Sweet Baby Kale Salad

Kyra Williams for The Upside Blog

by | Updated: March 21st, 2017 | Read time: 1 minute

With its tough-textured leaves and slightly bitter taste, kale can take some getting used to. But there are ways around the challenge, some of which are easier than others. Prep is painless, for example, when you fill a salad bowl with baby kale, a lighter, leafier and less pungent version of the mature green. Still packed with antioxidants, vitamin C and plenty of superfood goodness, baby kale combines beautifully with cranberries, walnuts and ginger dressing in this sweet spring salad.

Sweet Baby Kale Salad

Sweet Baby Kale Salad

Serves 2

Ingredients

5 oz. baby kale
1 large sweet potato
1/2 red onion, sliced
4 oz. dried cranberries
4 oz. walnuts
4-6 Tbsp. ginger dressing or raspberry vinaigrette 

Directions

  1. Cut sweet potato into small chunks (one large sweet potato should create about 10 chunks). Boil sweet potato chunks and remove skin.
  2. Add all ingredients to a bowl and toss in salad dressing.
Kyra Williams

Kyra Williams hasn’t always been fit. She used to be quite the opposite, in fact. During her college years, she lived on pizza and beer and packed on an unhealthy amount of pounds, due to total inactivity. One day, something clicked, and Kyra knew it was time to lose the weight. Since that time, she’s fallen so in love with fitness that she’s made it her life’s work to help others to make the changes they need to become fit, active and healthy.

Kyra is a self-employed, NASM-certified online personal trainer and nutrition expert, Crossfit Level One Trainer, USA Weightlifting and USA Powerlifting Coach, and she’s helped women all over the world through her online training services and training programs. For more info or to connect with Kyra, visit kyrawilliamsfitness.com.