Fresh and colorful vegan kale salad with quinoa and a delicious tahini dressing. Hearty and filling enough to be a main course!
This vegan kale salad is massively delicious and so healthy too.
It has the best of everything, loads of nutrients and fiber and all that good stuff in a super tasty package. It’s really no hardship to eat salad when it’s this good.
If you’re not a huge kale person, you might be wondering how eating raw kale in a salad can possibly be delicious. But it is!
There is a small trick to it though: massaging the kale. You massage the kale for a minute with some lemon juice, salt and olive oil.
Massaging the kale breaks down those tough fibers making the kale almost like it’s been cooked, except it’s still raw and still retains all that raw goodness, but in an entirely edible and super delicious way.
How To Make Vegan Kale Salad
You will find full instructions and measurements in the recipe card at the bottom of the post. This is a summary of the process to go along with the process photos.
Make The Quinoa:
- Put your quinoa on to cook. Once cooked, fluff with a fork.
Massage The Kale:
- While the quinoa is cooking, add your kale (stems removed) to a big bowl.
- Add olive oil, lemon juice and salt and massage with your hands for around a minute. You will feel the kale fibers soften and break down, creating a nice soft edible kale.
Assemble The Salad:
- Add cherry tomatoes, sundried tomatoes, olives and walnuts to the bowl with the kale leaves.
- Add the cooked quinoa and toss everything together.
- Prepare the tahini salad dressing by adding all ingredients to a bowl and whisking together.
- Serve in a salad bowl or salad platter topped with sliced avocado and fresh cilantro and drizzled with tahini dressing.
Storing Tips
Ideally if you think there might be leftovers then don’t mix avocado into the salad. Just add the avocado directly to the portions you serve. That way leftover salad will stay good in the fridge for 2-3 days.
Then simply add fresh avocado to the leftover salad when you serve it.
More Delicious Vegan Salad Recipes
- Vegan Couscous Salad
- Vegan Sweet Potato Salad
- Vegan Pasta Salad
- Vegan Quinoa Salad
- Vegan Potato Salad
- Vegan Caesar Salad
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Vegan Kale Salad
Ingredients
For the Quinoa:
- 1 cup Quinoa (170g) Dry Weight
- 2 cups Water (480ml)
For the Kale:
For the Salad:
- 10 Cherry Tomatoes sliced in half
- 10 Sundried Tomatoes sliced
- 10 Pitted Olives sliced in half
- 15 Walnuts chopped
For the Dressing:
- 1 Recipe Tahini Salad Dressing
For Serving:
- 1-2 Medium Avocados Sliced
- Cilantro
Instructions
- Place the quinoa and water into a pot and bring to the boil. Reduce heat to low, cover and simmer until tender and most of the liquid has been absorbed (~15 mins). Once cooked, fluff with a fork.
- While the quinoa is cooking, add your kale (stems removed) to a big bowl. Add in the olive oil, lemon juice and salt and massage with your hands for around a minute. You will feel the kale fibers soften and break down, creating a nice soft edible kale.
- Prepare the other salad ingredients, except the avocado and then toss together in a bowl with the kale and toss together.
- When the quinoa is cooked add it to the bowl and toss together.
- Prepare the tahini salad dressing by adding all ingredients to a bowl and whisking together.
- Serve in a salad bowl or salad platter topped with sliced avocado and fresh cilantro and topped with tahini dressing.
Notes
- This recipe serves 4 if it’s a main course and 8 as an appetizer/side.
- Nutritional information is for salad only (including cilantro and sliced avocado) and does not include the tahini salad dressing. Nutritional information for the dressing is available on that separate linked recipe.
This salad was excellent! I omitted the olives and sun dried tomatoes due to preference and it was still delicious. Thank you for sharing this recipe.
Thanks so much India!
Do you use black or green olives in this salad?
We used green. 🙂
Excellent recipe! Very yummy and my kids approve it!!Thank you!
This is really good!!!
I could literally eat this every day for dinner! My new favorite salad. Thanks for the recipe!