Kale and Sausage with Couscous

I just discovered Kale during the growing season in 2015 and it has become one of my favorites. I love it! It's delicious and I discovered that you can eat it raw, add it to pesto, roast it, stew it etc etc. I came up with this very delicious concoction that comes out so good, you'll make it again and again. I know I have. The beauty of this is that you can adapt it easily to be vegetarian or not. 

How did I come about this recipe? Well I made it up. My friend had given me bags of kale this summer and after pesto and kale chips with roasted veggies, I still had tons of it left. So now what? I had seen on TV that kale holds well to cooking and also noticed that sometimes it's a little bitter. 

So I started off by caramelizing some onions. Thought that will balance out the bitterness and looked into the freezer and saw this Jimmy Dean pork sage sausage and I was like that might work and in it went with some veggies. I was also into Israeli couscous at the time so I thought it would be perfect accompaniment and it was. 

This comes out amazing! And is so versatile. The one time I was out of onions and had too much kale (again!) and some sausage in the freezer. Too lazy to go out shopping, I was watching Chopped and drinking some Seagrams. Dinggg! (That's the light bulb in my head going on)...cooked the kale in the sweet alcoholic drink instead of onion. Hah! Worked! 

Ingredients:

Kale 

Onions (2 medium or 1.5 large)

Garlic (ofcourse!)

Jimmy Dean Sage sausage

Veggies (carrots, peppers, mushrooms or combination of your favs)

Chicken broth flavor base

Israeli couscous 

What I did:

- Add oil and tons of onions and caramelize it for 10-15 mins (until it turns Amber/light brown)

- Add Kale and sauté 

- Cover and cook until kale is darker green in color. Add chicken broth or water to prevent it from sticking. 

- Add veggies, sausage and chicken flavor base and cook until sausage is cooked 

- Add couscous (cooked separately according to package instructions). Toss! And YUM!!!