How to prepare chard

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 600 g, you will need:

• 1 800 g Leaf beet (swiss chard)
• Total weight: 800 grams

Times:

Preparation	Resting	Start to finish
40 min.	15 min.	55 min.

Step by step recipe

• 1: If possible, choose fresh chard: firm, green leaves and firm stems.
• 2: Start by cutting off the stem.
• 3: Then cut to separate the stem from the leaf.
• 4: It's not essential, but you can remove the midrib from the leaf...
• 5: ...to keep only the green of the leaves.
• 6: Do this for all the chard.
• 7:

  The leaves

  
  Soak the leaves for about 10 minutes in vinegar water to wash them.
• 8: Then drain and spin-dry.
• 9: If you don't need the whole leaves in your recipe, cut them into chiffonade: stack them on top of each other.
• 10: Roll into a cylinder, then slice the cylinder...
• 11: ...to the end.
  Do this for all the leaves.
• 12: The leaves are now ready to be used in your recipe.
• 13:

  Stems

  
  Peel the stems, removing the fibrous surface with a small knife or vegetable peeler.
• 14: Then soak in water for 5 minutes to wash them.
• 15: Drain them, spin-dry or dry them in a tea towel, then chop them.
  That's it for the stems, ready to be used in your recipe.
• 16: Use chard prepared in this way without waiting too long, to take advantage of the freshness of the leaves and stems.

Remarks

To optimize your time, start peeling the stems while your leaves are soaking.
Depending on your chard, you may have very little, or a little more, to peel from the stems.

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