Chard roulade
Running out of ideas on what to do with your mountain of chard? Here’s a quick and easy but unusual recipe.
Ingredients:
- Plenty of chard (up to 500g ish). You may also use spinach.
- 2 eggs
- 250g pack of cream cheese
- Salt and pepper
Optional extras:
Add garlic and different herbs to the mix for more distinctive flavours. Thyme, Oregano, Nutmeg and Cloves are all good options. Or add chives to the cream cheese.
Method:
- Chop or tear your chard (or spinach) and steam or boil it till just soft.
- Squeeze out excess water and work it a bit to make a sort of chard mush.
- Leave to cool down, then add salt and pepper and 2 beaten eggs.
- Spread the mixture on to a GREASED rectangular baking tray
- Bake at 180′ until it JUST starts to brown on top.
- Leave to cool a bit and remove from the tray onto a flat surface
- Spread on the cream cheese and roll up like a Swiss roll
- Serve sliced
Bon appetite!