Galettes with Chard and Gruyère

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Autumn and Winter Cooking with a Veg Box (Riverford Companions)

By Guy Watson

Published 2015

  • About

Melted cheese, an egg and fresh greens housed in a nutty-flavoured gluten-free buckwheat pancake. These look impressive, but they’re simple to cook. This is also good with spinach, Comté, ham, or sweet pancake fillings. The pancakes can be made in advance and frozen between sheets of greaseproof paper.

Ingredients

For the galettes

  • 100 g buckwheat flour
  • good pinch of salt
  • 1

Method

To make the galette batter, sift the flour and salt into a mixing bowl. Make a well in the centre and add the egg, then whisk, adding the milk a little at a time, until you have a smooth batter. Leave to rest for at least 1 hour.

Meanwhile, blanch and squeeze the chard leaves then roughly chop.

Stir the melted butter into the batter. Heat a lig