Healthy Fall Salad with Kale, Sweet Potatoes and Creamy Maple Curry Dressing

Healthy salad with kale, sweet potato and other vegetables in white bowl.

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Healthy Fall Salad with Kale, Sweet Potatoes and Creamy Maple Curry Dressing

This Healthy Fall Salad with Kale and Sweet Potatoes is the perfect clean eating meal anytime you've been eating too much heavy holiday food or fall and winter fare. It's easy to make and feels great in your stomach! Try it with our Creamy Maple Curry Salad Dressing for the perfect light fall meal.

Prep Time20

Cook Time15

Total Time35

Course: Salad

Cuisine: Canadian

Servings: dinner servings

Calories: 383kcal

Author: Myra

Ingredients

2-3 sweet potatoes I used an enormous one
1/2 tsp garlic powder
pepper
kosher salt
2 tbsp olive oil
1 large head kale
1 very small red onion
1 bell pepper red, orange or yellow
2 stalks celery
1 cup chopped walnuts
1/2 cup pumpkin seeds or more, to taste
Creamy Maple Curry Dressing*

Instructions

Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Peel and chop sweet potatoes into small chunks, put them on a cookie sheet, and drizzle with olive oil. Sprinkle with garlic powder, pepper and kosher salt. Bake for 10 minutes, take them out and toss, and then bake for 5 more minutes. They should be tender Set aside.
While sweet potatoes are baking, strip kale off tough inside stems (if they're crunchy you can chop them and add them to the salad - mine were tough). Chop kale into very small pieces. Wash and spin dry.
If your kale is curly kale or seems tough, put it in a large bowl, add a drizzle of olive oil and massage it for a minute or two to break down the toughness. Note 1
Chop a few tablespoons of red onion, put it in a small bowl and fill with cold water. Give it a little stir. Let it sit for about 5 minutes, which takes a lot of the bite out of the onion, which is great for eating raw. Drain it and pat it dry with a paper towel.
While onion is soaking, chop celery and bell pepper into small pieces.
Toss salad together, along with pumpkin seeds and chopped walnuts.
Serve with our Creamy Maple Curry Dressing* and enjoy! :)

Notes

Note 1: If you're using regular kale you can probably skip this step (I do), but curly kale is pretty tough and really benefits from a quick massage with a drizzle of olive oil. Yes, it annoys me to have to do this, but it does help.

Get our Creamy Maple Curry Dressing Recipe here.

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