Recipe Rendition: Juice Generation's Kale Kolada
- Jul 30, 2016
- 2 min read
Working late always leaves me feeling...gross. It’s a lot of sitting around and heavy carb consumption (in this case Thai...which actually was delicious...but I digress). So when I woke up this morning I really felt like I needed some greens. I’m truly not the type to keep an overabundance of food stocked in the fridge (we generally buy as we go because I hate throwing away spoiled food), but I did happen to have all of these on hand. PURE LUCK. I like to keep kale (I know, so #basic) and bananas in the house during the week for easy meals (bananas for breakfast, kale in salads or sautéd for dinner—it also keeps for a while), but everything else (dates, coconut, etc.) I had from recipes earlier this month (like this one...and this one). Dates and coconuts will stay for a while, so waste and worry not.
Ok, enough blabbering. If you’ve ever had Juice Generation's Kale Kolada, this smoothie tastes exactly like that—which I’m obsessed with. Not my original intention, but a very happy accident. And no, it does not taste like kale.
you’ll need…
2 de-pitted medjool dates
2 tablespoons of chia seeds (optional)
½ cup of almond milk (I prefer unsweetened, but you can really use any milk you have on hand)
1 frozen banana (peel and freeze a bunch at once and then use as needed)
3 leaves of kale, minus the center rib, roughly torn into pieces
to make…
If you can, soak chia seeds and dates overnight in ½ cup of almond milk, in the fridge. If not, just throw into a blender, NutriBullet or Magic Bullet a few minutes before you plan on blending/drinking. I also took the banana out of the freezer 10 minutes before I planned on using it. Not necessary, though, if you have a powerful blender and not a 6 year old Magic Bullet :)
Add ingredients, except coconut, and blend until smooth. I don’t think the order truly matters, but I did add the banana first and kale second, which in my case, helped to blend well. Top with coconut flakes and sip away.
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