WINTER RECIPES - salted caramel candies + kale chips + a sweetness tater salad

These are , I would say , some pretty non bad recipes for winter.
Before yous wrinkle your olfactory organ from hearing the give-and-take "kale chips" , take away heed me out.
I stimulate got fond memories of kale from my childhood. No , I'm non talking most the smell. Nor the taste.
I stimulate got e'er hated kale. Ok , loathe is a rattling stiff give-and-take that I rarely use. Let's merely say I've e'er disliked it.

Kale is a rattling of import division where I come upwardly from (Halland , a say inward the S of Sweden) , peculiarly on "julbordet" (the Christmas table). It's unremarkably cooked amongst cream , butter , tabular array salt in addition to sometimes a petty flake of saccharide (I've never made it in addition to then I can't say sure as shooting these are the exact ingredients but I intend so).
But I digress. I was going to enjoin yous most my memories of kale. My parents used to convey habitation this huge pocketbook of kale every christmas. Like , actually , actually huge. Definitely taller than me. We sat around the tabular array together , my mom , my dad in addition to my large blood brother , removing the thick stems in addition to vehement the kale into smaller pieces. Then my mom cooked it the means I described before. I idea the odour was terrible , but somehow it remains 1 of my strongest in addition to fondest memories.

If yous haven't heard , kale is pretty much a super-food. It's in addition to then nutritious that equally a vegetarian I experience similar I need to detect ways to swallow it in addition to however savor it. Mixing it into hearty salads in addition to making chips is definitely the means to larn for me. I'm going to endeavor making juices too.

I know it's a flake ambiguous , hither I am , talking most nutrition in addition to all in addition to them I'm giving yous a recipe for caramel candies. Well , to me it's all most finding a balance. I definitely don't desire to deprive myself of eating baked goods or candy (it's business office of my job!) , in addition to then I endeavor to swallow fairly (with emphasis on fairly) salubrious nutrient during the weekdays. Don't yous intend these caramel candies would brand a perfect gift though? Find a cute petty box , fill upwardly it amongst candies in addition to give it to somebody yous like.

Kale chips

Printable recipe

1 bunch kale
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp salt

Preheat oven to 150°C (300F). Line a baking sail amongst parchment paper.
Remove the thick stems from the leaves in addition to tear into small-scale pieces. Wash in addition to dry out pieces thoroughly.
Put kale inward a bowl in addition to drizzle amongst olive crude oil in addition to salt. Put kale inward a unmarried layer on baking sheet. Bake until slightly brownish , most 15-20 minutes

Brown rice , sweetness tater in addition to chick pea salad amongst roasted pecans in addition to kale
3-4 servings

Printable recipe

200 ml brownish rice (about 150 g)
ii sweetness potatoes (about 500 g)
Olive crude oil , tabular array salt in addition to dark pepper

50 g pecans

Vinaigrette
3 tbsp dijon mustard (I used dear dijon)
1 1/2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
3 tbsp olive oil
Salt in addition to dark pepper , to taste

400 g chick peas , cooked or tinned in addition to drained
50 g kale (or a few leaves..) , rinsed in addition to chopped inward smaller pieces

Cook rice according to instructions. Set aside.
Heat oven to 200°C (392F). Peel in addition to cutting sweetness potatoes inward smaller pieces. Put them inward a pan together amongst some olive crude oil , tabular array salt in addition to pepper. Toss to brand certain potatoes are covered amongst oil. Roast for most 25 minutes or until pieces are tender in addition to slightly browned.
Toast pecans inward a skillet until fragrant.
Mix mustard , balsamico , olive , tabular array salt in addition to pepper inward a small-scale bowl.
Mix rice , sweetness potatoes , pecans , vinaigrette , chick peas in addition to kale inward a large bowl.

Salted vanilla caramel candies
Recipe adapted from Gourmet Traveller

Note: This recipe makes rather soft but however chewy candies. If yous desire harder candies yous tin trim back the sum of cream to most 225 ml.

Printable recipe

250 g granulated sugar
1 loving cup (250 ml) heavy cream
threescore g golden syrup
25 g butter (I used salted , but unsalted industrial plant too)
1/4 tsp vanilla pulverization or seeds from 1/2 vanilla pod
body of body of water salt

Line a twenty cm (8 inch) foursquare pan amongst baking paper.
Put saccharide , cream , syrup , butter in addition to vanilla seeds inward a large saucepan in addition to stir until saccharide dissolves.
Bring to a boil over medium high oestrus in addition to ready until mixtures reaches 122°C (251F) on a saccharide thermometer (which tin accept upwardly 10-20 minutes). If yous don't stimulate got a thermometer , drib a petty flake of the mixture into a drinking glass of mutual frigidity water. The mixture should last able to degree a theatre ball. Pour mixture inward the prepared pan in addition to permit cool for a few minutes earlier sprinkling body of body of water tabular array salt on top. Let stand upwardly until theatre , most 3-4 hours. Cut caramels amongst a abrupt knife. If your knife sticks to the caramels , spray it amongst non-stick spray or brush some crude oil on it. Wrap candies inward wax paper. Keeps for most 5-7 days inward room temperature , in addition to fifty-fifty longer inward the fridge. If yous shop them inward the refrigerator , think to convey them to room temperature earlier eating.

Variations
Salted chocolate caramel candies
Add ii tbsp cocoa pulverization along amongst the other ingredients at the starting fourth dimension of the recipe.