Swiss Chard, Orache & Spinach Gratin
50 min · serves 4
Crops from your garden in this recipe: 🌈 Swiss chard🍃 Orache🍃 Perpetual spinach
Ingredients
- 400 g Swiss chard, stalks and leaves separated (grown in the garden)
- 100 g Orache leaves (grown in the garden)
- 200 g Perpetual spinach (grown in the garden)
- 30 g Butter
- 25 g Plain flour
- 300 ml Milk
- 100 g Cheddar or gruyere, grated
- pinch Grated nutmeg
Green items are crops you can grow yourself.
Method
- Heat the oven to 190C (170C fan). Chop the chard stalks and simmer for 5 minutes, then add the leaves, orache and spinach for 2 minutes until wilted. Drain, squeeze dry and roughly chop.
- Make a white sauce by melting the butter, stirring in the flour, then gradually adding the milk and simmering for 5 minutes.
- Add the nutmeg, half the cheese and seasoning.
- Mix the greens into the sauce, spoon into a baking dish and top with the rest of the cheese.
- Bake for 25 minutes until golden and bubbling.