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The Best Kale Salad

By Alli Shircliff • Kale Salad • Cuisine?
4.96 Prep: 20m Cook: 0m
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
Created: Sep 23, 2025 Updated: Sep 23, 2025