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The Cure for Salad Fatigue

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Channel: qkatie · 2016 · Howto & Style

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Feeling salad fatigue? When you need a salad that will make you excited about salads again, this is your ticket!! Kale Salad with Beets, Jicama, Chicken, Quinoa and Homemade Pesto.

Summer is a great season for salads...but it's always around this time (mid-summer) that I get salad fatigue. Enter: my friend Margaret! 

Margaret came up with this fantastic combination -- it's got all the textures, flavors and energy boost that I want from my salad. It's absolutely delicious and I'm excited to share it with all of you!

Check out the video, and below are the details to make it in your kitchen:

Here's how you made this bomb summer salad:
-1 bunch kale, washed and dried 
-3 large beets 
-2 chicken breasts
-1 cup quinoa
-Jicama
-2/3 cup walnuts (toasted, optional)
-Lemon juice from 1/2 lemon
-Chicken broth (for poaching chicken breasts) 

For the salad dressing:
-1 garlic clove
-1/2 c. Apple Cider Vinegar
-Olive oil (add as needed)
-1 Tbsp. agave nectar

Homemade Pesto:
-2-3 cups washed basil
-plenty olive oil ~ 1 cup
-4 garlic cloves
-1/2 cup walnuts
-salt and pepper

Poaching chicken:
Bring broth to a boil and place two chicken breasts in broth for roughly 20 minutes. Let cool for 5 minutes. Shred chicken with two forks

Steaming beets: 
Wash and remove ends from beets (keep skin on!). Cut in quarters to shorten cook time. Place in steaming basket and steam for roughly 15-20 minutes, or until you can easily pierce beets with fork. Let cool.
Rub off skins (with paper towel to avoid mess).

Cook quinoa (we just used my rice cooker! it does the job beautifully).

Massage the kale: 
Drizzle with olive oil (and lemon juice, optional) and pinch of salt.
Massage with your hands for ~20 seconds.

Assemble the bowl:
Place handful of kale in bowl, then quinoa. Drizzle first two with a little dressing if desired, add handful shredded chicken, add chopped jicama and beets , add walnuts and finish off with a little dollop of pesto. YUM! 


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