One pot Chard

One-pot Chard

Prep time: 10 mins
Cooking Time: 20 mins

Serves: 2

Season: Spring, Autumn

Diet:

Ingredients

• 220g mushrooms
• 5 chards including stems and leaves
• 250g rice
• 1 tin of chopped tomatoes
• 1 tin of lentils or 240g pre-cooked lentils
• 1 onion
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 500ml water

Method

Chop the onion and mushrooms.

Separate the chard stalks from their leaves, cut the stalks into small sections about 1cm long, and coarsely chop the leaves with a knife.

In a saucepan, sauté the shallot in a spoonful of olive oil.

Add the sliced mushrooms and chopped chard stems and stir for a few seconds.

Add the 250g of rice, the tin of chopped tomatoes and the 500ml of water.

Bring to the boil, then cook for 10 minutes with a lid on.

After 10 minutes, lift the lid, add the chard leaves and the cooked lentils, and leave to cook for a further 5 minutes or so, to allow the chard leaves to become soft, not mushy.