quinoa-kale salad

Ingredients For quinoa-kale salad

• SALAD
• 1 1-lb bag

  pre-washed, chopped kale
• 2 pinch

  salt, or to taste
• 2 Tbsp

  olive or other vegetable oil as needed for softening kale
• 1 md

  red onion, quartered and very thinly sliced
• 2-3

  granny smith apples, skin-on, quartered and thinly sliced
• 1-2 c

  sweetened dried cranberries (i use the ones with 50% less sugar)
• 1-2 c

  sunflower seeds or chopped pecans, walnuts, almond slivers or nut of choice
• 8-12 oz

  queso fresco or feta cheese, crumbled
• 2-3 c

  cooked, cooled quinoa
• DRESSING
• 1/2 c

  light, neutral oil
• 1/4 c

  honey or maple syrup
• 1/3 c

  apple cider vinegar
• 1 Tbsp

  fig glaze or balsamic vinegar
• 1 Tbsp

  chia or poppy seed (opt)
• 1 tsp

  dijon mustard
• 1 pinch

  salt