California Soul, Holland’s most in trend cookbook, fuses meals traditions of the American South and West. Here, Southern stalwarts fancy pecans and peaches meet a fundamental Californian kale salad. To flip it into a foremost dish, upright throw on some grilled puny, rooster, or racy sausage.
For Chef Holland, peaches repeatedly suppose reduction recollections of her father’s favourite dessert, peach cobbler, whereas pecans are a nod to her mother’s liked pecan pie. And he or she’s no longer on my own in thinking that right here is the last fruit and nut combination. (In the occasion you fancy to must lengthen the shelf lifetime of your nuts, store them in the fridge.)
While most salads must be ready inviting earlier than serving, kale is a uncommon exception. It in actuality gets greater when it’s massaged with the dressing upfront. So feel free to construct this salad as much as 2 hours earlier than serving, and abilities the flavors of California and the South in one good dish.
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Ingredients
½ cup pecans
2 tremendous bunches Tuscan kale, ribs and stems removed, leaves thinly
sliced
8 Tbsp. further-virgin olive oil, divided
3 tremendous ripe peaches, thinly sliced, divided
2 Tbsp. fresh lemon juice
3 Tbsp. Champagne vinegar
2 tsp. hot honey
1 tsp. Diamond Crystal or ½ tsp. Morton kosher salt
½ tsp. freshly ground pepper, plus extra
4 oz. Gouda, coarsely chopped
½ cup torn mint leaves
Flaky sea salt
Preparation
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Step 1
Preheat oven to 350°. Toast ½ cup pecans on a rimmed baking sheet, tossing as soon as, till somewhat of darkened and aromatic, 6–8 minutes. Let chilly; coarsely lop.
Step 2
Toss 2 tremendous bunches Tuscan kale, ribs and stems removed, leaves thinly sliced, with 2 Tbsp. further-virgin olive oil in a tremendous bowl to coat. Rubdown leaves till beginning to soften, about 3 minutes. Let sit down at room temperature on the very least quarter-hour and as much as 2 hours.
Step 3
Toss 1½ tremendous ripe peaches, thinly sliced, with 2 Tbsp. fresh lemon juice in a itsy-bitsy bowl to coat. Build of abode apart.
Step 4
Blend 3 Tbsp. Champagne vinegar, 2 tsp. hot honey, 1 tsp. Diamond Crystal or ½ tsp. Morton kosher salt, ½ tsp. freshly ground pepper, final 1½ tremendous ripe peaches, thinly sliced, and supreme 6 Tbsp. further-virgin olive oil in a blender till soft and emulsified.
Step 5
Pour dressing over kale. Add pecans, 4 oz. Gouda, coarsely chopped, ½ cup torn mint leaves, and reserved peaches; toss to combine. Sprinkle with flaky sea salt and season with extra pepper.
