Crunchy Kale Salad With Plums and Dates Recipe (2024)

Beet greens equally good and more tender than kale. No massaging necessary.

This is one of the most easy to make and delicious, juicy summer salads! Bit hit with everyone. Plums are in, you've got to make this. Splurge and buy those jammy Medjool dates. I'm keeping this recipe forever!!!

Loved this, and although it wasn’t quite as specified, it’s a flexible recipe and was really good. I had kale to use up but no plums, so I made it with apples, chopped dates, sunflower seed, and toasted walnuts, because they go so well with kale and apples. It’s summer now, but as I made it, it’s a nice and healthy winter salad to make with inexpensive ingredients that keep well in the fridge.

This recipe does not even bother to indicate: Fresh or dried dates? I know precious few places that even carry fresh, and even then only a month or so a year...A little more guidance, please.

Used baby Kale - made variations with dried apricots when out of dates. Great salad and flexible for substitutions.

I didn’t have plums or walnut oil, so I substituted deseeded fresh cherries, unsalted sunflower seeds, and hazelnut oil - with a torn lobster. Delicious.

I thought it was a little too lemony, so I would recommend adding the lemon carefully, tasting as you go. Otherwise, I liked it. I am always looking for nice kale recipes this time of year since it is so easy to grow in the garden.

This salad was THE BEST THING EVER. That is all.

The dates REALLY make this salad, but I ate about half of it and realized it was missing some kind of salty cheese. I grated some pecorino into the bowl and that worked but it would probably have been even better with Parmesan or feta since they’re a little less funky aka more complementary to the mellow plum/date flavors… or maybe with blue cheese since that’s contrastingly funky. Anyway, add a nice cheese if you eat dairy, that made it really great.

Peaches! Roasted pecans. So fun to mix it up!

Amazing! Wholefoods had plouts from Frog Hollow Farms, used half the dates. Keeper!

yummy and easy

This was good - to make it more filling, I tossed the salad with 2tbsp natural peanut butter, which was excellent

Good enough but not amazing. Dates are very good with the kale.

Added yuzu ponzu to the kale with the lemon and a dollop of ricotta on top at the end. Best lunch this week for sure!

I followed the directions exactly but used a little less walnut oil . I also used pepitas—pumpkin seeds—and then added Halloumi cheese croutons to make it more if a main dish salad .Loved it ! Look forward to sharing with friends !

I think this salad needs a creamy element like goat cheese, or make it with walnuts and use blue cheese. This is basically a rif on Andrew Weil’s kale salad, which has Parmesan and breadcrumbs and is delicious.

You can also add pine nuts and currants. Even orange wedges. Any dried fruit would be great.

We will make this all summer long. SOOOOOOO good.

Made this for a BBQ - it was a hit. My kale avoiding husband loved this, we used in season stone fruit (Nectatines and pluots). I also added a splash of honey to my first mix, really not necessary. Will make again and again. Thx!

Wow, this is so good and simple and it actually takes the amount of time listed!!!

Rave reviews from all of the guests at a recent BBQ. I used fresh plums from my backyard, skipped the salt because the sunflower seeds were salty enough. Used olive oil and it was perfect.

added feta to cut the tart of the plumbs and acid from the lemons. massaged the kale for a few mins - really lovely salad with bold zingy flavors!

This salad tasted very bad. There was no flavor, and I would never serve this to Company. Most of NYT salads are 4 . This is at best a 2 or 3/5

What a great salad. Served it to rave reviews at a dinner party last night. I think it's the lemon zest that really bumps it up. Like many of you, I subbed in a few things (mangoes for plums, pepitas for sunflower seeds, and added finely chopped red pepper for colour) but I kept the basic outline. It was so good that we're making it tonight too! I never have fresh dates; the finely chopped dried dates were superb.

This salad was the hit of xmas dinner. Gave the Kale a deep tissue massage and added pomegranite seeds, golden kiwis, and a ricotta salata sprinkle. So good!