Winter Chard

Posted Sun, 10/18/2009 - 13:19 by kandace
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A delicious, healthy side dish.

Preparation Time: 
15 minutes
Servings: 
Serves 2 to 4
Ingredients: 

1 bunch chard (I like to use rainbow chard)
1 to 2 cloves garlic
1/4 cup water or vegetable stock
2 teaspoon mustard powder
1 teaspoon red wine vinegar
2 tablespoon olive oil, separated
Salt and pepper to taste

Preparation: 

1. Chop up your chard by slicing stem into 1 inch pieces and roughly chopping leaves into large pieces
3. Saute garlic cloves in 1 tablespoons olive oil on medium high for 2 minutes
4. Add chard stems and cook for 3 minutes
5. Add water and mustard powder and stir
6. Add chard leaves and cook another 5 minutes, stirring occasionally
7. Remove from heat and mix with red wine vinegar, salt, and pepper
8. Transfer to bowl and drizzle with olive oil

Source: 

I got the idea for this dish from the 2008 Christmas Sunset magazine.