Dinner · 30 min · Amounts not specified
Sweet potato kale salad
Roast sweet potato. Massage kale.
The sheet · 2 bowls · 30 min
easyWhy tonight. Roast sweet potato. Massage kale.
What it needs
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- sweet potato
- kale
- tahini
- lemon
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: almonds.
Method
- Cube the sweet potato small and roast it hot until the corners are dark. Big cubes steam in the middle and never crisp.
- Massage the kale with oil and salt while the potato roasts — it needs that minute of work to stop being tough.
- Tahini thinned with lemon and water, garlic grated into it.
- Almonds toasted dry in a pan and added at the very end so they stay crisp.
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- VinaigretteDispersing fat into acid so it stays dispersed for as long as dinner takes, which is all it has to do.separates immediately · greasy · too sharp · dull
- Building a sourSpirit, citrus and sugar in a fixed geometry, then adjusted for how strong the particular bottle in front of you is.thin and sharp · cloying · spirit disappears · no foam
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- Syrups and citrusHow to Make Fresh Juice for CocktailsEpicuriousJuicing citrus fresh for drinks, and the plain reason bottled juice does not work.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Syrups and citrusOleo Saccharum - 2 Easy MethodsSteve the BartenderPulling the oil out of citrus peel with sugar. It is the best thing you can do with peels.Link checked 2026-09-08
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- sweet potato
- Sugar as well as starch, so it browns and burns faster than a potato does.
- kale
- Tough enough to need help.
- tahini
- Sesame paste that behaves like a fat and an emulsifier at once.
- lemon
- Acid you add at the end, not the start.
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Cooks from the same box
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Tahini yogurt sauce
The sauce that turns roasted vegetables into dinner.
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Tahini cucumber
Salt and drain the cucumber first or the sauce thins to nothing. Pour the tahini under it, not over, so it stays crisp against the fork.
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Lemon kale with parmesan
The expiry-first salad. Massage kale with salt, lemon, and oil until it darkens. Parmesan is fat, not a garnish.
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