Why make them?

Kale is a healthy green. If your children are anything like mine, it’s sometimes a fight to get them to consume healthy greens. Kale cubes are a great solution for sneaking greens into other dishes like soups, sauces, or smoothies.

How to make them?

Simple! You seriously just blend kale leaves and water together. Then freeze. Here. I’ll make it look like a recipe so you take me seriously:

Ingredients and Materials:

1 bunch kale (or other hearty leafy green)
2-3 cups water
ice cube trays (or other freezable containers)

Directions:

Remove kale leaves from stems, and place a few handfuls of kale leaves into blender.
Add 1-2 cups of water to the blender.
Blend kale and water until kale bits are pulverized.
Take the blender jar off the blender base, and use a fork to scoop out the solid bits of kale and pack them into the cells of the ice cube tray. (At this point, leave the green juice in the blender jar.)
Add a few more handfuls of kale to the blender, and pulverize again. (Add more water if needed to get the blender going.)
Repeat steps 4 and 5 until all of your kale is blended up and the solid bits of kale are packed into ice cube trays.
pour the green juice over the ice cube trays.
After the kale cubes have frozen, store the cubes in a zip-lock bag in the freezer, and use within six months.

How to use them?

I’ve been adding 4-6 kale cubes to our morning smoothies, and I make sure to also add dark berries so the kids don’t notice the green color of the kale. So far, so good.
I added 6-8 cubes to a marinara sauce the other day, and no one was the wiser. Mwahaha!
I’m planning to tuck these cubes into soups as we move into the cooler months.