kale
kale — noun
1. a leafy green or purple vegetable with tightly curled or wrinkled edges, belongi
a leafy green or purple vegetable with tightly curled or wrinkled edges, belonging to the cabbage family and often eaten raw in salads or cooked as a side dish
Chitra added a handful of chopped kale to her morning smoothie for extra vitamins.
The garden at Yuki's house produced enough kale to share with all the neighbours.
uncountable: enough kale to share
Liam baked kale chips in the oven until they turned crispy and lightly salted.
Elena prefers young kale leaves for salads because they are tender and less bitter.
Zahra's favourite way to cook kale is to steam it with garlic and lemon.
- cabbage
the broader vegetable family; kale is a cabbage variety that does not form a dense head
- collard greens
a similar leafy green with flat (not curly) leaves, common in Southern US cooking
- spinach
a different leafy green with milder flavour and softer texture, used in similar dishes
文法句型
bunch of kale
some kale
[variety] kale
用法筆記
Kale is almost always used as an uncountable noun ('a bunch of kale', 'some kale'). The plural 'kales' appears only when discussing different cultivated varieties.