I got some kale after reading about this but the taste is terrible. How do people spice it up? Put it in spaghetti?
I agree with you. It has a somewhat bitter taste. Try to mix it in with other ingredients. A bit of soy sauce.
We, Wazungu, were not raised on this so it's an acquired taste.
I remember Emmanuel Oliuolo Ngatuny (2:08:00) commenting that our western food on his plane ride to France, was "tasteless" - we appreciate what we are used to.
I got some kale after reading about this but the taste is terrible. How do people spice it up? Put it in spaghetti?
I agree with you. It has a somewhat bitter taste. Try to mix it in with other ingredients. A bit of soy sauce.
We, Wazungu, were not raised on this so it's an acquired taste.
I agree with both of you, but especially the former poster. I find kale to be the most overrated leafy green. I love vegetables, pretty much all vegetables, as well as greens like spinach, arugula, lettuce as well as broccoli, broccolini type things, so I naturally assumed I would like kale as well coz it feels like it’s kind of somewhere in between all those vegetables, but dear lord, it tastes like a wild shaggy unkempt vagabond cousin of the delicate delicious spinach that somehow fell off the wagon and in to bad ways. It’s tough and fibrous and needs to be cooked, so it doesn’t make for an easy salad dish. I can eat it if it is aesthetically served in a restaurant with walnuts and raisins and gourmet olive oil and such as a side dish, but never at home do I feel like “oh I’m so in the mood for making this kale dish today”. Never ever.
It sticks out like a sore thumb of a vegetable that I can’t seem to love. I’ve even liked to love bitter gourd that is literally terribly bitter, not like the pleasing hint of bitter in Belgian endives or cilantro or radish etc, but gagging Denatonium bitter that you just can’t eat raw, but if deep fried and seasoned reduces enough in bitterness to be palatable. But kale? No thanks, it’s not so bitter as it is just wild hay.
I got some kale after reading about this but the taste is terrible. How do people spice it up? Put it in spaghetti?
I eat kale almost exclusively cooked, save for in very flavorful salads. Omit the stems or plan to cook them longer than the rest of the leaf. I also like sautéed kale (plus bell pepper, onion, and mushrooms) mixed in with my eggs but I add either ketchup or hot sauce both of which contribute some sweetness.
I don’t know exactly how either compares to kale nutritionally but my wife and I collectively enjoy escarole and chard more than kale if we looking for hearty greens.
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