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Swiss Chard with Beans
Total time40 min
Prep25 min
Cook15 min
Yield4 servings
DifficultyMedium
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Vegetarian mains

ChefLoubna Fawaz

Swiss Chard with Beans

Swiss chard with beans is a healthy and delicious vegetarian dish from the rich Lebanese kitchen, which includes hundreds of olive oil-based, very nourishing recipes.

Swiss chard with beans .. one of the dishes from our Lebanese cuisine full of beneficial vegetarian recipes .. some are more famous than others! Anyone who doesn't know Swiss chard with beans will get to know it now

Ingredients

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  • 1 kilo Swiss chard
  • 1/2 cup red beans
  • 2 large onions
  • 1 small head of garlic
  • Olive oil

Method

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  1. Wash the Swiss chard leaves, drain them, then chop them...
  2. In a pot over the heat, boil a large amount of water, then add the leaves to the boiling water and cook until tender
  3. Earlier... soak the beans overnight, boil them the next day, and drain them
  4. When the Swiss chard is cooked, drain it and squeeze it well to remove the water
  5. In a skillet, saute the sliced onions with the chopped garlic as well.. fry them in oil until they turn golden
  6. Add the Swiss chard and the cooked beans to the skillet and stir for about 5 minutes
    Timers: 5 min
  7. Serve Swiss chard with beans alongside vegetables such as radish and onion .. and eat it with Arabic bread and a squeeze of lemon
  8. We recommend that you try Syrian vegetarian Swiss chard kibbeh
  9. Also from traditional recipes, here is Swiss chard with cowpeas

Recipe tags

Vegetarian mainsInternationalVegetarianVeganDairy freeGluten freeNut freeEgg freeMediumBalanced time

Notes and serving ideas

  • Bean Mtabbal
  • Syrian vegetarian Swiss chard kibbeh
  • Swiss chard with cowpeas

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