One of the biggest things we have struggled with when trying to stay true to our diet is snacking. Well we have found a great option that is created with the powerhouse vegetable kale. This vegetable right here is one of the best you could ever eat, and has shown significant health benefits including cancer protection and lowered cholesterol. One cup of kale includes 33 calories and 9% of the daily value of calcium, 206% of vitamin A, 134% of vitamin C and 684% of vitamin K!! It is also a good source of minerals copper, potassium, iron, manganese and phosphorus. So yeah, you pretty much want to keep some of this bad boy in your kitchen 🙂
Ingredients
Kale
extra virgin olive oil
sea salt
pepper
parchment paper
Directions
1. preheat your oven to 375 degrees
2. cover a baking sheet with parchment paper
3. break up kale and place in a single layer on the parchment paper (the kale with almost shrink in half when cooked so no need to be stingy when placing on the pan, just make sure the kale is not on top of each other)
4. drizzle the top of the kale with olive oil
5. sprinkle salt & pepper on top, you can also add cumin or lemon pepper etc if you’d like. Just keep in mind once again the kale does shrink so don’t go crazy with the salt & pepper, or else it will be too salty and unless you just like salt as a meal. In that case salt away 😉
6. bake for about 10 minutes, keep an eye on it though. Different stoves heat higher or lower than the temp you choose. If you keep it in too long you will have a smoke fest when you pull it out (and yes I learned that the hard way).
7. pull out when done and after cooling off it is ready to eat 🙂
I made 4 batches the other day, and no lie my husband ate every bit of them as soon as he got home and has yet to stop bragging to everyone about how god they were.
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