I am eating it right now for the first time - YUM!!!!!
For some reason I could NOT find pine nuts anywhere, although I feel like I have seen them in every grocery store BEFORE I started looking for them. So instead I bought some slivered almonds and roasted them in a dry pan and threw them in at the end. I also served it over quinoa. Delicious!
Aleri, I've been wanting to make this too. So glad to hear your ringing endorsement! We're always steaming them. I found Pine Nuts at one of the health food stores in town... maybe WF. They're pricey though and almonds are plenty tasty. Enjoy!
What is the recipe?
I have yet to be able to find Collard Greens in my Stop & Shop. They have Kale and Mustard Greens. Any recommendations for alternatives?
I think you could probably use kale - but you wouldn't want to cook it as long. In the recipe there are a couple of different steps and you end up cooking the collards for about 6 minutes - I think you'd probably want to do the kale for less - or at least monitor it so it doesn't get too mushy. I love Kale too though - somewhere on this site I posted my favourite Kale recipe ... African Pineapple Peanut Stew! I haven';t cooked with mustard greens yet.
Michelle, I'm at work now so I don't have the book "The Kind Life" with me. This is pretty much what it is though, or what I did (I apologize for any inconsistencies!)
1.) Roast some pine nuts (in my case, almonds) in a dry pan and set aside for later
2.) Wash and remove the stems from a bunch of collards. Let them sit in a collander (you want some water on them when you cook them, so don't dry or spin them.)
3.) Saute 3 minced cloves of garlic in a tablespoon of olive oil until fragrant
4.) Add greens, stir, then cover for 2 minutes
5.) Uncover, stir, and add 2 tablesspoons of balsamic vinegar or shoyu. Recover for 2 minutes
6.) Uncover, stir, add handful of raisins and pine nuts (I didn't put the almonds in until I was done so that they would be supercrunchy) Cover for 2 more minutes.
I served over quinoa and it was awesome! It felt like a really "complete" meal.
2.) Saute
Hey I just had my first big bowl of them also and they are so yummy.
I have made this twice, substituting walnuts for pine nuts. Walnuts are often recommended as a replacement for pine nuts in pesto, so I thought it would work. I love this recipe!
Pine nuts are delicious but expensive. I used almonds which I had on hand, tried this for the first time yesterday and.. YESSS! Awesome! So glad to have the chance to expand my horizons and so happy for all the yumminess in the world opening up to me -- yummy and healthy, how can you beat that?!
Aleri: I love the idea of serving it over quinoa and will def. try that.
I've made this recipe before but with spinach instead of collard greens - you barely have to cook the spinach at all, just let it wilt in the hot pan. So delicious!
I just finished making this for the first time... it was delicious!! Easy to make and quick.... I have a feeling this will be a frequent meal for me. It's true that pine nuts are quite expensive, but this recipe doesn't call for that much. Yum!
Pumpkin seeds instead of the pine nuts and shoyu instead of the balsamic was great too (this is Alicia's superhero recommendation) if you can't get the pine nuts. Just be careful because the pumpkin seeds burn easily when you're toasting them!
This is one of my favorite recipes from the book. I love eating it with millet.
I'm having this for dinner tonight. The recipe is really yummy! I usually don't have pine nuts in the house so last time I used sunflower seeds. Tonight I'm using cashew pieces. My husband just commented on how good it smells. :)
I'm so proud! I made this last night with kale because I couldn't find collard greens in my supermarket and in one word, YUM! I even took a picture. The same instructions apply for kale as for greens...
i made these last week and quite honestly it was one of the best things ive eaten. soooo good. i served mine over brown rice. so filling and soo good