>> Hilah:Hey dudes!
I am Hilah and welcome to Hilah Cooking.
So, I’ve gotten quite a few messages from people sayin “Hey!
What in the kale to I do with kale!”
So today I am going to show you a quick little garlic and sesame kale sautee, and it’s
a great way to make quick use of this very healthy green.
Yayyyy!
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[How to Cook Kale]
>> Hilah: First thing you are gonna need to do is wash your kale because it grows in dirt,
so I’ve don’t that.
So, I am just gonna start by stripping the leaves off of the stems.
You can totally cook the stems too, but some people don’t like it so I am going to show
you how to strip it off quick and easy.
Just get that kale naked, and if you never had kale it’s kind of similar to collard
greens.
It’s a little bit milder in texture and flavor; not quite as bitter as collard greens
can be sometimes, and a little bit more tender, so it’s kind of, it’s not as tender as
spinach.
It’s really good though.
It’s got a lot of vitamins.
It’s got a lot of iron, so just do them like that, and then, you know, these big end
pieces, just sort of tear those up roughly, you know, we’re going for kind of a rustic
thing here, so don’t need to be precise or anything, and you can also, this is a curly
kale as you can see it’s very curly.
There’s another one called dinosaur kale that’s got flat leaves, but whatever, it’s
all called kale.
You could cook it all the same way.
Hey banjo!
You want to help?
You want to eat some kale stems?
Banjo likes vegetables.
Daisy does not .Here you go buddy.
Get it.
There you go.
Chompy chomp.
Chomp chomp chomp the little dude!
He is such a little buffoon.
Okay, so I ‘ve got my big pile of beautiful, fluffy kale here, and we’re just going to
just sautee it real quick so follow me as I turn to the left.
All right, I’ve got my skillet heating up here.
I am just gonna add a little tiny touch of oil, like half a teaspoon maybe.
We’re not trying to overdo this or anything.
Once the oil is warm I am gonna add a little bit of minced garlic and just let that sizzle
for like 30 seconds just until I can start to like really, really smell it, so that’ll
depend on your nose.
Now it’s smelling good, and I’ve got some sesame seeds here.
You can leave these out if you like, but I do think that sesame goes nice with kale,
and I think this dish would go really well with the pork tenderloin earlier this week.
So, I am helping you out here buds, and then we can add our kale, and it’s still wet.
I haven't like tried to dry it really thoroughly or anything.
You start tossing it around, and it’ll wilt down.
It’s not gonna wilt down as much as spinach does, but put some in.
Add a little bit of salt.
Just keep stirring it around and you can add some more as this first little batch wilts,
and the salt again will help it, you know, help draw some of the moisture out and help
it wilt down, and it’ll start to turn really bright green, and just rotate it so that,
you know, all the kale comes in contact with the spinach so you are moving the cooked stuff
to the top and letting the uncooked stuff fall to the bottom.
You could also do this in a wok.
It’d be really easy.
You’d have a lot of room to toss it around.
And then you could say, “Who’s ready for some wokkin kale!?
“ Right, get people really excited about it.
Okay, now that it’s almost done I am gonna add just a few drops of some toasted sesame
oil and again this is optional.
If you wanted to just go with the garlic and olive oil and salt, that’s totally reasonable
and fine.
Get it all tissy-tossed around, and you could see this like shrunk up by about half the
volume, but it’s a lot heartier than spinach, so you know, this would serve two people easily.
Okay!
And just once it’s all evenly wilted it looks pretty good to me.
Turn the heat off and we’re ready to serve.
Wham blam thank you.
. . land for this kale.
All right.
I’ll just put it into my serving dish.
Really pretty.
If you don’t like overcook it, or stew it, it just stays this really beautiful green
color.
Woo hoo!
And I think the sesame seeds add a lot.
I think you could do black sesame seeds and white sesame seeds for a little bit of a Yin-Yang
effect—Garlicky, and sesameey and kaleeey, and healthy.
You could also, dudes, I bet you could totally serve this over some brown rice with a little
bit cheese on top or something and it would be a really great vegetarian meal.
Yum!
Oh boy!
I probably could eat this whole bowl myself.
Okay.
I won’t.
Thank you for watching.
If you have any questions, please leave them below and I’ll get to them as soon as I
can, or if you’d like to share your favorite way to prepare kale, go ahead and leave that
in a comment too!
I hope you have a great weekend and I’ll see y’all next week.
Bye!
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>> Hilah: Banjo is being a major dick today.
He’s being a curious little dick aren’t you Banj?