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Baker Katherine Kale Salad Ingredients Vegan Chickpeas tempeh1
Baker Katherine Kale Salad Ingredients Vegan Chickpeas tempeh1
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Protein-Packed Tempeh Kale Salad With Lemon Dressing

All hail the magnificent kale. Worship the leafy lady with this delicious, plant-powered and protein-packed kale salad. The tempeh and chickpeas make this salad stick, and the crunchy apples and lemony dressing add a burst of freshness to take it to the next level.

Feel mega-healthy with this beautiful salad, which comes together in mere minutes. If you’re feeling #fancy, add whatever nuts and dried fruit you may have around your apartment. My favorite is sunflower seeds and golden raisins, but walnuts, almonds, dried cranberries or tart cherries… anything will do.

This is 1 of 7 meals from the round-up How to Make a Week’s Worth of Vegan Meals for Under $30 From Trader Joe’s.

Tempeh Kale Salad With Lemon Dressing

Difficulty:BeginnerPrep time: 10 minutesTotal time: 10 minutesServings:1 servings

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Place kale in a bowl.

  2. Photo by Katherine Baker

    Chop apples and slice tempeh. If you’d like, you can likely sautee it in a pan with seasonings of your choice. Add to kale. Add chickpeas.

     

  3. Photo by Katherine Baker

    Juice lemon and whisk in a small bowl with olive oil and sugar or maple syrup. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Katherine has been involved with Spoon since the early days of the NYU chapter. She continued to write for Spoon while earning her master's degree in human nutrition at Columbia University and authored the Spoon Guide to Healthier 2016. Katherine likes to avoid wearing real pants, hanging out with her rescue pup Millie, drinking iced coffee in all 4 seasons, and baking vegan treats (yes, Baker is her last name). Katherine is now a student at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health and learns about how climate change impacts human health and nutrition (#school5ever). Hit her up on Insta (@katherinebaker4) and kbaked.com for more #relatablecontent.