Kale Salad with Creamy Lemon Tahini Dressing

As mentioned previously, I now live really close to one of Toronto’s great Fresh Restaurants and find myself eating there quite often. I’ve come to really enjoy their lemon tahini dressing and decided that it seemed simple enough to attempt to recreate at home.

I first worked out this easy tahini dressing a couple months ago, and poured it over a mixture of quinoa, greens, avocado, shredded cabbage and carrots. Then one day, I had a bunch of kale and hand and decided to make the dressing again to serve over it. The result is a creamy, tangy and super healthy salad that I just had to share.

Notes

• If you’re new to kale or find the taste a bit overwhelming, feel free to use a mixture of kale and regular greens.
• The benefit of using kale for this salad (beyond all its nutritional benefits) is that because the leaves are thicker than regular greens, any leftovers will hold-up nicely for a couple days in the fridge.
• This salad contains chickpeas and avocados – two things that I toss into most of my ad-hoc salads. Bell peppers (capsicum) and/or shredded carrots would also be delicious.
• If you make the dressing in a big bowl, and then mix the salad ingredients right in, it’s a one-pot meal.
• This dressing is perfect with falafel – either straight-up, or in a pita.

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