Whole-Grain Spaghetti With Kale and Tomatoes

Doubled the garlic. Very good.

Great recipe. Added shrimp, basil and a lot more garlic. Used parmesan cheese.

Followed recipe as stated but reserved 1/2c. of the salted pasta water to make sure pasta wasn't too dry, and added crushed red pepper flakes to my dish. This was pure heaven. Will be a favorite to enjoy over and over and a great change from the usual pasta and sauce.

Yes to more garlic! I also used baby kale to avoid the thick stems found in the regular variety, which was perfect. This is a quick, healthy, delicious meal and I look forward to making it again. I think it would also be good served with chicken mixed in.

I didn't tweek this and enjoyed it very much. But I certainly will make it again and use some of the suggestions. A nice healthy, light meal.

I prefer a saucy pasta, so I added a jar of Rao's Arrabiatta sauce at the end. I also doubled the garlic. It was perfect. Also, be sure to use the largest skillet you own, even a wok, if you have one. If your skillet is average size, just add the kale in batches. It wilts down pretty quickly, making room for more. I will definitely be making this again.

Delicious! I followed some other comments and made my own tweaks--used about 4-5 cloves garlic, added a little chicken broth with the kale, and a little of half and half at the end also added some shrimp. It was tasty, not dry at all and had some protein for a full meal.

I loved this recipe. Like several other readers, I tweaked it, but that's typical for me. It's also good if you add some chopped mushroom to the saute. Then I tossed with parm cheese ( because I didn't have Pecorino) and about 2 TB of cream at the end and it was amazing- I got lot's of compliments on it. Will be one of my go- to dishes from now on, yum,

I thought this recipe was awful. I was hesitant to try it but after reading all the positive comments I thought I would try it. I was very disappointed that I did. The combination of the "lettuce like" texture of the kale did not mesh very well with the soft pasta. It was a weird combination to eat. Also there was very little flavor. Overall an extremely tasteless meal.

Perhaps I wasn't vigilant enough about what I considered "thick stems," but the kale did not come anywhere close to being tender after 2-3 minutes--more like 15 minutes, by which time the onions and garlic were pretty overcooked. Also, I don't know what kind of skillets people have, but "huge pot" is more appropriate here. Otherwise, there's no way to fit all that kale in before it cooks down.

Very good, first Kale recipe, and we were quite surprised. Will be doing this one again. And, may add some other things to it, like chickpeas, or use spinach, it is very versatile.

The first kale recipe I've liked. We used 4 roma tomatoes & 4 garlic cloves. Very filling.

Just made this tonight and it was wicked good, but could use some tweaking, imo. We used more garlic then it called for (5 cloves instead of 2) and it could've used even more. Should've saved more cooking water than just 1/4 a cup; it ended up being a little dry if you had a bite that was tomato-free. Next time we'll use just one pint of tomatoes, but we'll use more kale. This is the first time we've cooked kale, and it looked insane when we first threw it into the pan, but when it was done and tossed with the spaghetti, it just wasn't enough! And maybe this time we'll actually remember the almonds, LOL. Didn't remember about them until we were cleaning up after dinner. D'oh! But overall, this was a really good dish that we will definitely be making again; nice and light but incredibly filling.

These comments are great. Cut the tomatoes and used chard as kale was not available today.

Turned out great although I swapped out/added a few things. I didn't have fresh tomatoes so used a can of diced with about 1/3 of the juice, a small can of plain tomato sauce, 2 sliced chicken breasts, a small yellow squash, and half of a large sweet onion. I browned the chicken and set it aside, then sauteed the onion, garlic, and added the kale, tomatoes, squash and let it cook down. I added the tomato sauce as it was looking a little dry. I then added the chicken and cooked the chicken the rest of the way. The rest of the recipe I followed exactly. Will do again!

This was my first time ever trying kale and I was really nervous about the recipe but it turned out amazing, even without the peppers because I didn't have any on hand. I'll definitely be making this again!

This is a very good recipe! LOVED IT!

We had this for dinner tonight and I do believe it's our new favorite recipe!! Delicious. Thanks so much.

This is too much food for serves 4! I'd make it 6 or even 8 servings. Very delicious.

light and delicious!

I can't believe it - my healthy-food-hating boyfriend loved this! I cut back on the kale because it looked like 8 cups was going to overtake the pasta - it cooks down quickly, so stick to the recipe. 8 cups would've been perfect.

This was really tasty. I subbed chard for kale and used more like 8 oz of spaghetti. Even with the increased pasta the amount of tomatoes called for is way too much. I would only use 1 pint next time. I also used a little more cheese and was more generous in seasoning with salt and pepper. Will definitely make this again.

This was yummy! We loved it. I did chop the tomatoes in the food processor for my hubby because he doesn't care for large pieces of tomatoes. I was thoroughly impressed with this recipe.