Recipe Obsession: Mediterranean Chard

Don't like plain vegetables with your entrees? Try this!

Mediterranean Chard

Ingredients:

Vegetable broth

8 garlic cloves, minced

pinch red pepper flakes

2 tsp capers

1⁄3 c olives, sliced thin

2-3 c chard, chopped

1 tsp lemon zest

Instructions: 

Line skillet with a thin layer of vegetable broth and sauté garlic and red pepper flakes over high heat for a minute or two, until the garlic is golden in color, fragrant, and most of the broth has cooked off.

Add enough broth to line the skillet again, then add capers and olives.

Sauté for a few seconds, then add greens.

Stir to combine and continue to cook, using tongs or a spatula to stir the greens around, incorporating it with other ingredients and to help cook it down.

Once greens are dark in color and softer, about two to three minutes, turn off heat.

Add lemon zest and stir to combine before serving.

Chef’s Note: Feel free to scale back the garlic, particularly if you have bigger cloves. I love the strong taste of garlic in this dish, but if you’re not a garlic lover, 8 cloves might be overpowering.