Chard - help need recipes!!

hotcookie101

Thank you both lookign forward to it now

Fluffysheep38

I have very successfully grown a lot of swiss chard :T but now I could do with some good recipes.

I had it tonight by frying garlic in butter and adding the swiss chard, then finishing off with some soy sauce. I wasn't over keen (until I put some cheese on top lol), but hubby didn't like it at all.

So I need some recipes which uses swiss chard but makes it really interesting!

Thanks for any recipes.

Pink.

Hi Fluffysheep,

This thread should give you some ideas:

Chard - help need recipes!!

Once you've had more replies I'll add your thread to it to keep the suggestions together.

Pink

CCP

I'm very fond of Swiss chard and use a lot of it over the summer - so much so that I'm trying to grow my own this year too.

I particularly love it in stirfries - it goes particularly well with seafood, I find - but it's also nice in tomato or cheese sauce, served with pasta. You can also put it in curries or anywhere else you would use spinach - the only difference is that I find it's best to cook the stems briefly before adding the leaves as the stems take a bit longer to cook.

I hope you find a way of cooking that you like the taste of, after all your effort in growing it.

Fluffysheep38

Thanks Pink. I did do a search but couldn't find that thread! Will have a good look through.

Thanks for that recipe, will give it a go. I was very fortunate that my swiss chard grew really good, it was the first time too. Also I did spinach with a free pack of seeds which grew well. I fried that in a bit of olive oil with onions and peppers which was nice.

Thanks again both of you.
Sue

oldtractor

I like it shreaded finely and boiled up with a little garlic and lots of herbs I've grown,such as parsley and coriander. serve with boiled new potaoes,preferably HG and dry cured bacon. yummmmmmmmmmmmmm.

samanthaneww2d

I was given some swiss chard yesterday and have never cooked with it before It was pulled from someone's garden yesterday and I am not even sure how long it will keep . Anyway I am not sure if it tastes like spinach or not does any one have any ideas on what to do with it any advice would be much appreciated ( its the one with the red stems not white) Thankyou so much or reading

oldtractor

shred finely and sautee in a little butter for about 10 mins.or steam in a steamer for 15 mins or so. I like to add a little garlic and mixed herbs as this masks the earthy flavour of chard. Good as a vegatable with meat or fish or served with a cheese sauce. or mixed into an omlette. It does have a spinach taste. You can cook the leaf and the stem separately if you wish as serve as "2" vegetables.

samanthaneww2d

thankyou so very much

stiltwalker

Cut the stem into inch pieces and saute with some butter and garlic for about 10 minutes. Add the shredded leaf part and cover, cook for another minute. Add a splash of white wine or vermouth and about 3 tbsp of double cream and continue to cook until the cream starts to bubble.