Hello Readers!Chard!
Succulent Swiss chard originated in Europe and is one of the healthiest vegetables you can eat. Botanically, it is related to the beet-family of vegetables which includes sugar beets and garden beets. It features distinctly large dark-green leaves with prominent petiole well-developed edible stalk. Chard, like spinach, is the store-house of phytonutrients that have health promotion and disease prevention properties. It's very low in calories and fat so is recommended in cholesterol control and weight reduction. It is an excellent source of vitamin-C, vitamin-K, vitamin-A, B-carotene, B-complex vitamins, copper, calcium, sodium, potassium, iron, manganese, and phosphorous. In other words, chard is "oh so good" for your body, specifically for your bones, blood, heart, colon, and prostate (if your a man).
Right now, in most of our gardens, we are awash in a sea of green. So much so, that you might not know exactly what to do with all of those delicious green leaves. Don't fret. We've got you covered. Just scroll down to find some interesting and delicious things to do with your chard
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1) Saute with olive oil, garlic and add a dash of lemon juice as a great side.
2) Juice it with apples, carrots, a half a lemon for a healthy thirst quencher.
3) Make cabbage rolls substituting chard for cabbage.
4) Steam it then mix it into cream of broccoli soup.
5) Treat it like spinach.
6) Use it in a fancy pasta dish.
7) Cream it and make chard dip.
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9)Make a green smoothie. Combine bananas, apples, chard, pineapple or orange juice.
10)Make a chimichurri blend from it.
11) Use it as lettuce.
12) Prepare the stalks like asparagus.
13)Use it as a pizza topping.
14) Cook it with salmon using this recipe: http://goo.gl/b4F5P
15)Make a tart using this recipe: http://goo.gl/HVH7G
Cheers,
-Agroecology Education Farm Staff
