Baked Frittata With Yogurt, Chard and Green Garlic

- Total Time
- 50 minutes
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Ingredients
- 1generous bunch Swiss chard (1 to 1¼ pounds with stems), either green, rainbow or red
- Salt to taste
- 2tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 1bulb green garlic, papery shells removed, chopped
- 1teaspoon chopped fresh thyme
- 1teaspoon chopped fresh rosemary
- 6eggs
- ⅔cup plain Greek yogurt or drained yogurt (2 percent or whole milk)
- Freshly ground pepper
Preparation
- Step 1
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Bring a large pot of water to a boil.
- Step 2
Strip chard leaves from stems. Wash both leaves and stems thoroughly. Set aside stems for another purpose. You should have about 6 cups leaves, tightly packed.
- Step 3
Add a generous amount of salt and the greens to the boiling water. Blanch greens for about 1 minute, until tender, and transfer to a bowl of cold water. Drain and take up chard by the handful to squeeze out excess water. Chop medium-fine. You should have about 1½ cups chopped chard.
- Step 4
Heat 1 tablespoon of the olive oil over medium heat in a heavy skillet and add green garlic, thyme and rosemary. Add a generous pinch of salt and cook, stirring often, until the garlic is fragrant, 2 to 3 minutes. Add chopped chard and cook, stirring, until ingredients are combined and greens are nicely coated with oil. Remove from heat.
- Step 5
Place remaining tablespoon of olive oil in a 2-quart gratin or baking dish, or in a 9-inch ovenproof skillet, and place in oven for 5 minutes. Meanwhile, whisk eggs in a large bowl. Season with salt (about ½ teaspoon) and freshly ground pepper to taste. Whisk in yogurt. Stir in greens mixture.
- Step 6
Remove baking dish from the oven, brush sides with hot oil, and scrape in the egg mixture. Place in oven and bake 30 minutes, or until set and slightly puffed. Remove from oven and allow to cool for at least 10 minutes before serving. Serve hot, warm, room temperature or cold.
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Very nice. Good, easy technique; could be varied in any number of ways.
The next time I make it, I will take it out of the oven 5 minutes earlier - I like my eggs slightly runnier.
I also cooked the chard ahead of time and then assembled the dish at the last minute. Works very well for that too.
It's good! Since I had both chard and braising mix in my CSA box this week I used them both in this dish, to good effect. Also added a couple of generous tablespoons of dijon mustard to the egg mixture.
This is an excellent base recipe. I thinly sliced three very small green bell peppers, and one and a half small onions on a mandoline, sauteed them until tender along with the chard stems which I also sliced very thinly. For herbs I used two thinly sliced cloves of garlic, some fresh oregano and fresh chives, and a little crushed red pepper. Nonfat Greek yogurt, and eight eggs. Why write all this? It came out great despite major deviations. Will definitely make this regularly to use up veggies.
Loved this, will definitely make again! Added feta as per others' suggestions, which gave it a nice pungency. Made a few substitutions, given what I had on hand: sage instead of thyme and rosemary (delish), beet greens for the chard, also lovely. I blanched the stems alongside the leaves- not only were they plenty tender, the red stems made for a beautiful presentation!
i also added the stems of the chard, chopped and sauted with the onion. i did not have green garlic so used small onion and lots of garlic. Added the garlic when onion and stems softened a bit. This frittata needs a flavor boost so i will try adding either feta (as suggested below) or another cheese and will up the amount of salt and pepper. Also suggest that folks check for doneness starting after about 20 minutes. Very easy to overcook and get a dry frittata.
Would love to hear folks thoughts on why chard stems were so specifically excluded from this recipe. It seems to me like they would be fine in it; am I missing something? (I always appreciate recipes that use the whole vegetable and don't require the cook to go off and not only find but make a second recipe to use up the unused bits).
I have made this recipe a number of times and always use the chard stems -- I just slice and sautee them along with other items at the beginning of step 4 (though I add the garlic a little later to give the chard stems enough time to cook). I think it adds a great additional texture to the frittata. (p.s.: I add feta to this recipe, which is also delicious!).
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