Sometimes you just need a light, refreshing lunch. This super easy herbed cheese crostini and kale salad is my new favorite lunchtime fix! It's easy and healthy, an irresistible combination for lunch!

August 20, 2019 Updated June 1, 2021 Jump to Recipe
Sometimes you just need a light, refreshing lunch. This super easy herbed cheese crostini and kale salad is my new favorite lunchtime fix! It's easy and healthy, an irresistible combination for lunch!
Have you tried crostini before?
It’s a fancy pants word, but really, crostini is just little slices of toasted bread topped with cheese or veggies. I could eat crostini all day long!
I love crostini topped with tomatoes and basil, but right now I am all about topping crostini with herbed cheese. YUM!!!!
I like to use goat cheese and infuse it with my own fresh herbs. You can keep this meal vegan by subbing vegan cream cheese for the goat cheese. You can also make this meal gluten free by using gluten free bread.
I think a good kale salad and crostini are a match made in heaven! My kale salad here makes for a light, but very filling lunch! With a creamy dressing, beans, pine nuts, avocado, and slivered Parmesan if desired, this kale salad will satisfy your hunger without feeling heavy.
If you’re planning on adding Parmesan slivers to the salad, here is my very favorite cheese plane. Seriously, I love my cheese plane so much! It’s so versatile for making Parmesan slivers to top salads and pasta, and for making the perfect cheese slices for sandwiches.
My cheese plane and my cute little canister of Fleur de Sel, both of which I use in this recipe, are probably two of the things I reach for most in my kitchen! So it’s really no coincidence that both show up in this recipe, and take this lunch to the next level!
Make this hearty but not heavy lunch as we enjoy these last few weeks of summer. It truly is the perfect end of summer lunch!