Swiss Chard with black eyed peas
Swiss Chard with black eyed peas

Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, swiss chard with black eyed peas. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Now, black eyed peas are beans, not "peas", but bean or pea, they are legumes regardless. One of my favorite legumes to be exact! I did keep more of the Southern tradition in here than you think.

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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook swiss chard with black eyed peas using 9 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Swiss Chard with black eyed peas:
  1. Get 3 small bunches of swiss chard. ( almost 5 cups of minced swiss
  2. Take 1 cup black eyed peas
  3. Take 2 tbsp olive oil
  4. Make ready 8 garlic gloves (minced)
  5. Prepare 2 diced onions
  6. Take to taste Salt
  7. Make ready 1 tsp chilli powder (optional)
  8. Make ready 1 bunch green fresh coriander
  9. Take juice of one lemon

Who am I to break with tradition like that, especially when it can be so delicious? Add butter and pulse until mixture resembles coarse meal with a few pea-size pieces of butter remaining. it was delicious! I used king oyster mushrooms and rainbow chard. I have a small oven so made two smaller.

Steps to make Swiss Chard with black eyed peas:
  1. Wash the swiss chard very well, and drain it.
  2. Chop the stalks and the leaves into thin slices.
  3. In a pot boil the swiss chard till it becomes tender.
  4. Remove it from the heat, and drain it.
  5. Boil the black eyed peas in water (soaked overnight).
  6. In a large pot, heat the oil and fry the onion till it becomes translucent.
  7. Add the garlic, chilli powder (if used), and chopped green coriander.
  8. After it is well cooked, keep aside quarter of the quantity to add it later for garnishing.
  9. Add the chard and the beans to the pot and around one cup of water
  10. Simmer gently until the chard has wilted and softened.
  11. Put the garnish on top of the plate and serve it with lemon and pita bread.
  12. Notes: usually we cook the white swiss chard - * the traditional way is to separate stalks from the leaves and cut each separately then boil the stalks till tender and add back to the stew. - * You may first boil the black eyed peas until it is half cooked, then add the chard and boil it all together in the same pot. - * don't turn off the stove until the water is fully evaporated.
  13. Made by: Samah Baroudi

Chard or Swiss chard (Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris, Cicla-Group and Flavescens-Group) (/tʃɑːrd/) is a green leafy vegetable. In the cultivars of the Flavescens-Group, the leaf stalks are large and often prepared separately from the leaf blade; the Cicla-Group is the leafy spinach beet. Easiest way to make Swiss chard! Cook in olive oil with garlic and crushed red pepper. Looking for an easy way to get more greens in your diet?

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