How To Prep, Chop + Store Kale | Plant-Based Basics

[@KrocksInTheKitchen]

Check out the blog post for more tips & tricks + links to products featured in this video: bit.ly/KrocksKale

[@bdadams2661]

I originally disliked kale, but a year eating Spring Mix with baby kale changed my tastebuds. I always put the stems in my smoothies. Nutrition and fiber combined! I add chopped leaves to soups, tomatoes sauces, etc. Wonderful flavor and nutrition. I just wash and dry and store whole in my old Tupperware celery keeper with a dry paper towel on top. Lovely video. Best wishes for continued success. I try to watch every video you have made.

[@rrhodes7594]

I love your chopper! I know you have showed it before, but I loved the way it chopped the kale. Also, the method you used to get the leaves off the stem…I like the method of starting in the middle of the stem. Very helpful!

[@nuclearchick1487]

Who knew I needed to see a video on how to wash and chop kale?!? Jessica, you're right, you kaled it! That pun alone got you the thumbs up! Lol.

[@KrocksInTheKitchen]

Right??? 😂 I originally thought it might not be a great video but there really is a lot of thought that goes into it 😁

[@trisha4755]

I have that same chopper and I would have never thought to use it for kale! That’s awesome! Thanks for the tip! 👍

[@liaatherton365]

So useful! I love your trick of starting in the middle. I didn’t know kale kept so long. You packed a lot of really good information into this video!

[@stephaniezorn3969]

I love the kale stems cooked! Great texture along with the leaves

[@lisanow6856]

I like to add my kale stems, chopped up, to soups! They freeze nicely. Nice video Thanks guys! 💚

[@vickimontgomery3365]

Love the idea of using the vegy chopper....time saver

[@VenaJensen]

We love you Jessica and Brian! Thanks for coming back!

[@eandatoo]

I also hate separating those stems from the bagged kale. I've blended them up in my green smoothies before and it wasn't bad actually.

[@sweingold5686]

I did enjoy this video. And kitchen prep can be meditative. Good basic info on getting kale ready to use. I have some in my frig right now.

[@leslieb6676]

This kale is my favorite, too. Once I prep it, I then add a thinned down hummus with a squeeze of lemon. I keep it in a large glass Tupperware container in the fridge. I flip it throughout the day. I add chopped red bell peppers, diced carrots and diced red onions. So easy and tasty. Thanks for this prep video. The Krocks rock!!! ♥️

[@rayradiance666]

Lol I love the crunch of the stems and flavor, but to each his own 🙂

[@potridge]

I need those sound effects when I'M cooking in my kitchen!

[@123Annie]

Thanks!

[@jameskarf]

Thank you for featuring this “new to me” kale. I got some and I love it! Very easy to prep and delicious! I appreciate all you and Brian do for the WFPB community ❤️

[@davidthescottishvegan]

Another fantastic video Jessica & Brian. Kale is my favourite green too. Love 🥰 the video and love 💕 Jessica and her enthusiasm and love 💞 Brian.

[@cornishpasty99]

Love you guys, great video, and you have my birthday on your arm.

[@barbhayes5613]

Genius move to use the smash-chopper to chop the kale! I’m picking up some kale tomorrow so I can try it. Cheers!

[@ardishafdahl8296]

Omg…so with you on that! I always set them aside if I’m eating a dish, lol!

[@bonniefuller6644]

Jessica you are so cute! I love your enthusiasm! I have not been a fan of kale at all but today I bought some of this amazing kind you talk about and love and I watched this video to see what to do with it! Now I'm going to give it a try!!! That hash brown breakfast casserole Brian just came up with looks amazing! Thank you to both of you for all the hard work you do!!! I love your videos!!! Keep up the amazing work!

[@KrocksInTheKitchen]

Yes!! Haha that is one of his recipes I snuck kale into 😉 I’m going to convert all of you!!

[@JR-rv9zd]

Great tips, thank you! I'm inspired to try adding kale to my diet. Loved the sound effects! 😄

[@sheri_LA_native]

I got that chopper after seeing you use it. I love it!!!

[@Carrival]

Just ordered your chopper!! I hate cutting up veges...takes forever!! Thank you for showing this!!!

[@BluestSkypsl]

Great one ! The chopper tip was great .

[@sobellabg804]

Love me some kale! Salads and Caldo Verde (Portuguese kale soup). And the stems! Pre dice them and use them in soups, sautés, etc. sooo good for you!

[@peacelove4829]

Jessica your Awesome, thank you for the tips on kale...

[@maureenk1635]

This was inspirational!!! Thanks SO much. This made kale prep so much easier.

[@botheredwithknots-Sandra]

Brilliant way to chop! 👍Excellent idea.

[@Kari936]

I have to buy the chopped curly kale in the bag. The leaf bunch is kinda limp at my store. It’s a huge bag and takes 45 minutes to pick through. I don’t wash. I then use my S blade in my food processor and pulse 10 times. Sooo nice and chopped. Kale is my favorite. My dog likes the stems.

[@kevinmonceaux2101]

I love the convenience of the pre-chopped greens. I usually eat them in soups, stews, etc., stems and all. Lately I've been getting a "green trio" collard, mustard, and turnip blend. Lately I have been working on getting away from "store bought" stuff like canned beans, boxed vegetable broth, etc., and making my own. I'm also starting to get into canning and dehydrating. I want to start shopping more at a local weekly farmer's market and less at grocery stores. With that goal I need to give up the convenience of pre-chopped greens and start prepping them for use myself. Not only will it save money, but it will give me a larger selection of greens to choose from. Thank you for this video. It couldn't have come at a better time. I was just recently thinking of the need to make the switch to buying whole greens.

[@melodylamour6123]

It grows so easy. Now I need to harvest some and wondering what to do with it all. Lacinato, curly scottish, premier.

[@chellymccrillis4626]

great tips!

[@ruthiezophia2946]

Great video. I don't personally like kale, but that actually looked good.

[@foleyjp1]

thanks for the veggie chopper trick... I have one but never thought about using it for anything other than onions, green, red, yellow peppers. I would love to see more tips like this1

[@ginduf]

geat job jessica!! i always add the stems (chopped) as the first thing to saute with the onion for soups and other things until they're tender. i've also water sauteed them until they were tenderish and adding garlic and other seasonings for a side dish. blending them with fruit for smoothies... my compost's worms and microbes also enjoy the stem ends, too.

[@sandiedrew4086]

I loved this video.😊💗

[@karen2590]

*mind blown* I didn't know you could chop kale in the chopper thingy! I have one of those, thanks to watching you salad prep all those colorful veggies. I guess I know what Ill be trying this weekend....lol.

[@yelnats61]

This is a great video! Good point about all the short storms in pre-cleaned and chopped kale. I’ll never buy that again. Pulling off is a great technique. I always massage my kale. Chop the stems and use for soup or chili.

[@smallfootprint2961]

I've been buying organic chopped frozen kale to include in my cooked meals, but this is a great idea, and can be eaten raw. Nice to have options. Running the rolled up kale through the chopper is pretty cool. Probably not in the budget right now, but I have a knife, and don't mind chopping. Thanks for the ideas.

[@mamakins5123]

I don’t why I didn’t think to use the stems in a smoothie! Save the leaves for salads. I try to always use broccoli stems in some way. Excellent video.

[@pda2836]

Thank you, Jessica!!

[@angelawade1445]

I loved this video. I must have this chopper.

[@hypnosisforhappiness]

Thanks for the instructional video, you should have mentioned and added a link to your garlicky kale recipe!

[@KrocksInTheKitchen]

It was at the end of the video. But trust me when I say that this video is quite important for future recipes. 😀

[@hypnosisforhappiness]

@@KrocksInTheKitchen Thanks, I don't know how I miss it! Looking forward to more recipes, I need to up my kale game. I love all you do. Enjoy your working vacation!

[@SueBroome]

Thanks for your videos. I enjoy them. I put kale 🥬 or lettuce 🥬 or spinach in bowl & use my special scissors ✂️ to cut it up. Works perfect every time & it’s easy & doesn’t take any time. 😃

[@OceanFrontVilla3]

I have lots in my garden, its eaay to grow and harvest it late in the seaaon. I wash, leave ro dry, cut into strips, place on parchment lined sheets, place in the freezer for a few hours. Then bag into ziplock bags, one sheet at a time.

[@carolynlapota5495]

Thank you so much for this. I like kale but don’t use it much because of the bother. I love it raw,but usually buy the bags and steam it. I will definitely do this but don’t have the chopper or the spinner but will figure out a way. I like to massage with lemon juice. Yum. Happy you are back 😀

[@carolynshull4841]

Good video. I know folks whose dogs loooove to eat kale stems.

[@sherriclearlake1611]

With all the veggie's you eat I'm surprised I haven't seen a "make your own stock from veggie scraps" recipe. All my stems, peels, ends, etc. go in a bag in the freezer and then into a pot of water at some point. It makes the best stock! It's always different. We make the stock, strain through cheese cloth and then taste to see what it wants to become.

[@patihopkins5190]

🎉 Amazing Thanx for the chopping tip!!

[@blacsouljah]

Love the humor.

[@thecapone45]

I love the sticks! Gives it more crunch. I dislike buying the pre-bagged because it’s just more expensive and it ends up being so much and it goes to waste. 😔

[@CreativeOne-ll8et]

Thank you for doing this video and where do I buy that kind of Kale?

[@librarynan4610]

I have started freezing kale to use in soups and smoothies.

[@professorsisarie131]

That was literally the most valuable video of yours I have watched. Thank you. Gotta say, tho, that pizza cutter thing is a finger waiting to be lost.

[@roverdover4449]

Nice video. To live this lifestyle, got to make friends with Kale.

[@sidilicious11]

I’m so glad I watched this.

[@hollyadkins4729]

I love you guys!

[@chefevilee9377]

Good job with the kale! Years ago there was a vegan woman on KZbin and she made the most delicious kale salad. You can’t find the recipe anymore because she didn’t have that many views. All these other people like Martha Stewart now trump it out of coming up so. But the bulk of the salad is that you take the Dino kale and massage a little bit of oil into the pieces. then you take an avocado and stir it in with some lemon juice. I know you would think it would be lime juice but it’s not. One time I made it and used lime. It was not good😂 Then use salt and pepper, put as many green onion tops as you would like in the salad. I haven’t made it in years and I think that that’s correct. At least that is the correct base of the salad and it is really good.

[@GAMMY1937]

I love this video!

[@cpshirling]

Brian, I now know that you have "True Love" for Jessica, for putting up with that salad spinner for all these years. 🤣

[@57msdeb]

When you cook kale, the stems are tender and okay to eat. If you eat it raw, you can slide a knife along the stem and the whole side of the leaf comes right off. I’ll try your method next time and see if it’s easier. I usually cook it though. I like it with olive oil and garlic and maybe some navy beans. Yes!

[@lisaschmitt8946]

Thanks for all the info ! Did you move? New kitchen?

[@Lisareads72]

I think this was filmed in the Air BNB that they got for a week, to film videos. Gorgeous kitchen, right?

[@Francine76]

Thanks!!! Appreciate this.

[@courtneyb9995]

When you scrape it off the stem, has it been refrigerated a few days? Mine is fresh and I don’t think it would make that sound. 😅

[@RickysCubanLife]

Love the thumbnail! 🌸

[@lulamamie8524]

My corgis 🐾🐾 LOVE the kale stems!😋😋 Super video! Thank You for sharing! Unfortunately my local grocery store does not have dinosaur kale. I will have to check other grocery stores in my area.

[@carmenwheatley7316]

True. My stores just have one type of lose kale. With the bagged you might get a slightly different variety.

[@robinsutton4952]

I had to stop buying salads at Trader Joe’s. Had to go through and take the stems and stumps out. Thanks for the tips and tricks you share.

[@vanamarkarian]

I chops the kale stems and throw them in stews, or stir fries or smoothies try it their really good…

[@citigirl3238]

This is a great video! fyi - if you have a second bowl handy, it is better to remove the kale in handfuls by lifting it out of water, which allows the dirt and bugs to drop to bottom of bowl with water i it… then rinse it in second bowl and pull out into first bowl. ready for spinning.

[@KrocksInTheKitchen]

Great tip! I will keep that in mind for next time. 😀

[@citigirl3238]

@@KrocksInTheKitchen I just received my prep bowl / chopper from your Amazon page - hope you get commission💕

[@michelleh5157]

B E S T EVER!!!!!!!!!!! 👌👍😄 ... Do you have a kale Caesar salad dressing recipe?

[@Vanessa-fs7oz]

Do you ever freeze kale? I assume if it has to be frozen, like if you have waaay too much kale, that it should maybe be blanched first, but I don't know what works best.

[@kittykat717]

Would like to know if kale can be frozen and if it must be blanched or not Thank you

[@elizabethmcbride222]

Micro Kale is also super good!!

[@ruthdennisKnits]

I use the stems for making veggie broth

[@MrNiche95]

What's your expert opinion on oxalates ????

[@joselopez5878]

Thank you!

[@veganlovebirds2348]

Way off topic but girl I love your THICK hair! Omg ❤ it would look so cute in a French braid.

[@m7s834]

What is "Handy Dandy Counter #4"?

[@KrocksInTheKitchen]

It's a counter for how many times she says the words "Handy dandy". 🤣

[@dwarftyparker]

whereeeeeee did you get your Hello Kitty salad spinnerrrrrr

[@klimtkahlo]

Jessica I bought the same chopper but of course some how managed to cut myself! Not surprised! I tend to be very accident prone in the kitchen! 🤦🏻‍♀️ I think I saw you touch the blades from the inside. Hope they were not sharp on that side but thank you for the heart attack you gave me, girlfriend! 😅

[@robz.3225]

Debbie Downer music! Cool!

[@kristybeck3494]

Jessica, did you always like Kale?? I just don’t like it 😵 I keep trying but yuck. Please tell me I may learn to love it, lol. And how do you fix it to help like it? Also you look great!!

[@professorpaley9594]

I adore Dino kale!!! I use stems and other veggie scraps to make veggie broth!

[@dawnschultz6154]

Not a fan of Kale, but I loved your vid,

[@carolynlapota5495]

I forgot to say that I have seen a couple of people of KZbin say their dogs love the kale sticks.

[@LeeAnnahsCreations]

2:02 That screams to me "JAW PAIN" !!!

[@tondamccarthy6537]

Save your kale stems in a freezer bag with other veggies scraps and make your own homemade broth

[@slinger777]

I think that’s a good idea, but I just eat them at least the ones from the garden.

[@mtnlayde01]

👍👍👍

[@ruthdennisKnits]

I gave you a thumbs up for the beginning joke that was soooooo 🌽 corny

[@chefevilee9377]

OK so I’m going to comment and make you jealous! Just kidding. But my son used to be in a band, well two actually. Both got signed. Well unless you’re big you don’t make any money any longer. And they never got that big. So he decided to become a photographer instead. Well he is a really good photographer. Well since he used to be a rockstar and everybody knows him, like tons of people. The people at the radio station have hired him because he’s an excellent photographer! He will be taking all of the radio stations pictures with the bands that come through. The very first band he is going to shoot is Bon Jovi!

[@guykenniker9498]

Why not chop then rinse and spin

[@KrocksInTheKitchen]

I prefer to wash before I chop in case there are any bugs and such in there... that way I'm not chopping them up with the kale!

[@guykenniker9498]

@@KrocksInTheKitchen that makes sense

[@sandwichsoundwaves]

Careful chopping in the plastic bowl. Microplastic shavings can appear!

[@oldarchived]

can't stop looking at the spices....

[@Smilinginerie]

Looks like a good workout as well. I'm tired after watching you in this video. LoL

[@melodylamour6123]

Lol about dumping the water. Like dude! You could have taken it outside to water your own kale, lol. Meh, you do you 😊

[@bonniemaresh3562]

🤗👍

[@maureenk1635]

Yes, bagged kale is just annoying.

[@MrNiche95]

None of it is ready to eat lol

[@junezaglaniczny1611]

Please just get to the point. No need to jibber jabber so much, lol.