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>> 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 *** today. He’s being a curious little *** aren’t
you Banj?