRITION PER SERVING
CALORIES 75(28% from fat); FAT 2.3g(sat 0.8g,mono 0.9g,poly 0.4g); PROTEIN 2.5g; CHOLESTEROL 3mg; CALCIUM 71mg; SODIUM 255mg; FIBER 2.1g; IRON 1mg; CARBOHYDRATE 12.7g

Judy Lockhart
Cooking Light, JANUARY 2004

I have substituted orange juice concentrate for the apple cider. Works great. Yum.

Comments

[copperwise.livejournal.com]

Drooling now...

[adjudicated.livejournal.com]

This looks good, Peg.

Hmm, what is a 'Dutch oven'? I've heard the term over the years, but I've never encountered one myself. Is it like a crockpot?

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

A large pot or kettle, often made of cast iron, with a tight-fitting lid so steam cannot readily escape. It's used for moist-cooking methods, such as braising and stewing. I just use my big skillet fry pan with a lid, and it works perfectly well.

Dutch Ovens

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

I forgot to add this in my earlier post (which got separated from this string 'cuz I wasn't watching was I was doing...), but the best way to use a dutch oven over an open fire it to build up a good size bed of coals away from the main fire, plop the dutch oven on the coals, then shovel more coals on the lid (which is why there's a 1/2 to 3/4 lip along the outside) so the food inside is cooked from both the top & bottom. Sort of a primitive microwave...

[sternel.livejournal.com]

...so my mom kindly tossed leftovers from dinner into tupperware for people to take for lunches today. ((i love living at home.))

yup. contained kale.

It must be a plot. =)

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Yeah. That's about right.

You can modify that recipe in about a zillion different ways.

B

[misia.livejournal.com]

at our house the preferred method involves anchovies and dried crushed red pepper. so if delia & fiona say it's icky *now*... just imagine!

[peacockharpy.livejournal.com]

That sounds fabulous. Will have to inflict that on my family. :)

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

It is good! (Mmm, my mouth is watering just thinking of it.) If you do try it, let me know your family's verdict!

Dutch Ovens

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

One of the things I loved most about Buckskinning (Fur Trade Era historical re-creation) was cooking outside over an open fire. I'd just about die for a good cast iron dutch oven.

On a semi-related note, one of my favorite "flatlander" stories (a flatlander is the buckskinning equivilent of "mundane") concerns the time Elwood Holmberg (a crackerjack cook) was preparing dinner for the camp. A father & son walked up, looked things over, and the kids asked his father, "Is that _real_ food?" "No," Dad said, "They're not really going to eat that."

Once time when I was sitting at my campsite, eating an apple, a kid came up, sorta goggled a bit, and then asked, "Is that a _real_ apple?"

Sheesh.

Liver 'N Kale - Yum!

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

When my ex (Paul - I think you remember him, 'tho this is going back 15 plus years) was a kid he refused to eat liver whenever his mother made it. I took it as a matter of pride that he _loved_ whenever _I_ cooked it...

[tinymich.livejournal.com]

Sounds yummy! I'd love to try the recipe were it not for the Stoopid Bacon Allergy. (Gargh.) Think it would be okay with some chicken broth in with the cider??

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

I think so.

Kale seems to be quite adaptable. Last night I cooked it with kielbasa and then threw the mixture over noodles and topped with parmesan.

[castiron.livejournal.com]

Yum! I'll have to try this when the farm starts sending greens in the veggie boxes again. It'll make a good contrast to the weird pineapple peanut butter kale stew that's my usual way of using the stuff up....

[kiwiria.livejournal.com]

I'm still trying to figure out what kale is. *slinks off to find dictionary*

[kiwiria.livejournal.com]

Ah! Grønkål! Hmm... interesting.