Kale and delicious Kale chips!

Kale.... amazing Kale. We are hearing so much about it lately! I amsure you have heard it many times already but some benefits of this wonder green food include...

• Cholesterol-lowering benefits (even more so steamed than raw!) 
• Anti-cancer properties found in bladder, breast, colon, ovary, and prostate cancers. Isothiocyanates (ITCs) made from glucosinolates in kale play a primary role in achieving these cacner risk-lowering benefits.
• Support for the body's detoxification system via ITCs made from kale's glucosinolates helping to regulate detox at a genetic level.
• Researchers can now identify over 45 different flavonoids in kale. With kaempferol and quercetin heading the list, kale's flavonoids combine both antioxidant and anti-inflammatory benefits in way that gives kale a leading dietary role with respect to avoidance of chronic inflammation and oxidative stress.

So what do you do with kale? It is basically like a super lettuce! Add it to salads, sandwiches, sides, green smoothies, juices, anything you like! It is wonderful raw, but if you feel like being a little extra creative have a try at some kale chips in the oven.

All you need is coconut oil, some flavours such as cayenne pepper and your delicious kale.

Lightly spray the coconut oil over the kale, sprinkle with your flavouring and put in the over at 180 degrees for 15 minutes. Better still to keep them raw put them in dehydrator for about 30min to an hour depending how crisp you would like them to be :)

Add the kale chips to a salad for a wonderful crunchy texture or each on its own. These are delicious! Today I added mine to a Greek salad...


It was bliss!!! :)