Description
Instant Pot Kale with Garlic and Lemon - kale from your pressure cooker, quick and easy.
Ingredients
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- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 3 cloves garlic, slivered
- 1 pound kale, cleaned and stems trimmed
- ½ cup water
- ½ teaspoon fine sea salt (or Diamond Crystal Kosher salt)
- Juice squeezed from 1/2 a lemon (about 2 tablespoons)
- ½ teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
Instructions
- Lightly sauté the garlic, then add the kale: Pour the oil into the bottom of the pressure cooker pot, stir in the garlic, and set the pot over medium heat (stovetop PC) or sauté mode (electric PC). Heat the oil until you just smell the garlic - we want it to bubble around the edges, but not brown - about 2 minutes. Stir a big handful of the kale into the garlic and oil, then start packing in the rest of the kale. Don't worry about the max fill line on the cooker - it will wilt quickly - but you need to pack it in enough to close the lid. Sprinkle the kale with the salt, then pour the water over the top of everything.
- Pressure cook the kale for 5 minutes with a Quick Release: Lock the lid on the pressure cooker. Pressure cook at high pressure for 5 minutes in an Instant Pot, other electric pressure cooker, or stovetop pressure cooker. (Use Manual, Custom, or Pressure Cook-Custom mode with your Instant P0t). Quick release the pressure. Remove the lid carefully - the steam is hot enough to scald.
- Season and serve: Squeeze the lemon over the kale, then stir in the fresh ground pepper. Scoop the kale out of the pot with a slotted spoon or tongs, leaving as much liquid behind as possible. Serve.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 5 minutes
- Category: Pressure Cooker
- Cuisine: American
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Nutrition
- Serving Size: ½ cup of kale
- Calories: 60
- Sugar: 1.9 g
- Sodium: 133.2 mg
- Fat: 3.1 g
- Carbohydrates: 7.5 g
- Fiber: 2.8 g
- Protein: 3.3 g
- Cholesterol: 0 mg