Purple kale generally do not need to blanch. The purple kale is a kind of high nutritional value of natural vegetables, which contains most of the nutrients are water-soluble, if the blanching, it is easy to lead to the loss of nutrients in the purple kale, reduce the value of food, it is recommended that you can soak in salted water and wash can be.

Do you need to blanch the kale

Before you eat the kale, you can peel it into slices, soak it in salt water and wash it, so that you can effectively remove the pesticide residue from its surface, and then cut it into slices after you finish soaking it.

If you feel that the taste of raw kale is more crunchy and hard, you want to blanch and then eat is also possible, wait until the water boils, put the kale into the water for about 10 to 15 seconds to quickly fish out, blanching in this way can effectively reduce the loss of nutrients.

In the process of blanching, if the color of the water becomes mauve or light green, this is the precipitation of anthocyanins after heat, which is a normal phenomenon, you can rest assured to eat.