Name: Swiss Chard with Onions (Hosset silik)
Cuisine: Palestinian
Ingredients: 3 tbs olive oil; 1 large onion; 1 kg leaves from Swiss chard, washed, dried and coarsely chopped; Salt and pepper to taste; 2 garlic cloves, crushed

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Classic Palestinian Cuisine

By Christiane Dabdoub Nasser

Published 2000

About

The best way to cook Swiss chard is to separate the stem from the leaves, which cook very quickly. You can save the stems for soup or to prepare a salad: cook the stems in salted water and when they are cooled add lemon, oil, salt and pepper and whole basil leaves. The leaves are a real delicacy and are best prepared with onions.

Ingredients

1 kg leaves from Swiss chard, washed, dried and coarsely chopped
2 garlic cloves, crushed
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Method

Chop the onion finely and fry in the oil in a medium-sized pan until it becomes translucent. Add the crushed garlic and stir for a minute or two. Then add the coarsely chopped leaves. Stir and cook over low heat for a few minutes until the leaves wilt. Add salt and pepper to taste and serve.