9 Delicious Kale Salads Even the Kale Naysayers Will Love!

By Lindsay @ The Café Sucre Farine | Updated on February 27, 2025

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Want to eat more greens? These are 9 of our favorite kale salads that are healthy, full of flavor and sure to please!

Are you a fan of kale salad? These easy and delicious recipes will turn anyone into a kale salad lover! My kids (9 and 12 years old) request Tuscan Kale Salads for part of their birthday meal or for any special occasion.

A delicious dressing and a little massage do wonders for this hearty green. Add some great toppings, and you've got a salad that pairs perfectly with any kind of main dish. Or add your favorite protein for a healthy meal. Give them a try, we think you'll love them!

Pepita Pecorino Kale Salad (Hillman's Pub Copycat Recipe)

A bright, vibrantly flavored salad, this Pepita Pecorino Kale Salad pairs deliciously with pizza, burgers, roasted or grilled entreés and it makes a healthy, hearty meal topped with grilled chicken. The easy brown-butter-roasted pepitas are the crunchy crowning glory!

Vertical overhead picture of Tuscan Kale Salad in a white bowl

Tuscan Kale Salad with Lemon Basil Dressing

Think you don't like kale salad? Think again! This delicious Tuscan Kale Salad with crisp, buttery bread crumbs, salty, savory Parmesan and a fabulous lemon basil dressing will have the most adamant kale hater requesting seconds!

Mediterranean Black Lentil Salad

This Mediterranean Black Lentil Salad with a garlicky lemon dressing is the ONE you need to take to every potluck, picnic and/or party that you're invited to! It's loaded with healthy ingredients, can be made ahead and is irresistibly delicious (even to kale and lentil naysayers!)

Overhead picture of summer kale salad on a wooden table with a blue and white napkin

Strawberry Kale Salad with Honey Lemon Dressing

Fresh, healthy and delicious this make-ahead Strawberry Kale Salad is perfect for summer picnics, potlucks and parties. The honey lemon dressing and candied pepitas take it over the top!

Quinoa and Kale Salad with Avocado, Apples and Bacon - we can't get enough of this healthy, super delicious salad. And I love that it's just as good the next day too!

Quinoa and Kale Salad with Avocados, Apples and Bacon

You won't be able to get enough of this healthy, super delicious salad. And it's just as good the next day too!

Vertical picture of Fresh Corn Kale Salad in a white bowl with blue and white bowls in the background

Summery Fresh Corn Kale Salad

If you love summery salads that are fresh, healthy and bursting with flavor, this Fresh Corn Kale Salad has to be on your must-make list!

Vertical picture of Pomegranate Pear Salad in a white bowl with blue and white dishes stacked and dressing in a glass cruet in the background

Pomegranate Pear Kale Salad

This delicious Pomegranate Pear Kale Salad is loaded with fresh, healthy ingredients. The simple, vibrant lemon dressing ties it all together.

Kale and Apple Salad with Honey Ginger Dressing - healthy , fresh and utterly delicious? If you look those words up in the dictionary, you'd see a picture of this salad!

Kale and Apple Salad with Honey Ginger Dressing

This salad is healthy, fresh and utterly delicious. If you look those words up in the dictionary, you'd see a picture of this salad!

Chopped Chicken, Apple and Kale Salad - we can't get enough of this salad. It's healthy, fresh and super delicious!

Chopped Kale, Chicken and Apple Salad

This healthy, fresh and super delicious with chopped kale, chicken, apples, red grapes, and toasted maple pecans.

Thought for the day:

The fear of man lays a snare,
but whoever trusts in the Lord is safe.
Proverbs 29:25

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  1. I wonder if you can help me figure out a problem I'm recently having with any recipe page on your site. When I try to read the page (which I love doing), the scroll bar on the right disappears, the page flips up to the very beginning, and then I'm stuck there. If I try to scroll immediately down to the recipe, sometimes I can at least copy the recipe to paste it into a Word document I can read later, but as often as not, the page snaps back up the beginning and leaves me stranded. I use the most recent version of Firefox on a Macbook Air running Sequoia 15.3.1. (My young grandniece told me to add that information - I have no idea what it means.) If you should have any insights or suggestions, I'll be delighted and grateful to hear them. Thank you!

  2. Hi Chris,
    This email came with a a subject line "new dinner/sandwich roll recipe," but upon opening, the post is kale recipes.
    Is that sandwich recipe coming soon?
    Thanks,
    Laurel