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Sauteed Kale Leaves Recipe

Course Main Course
Cuisine English
Prep Time 7 minutes
Cook Time 17 minutes
Total Time 24 minutes
Servings 4

Ingredients

  • 1.5 tablespoon cooking oil
  • 1-2 cloves garlic sliced
  • 1 onion chopped
  • 1 Fresh Red pepper or dried red pepper sliced and crushed
  • 450 g kale chopped or shredded (1lb )
  • 0.25 teaspoon salt
  • 120 ml water or vegetable stock 1/2 cup

Instructions

  1. Wash your kale leaves well.
  2. Remove the stalk.
  3. Chop the leaves finely or shred them.
  4. Slice 1-2 garlic cloves depending on how strong you like them.
  5. Red peppers sliced then crushed.
  6. Chop up your onion.
  7. Heat up your cooking oil in a saucepan on the hob to a medium heat.
  8. Pop in your red peppers, onions and garlic and cook until they are just softening.
  9. Now add your kale and your hot stock or water to the pan cover and raise the heat to bring back to the boil.
  10. Lower the heat to simmer and cook for a few more minutes (5-6mins)
  11. Remove your lid and allow the majority of the liquid to evaporate.
  12. Remove from heat and serve hot.

Recipe Notes

Notes: some people don't like to cook both onions and garlic together so you can choose either or if you prefer.