Don't just eat it, let's try these 3 delicious kale recipes

Often mistaken for spinach, kale is a vegetable that is very easy to process into various dishes. If all this time you have only processed it for vegetables, you need to taste the following recipe recommendations for kale.

Not only delicious, kale has health benefits

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Kale is one of the green vegetables that is very common in Southeast Asia, especially in Indonesia. Water spinach has hot-shaped leaves 2.5 to 8 cm wide. This green vegetable contains various vitamins and minerals that the body needs, including:

• Folate
• Vitamin A.
• Vitamin B3
• Vitamin B5
• Vitamin C
• Potassium
• Calcium
• Iron
• Phosphor

Not much is known, kale also has a number of health benefits, such as:

• Against liver damage.
• As anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer because it contains strong antioxidants.
• Prevent anemia.
• Maintain healthy skin, hair and eyes.

A delicious and practical kale recipe

After knowing the various benefits of kale, don't hesitate to process it in your daily menu. Here are various kale recipes that you can try at home:

1. Kale spicy pecan seasoning

Materials:

• 3 tbsp cooking oil
• 200 gr kale, siangi
• 3 pieces of lime leaves
• Salt
• Pepper powder
• Sugar

Ground spices

• 5 candlenuts, fried or roasted
• 2 large red chilies
• 3 pieces of red bird's eye chilies
• 5 spring onions
• 3 cloves of garlic

How to make:

1. Heat cooking oil in a skillet.
2. Saute ground spices and lime leaves until fragrant.
3. Enter the kale, mix well.
4. Enter salt, pepper, and sugar to taste according to taste.
5. Cook until the marinade is absorbed.
6. Serve warm.

2. Kale tauco seasoning

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Materials:

• 2 tbsp oil for sauteing
• 3 pieces of lime leaves
• 3 bay leaves
• 2 cm galangal, crushed
• 2 cm ginger, crushed
• 3 tablespoons of tauco
• 200 gr kale, siangi
• Salt
• Pepper powder
• Sugar
• 12 quail eggs, hard boiled, peeled

Ground spices:

• 6 shallots
• 3 cloves of garlic
• 3 cm kencur

How to make:

1. Prepare a skillet and heat the oil on it.
2. Saute the mashed spices together with lime leaves, bay leaves, galangal, and ginger. Stir well and cook until fragrant.
3. Enter the tauco, mix well.
4. Enter the kale, stir well so that the spices are absorbed perfectly.
5. Add salt, pepper powder, and sugar to taste.
6. Cook until the kale is slightly wilted and add the quail eggs, mix well.
7. Serve warm.

3. Recipe for kale crispy

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Materials:

• 2 bunch kale, siangi
• 200 ml of cooking oil

Lining material:

• 100 grams of medium protein flour
• 25 gr rice flour
• 15 grams of ready-to-use seasoning flour
• 1 egg yolk
• 300 ml cold water
• 1 teaspoon salt

Sauce ingredients:

• 2 teaspoons of roasted shrimp, puree
• 2 red curly chilies, roughly chopped
• 3 pieces of cayenne pepper, roughly chopped
• 2 garlic cloves, roughly chopped
• 1 tablespoon tomato sauce
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
• 2 tsp brown sugar
• 2 tsp sago flour, dissolved in 2 tbsp water
• 1 tsp vinegar
• 400 ml of water
• 1 tbsp oil for sauteing

How to make

1. To make the sauce, prepare a skillet that has been greased. Saute shrimp, red chilies, bird's eye chilies and garlic until fragrant.
2. Add water and let it boil.
3. After boiling, add tomato sauce, salt, sugar, and brown sugar. Cook again until it boils.
4. Enter the sago starch solution, stir until bubbling.
5. Turn off the heat and add the vinegar then mix well.
6. To make a coating solution, mix all the ingredients together in a bowl.
7. Then, dip the kale in the coating material.
8. Fry kale in heated oil until cooked.
9. Serve kale crispy with sauce.

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