Simple, practical, and versatile, it’s whatever you want it to be
I’ve been leaning into repetition in my cooking. To exist in the social media-fueled food space is to often feel compelled by the constant chase of novelty: There is always some new restaurant to try, or a viral dish to replicate. This inability to sit with familiarity can be tiring. And so, as an antidote, I’ve been making kale sauce more often.Six Seasons
author Joshua McFadden seems to have introduced many people to the concept of kale sauce, myself included. His version, which was first published in his 2017 cookbook, begins by sizzling garlic in olive oil. Kale is then blanched in boiling water and put dripping wet into a blender, followed by the garlic and oil. McFadden combines it all into a vivid puree, which he adds to cooked pasta with a bit of Parm and extra pasta water.
Kale sauce, above all things, is practical: It is an easy way to use up lots of green things. Kale, spinach, arugula, Swiss chard, broccoli, herbs, or any combination thereof will do, and it doesn’t matter if they’re wilted. As such, I often find myself making kale sauce toward the tail end of the week, when there’s a bunch of kale hasn’t been eaten yet or a bag of parsley that I bought too ambitiously; those fridge stragglers don’t get more exciting with time.
While its foundation remains constant, kale sauce allows for all sorts of modifications. When a recipe is that simple, people feel compelled to add things, as though they don’t trust that goodness can come about that easily . According to the comments on McFadden’s recipe,readers have: blended in silken tofu or mashed avocado ; replaced kale with broccoli rabe, and then added blanched almonds and pecorino Romano; added anchovies, or a mixture of ginger, tamari, lemon juice, and sesame oil.
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