Galettes with Chard and Gruyère

Name: Galettes with Chard and Gruyère
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 50 g butter, melted; 1 egg; 300 ml milk; sunflower oil, for oiling the pan; good pinch of salt; salt and black pepper; 100 g buckwheat flour; 400 g chard, leaves stripped from their stalks; 4 eggs; 125 g Gruyère or Cheddar, grated

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

Main course
Gluten-free
Vegetarian

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