Ingredients 2 onions – finely chopped 2 leeks and a few spring onions (optional, you can just use more chard!) 4 cloves garlic – crushed 2cm ginger – peeled and grated 400-500g chard (you can use kale too but remove the tough stems) – stems chopped into 1cm pieces, leaves shredded 1 tsp salt 2…
This colourful chard recipe provides the perfect side dish to any salmon main course. Serves 4 Ready in 10 minutes Ingredients: Good knob of butter 1 garlic clove, crushed 800g ruby or mixed chard leaves, washed just before use Melt the butter in a frying pan over a medium heat Add the garlic and fry…
Ingredients: 100g unsalted butter Olive oil for frying 400g girolle mushrooms (or mixed wild mushrooms) 200g rainbow chard, stalks trimmed slightly, leaves and stalks separated 2 lemons 25 litres mix equal parts either fresh chicken stock and water, or veg stock 1 large onion, finely chopped 3 garlic cloves, finely sliced 300g risotto rice (we…
Pickling the chard first (see below) gives it a very deep, robust flavour. Goes well with venison or a meaty fish like turbot or halibut cooked on the bone Prep: 15 mins Cook: 40 mins plus cooling Serves 4 Ingredients: 400g Swiss chard 3 star anise 200g golden caster sugar 300g white wine vinegar 1 tbsp coriander seeds 1 tbsp…
“Here is my recipe for using up excess greens! Too many leaves in your veg box? Left some tasty greens for too long in your fridge? Fear not – you can still create a delicious and nutritious meal from them”, said Tom Ingredient: Greens (spinach, kale, chard, any green leaves really!). You can use anything…
Ingredients (for 4): Roughly 7 or 8 chard leaves. 1 leek 1 potato 1 onion 1 garlic clove Pepper Vegetable stoc (optional) 4 spoons of heavy cream when serving (optional) A bit of oil. I used coconut. Method: Wash and cut all vegetables in medium/small pieces. Heat the oil, cook the onion for a few…
A very simple method of preparing Swiss chard and/or beetroot leaves (they are very similar, you can mix them) is: Fry a chopped onion gently in butter with a little salt in a saucepan or deep frying pan. Wash the leaves carefully then chop them up. Add to the onion and cook gently until soft,…
“Need more ideas for all those lovely green leaves in the hungry gap? This quick and simple recipe is made with chard but pretty much any leaves can be used.“, Tom. Ingredients (serves 2 – scale as needed) 1 egg, 100g plain flour (I like to use half and half wholemeal/white), A generous half…
Running out of ideas on what to do with your mountain of chard? Here’s a quick and easy but unusual recipe.
“I cook this minestrone recipe (Jamie Oliver) nearly every weekend, as it uses loads of the veg in the Oak tree veg box, and is really tasty. I miss out the dried beans bit (the first paragraph of the recipe) and just cut up some of the runner beans and chuck them in with the…