North Italia Tuscan Kale Salad - Copycat Recipe

parmesan cheese

🥗Healthier: nutritional yeast

💰Cheaper: grated pecorino

Nutritional yeast provides a cheesy flavor with fewer calories.

walnuts

🥗Healthier: pumpkin seeds

💰Cheaper: sunflower seeds

Pumpkin seeds offer healthy fats and protein.

Take a big bowl of chopped kale and remove the stems.

You can buy pre-chopped kale or chop it yourself.

Make homemade toasted breadcrumbs.

Cook 4 oz of uncured pancetta in the same skillet used for the breadcrumbs.

Chop an apple into thin slices.

Wash grapes and slice them in half.

Add the grapes to the bowl with kale.

Chop peino cheese into little cubes and add to the salad.

Add about a half a cup of chopped pistachios to the salad.

To make the Parmesan vinaigrette, start with the juice of two lemons.

Add two cloves of minced garlic to the lemon juice.

Add about a tablespoon or two of Dijon mustard.

Whisk in half a cup of olive oil until combined.

Whisk in about 1/4 cup of grated Parmesan cheese.

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