Monday, March 14, 2011

Chard Tacos - Vegan/Low Fat/Low Cal Section

---As Stolen & modified from Allrecipes---

Disclaimer: These sound like they would be terrible - but they were awesome!!

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil
  • Some green onion
  • 3 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 tablespoon red pepper flakes, or to taste
  • 1/2 cup chicken broth
  • 1 bunch Swiss chard, tough stems removed and leaves cut crosswise into 1 1/2-inch slices
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 12 corn tortillas
  • 1 cup crumbled queso fresco cheese or any cheese <------non-vegan
  • 3/4 cup salsa
  • Cooked whole grain rice <-----I added that since I was out of salsa

Directions

  1. Heat the olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Cook onion. garlic and red pepper flakes, stirring until fragrant, about 1 minute. Stir in the chicken broth, Swiss chard, and salt. Cover and reduce heat to low. Simmer until chard is nearly tender, about 5 minutes. Remove lid and increase heat to medium, stirring until the liquid evaporates, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and set aside.
  2. I use a pancake skillet, Crisp up the tortillas in the skillet for about 1-5 minute per side. Fill the warmed tortillas with the chard, and top with the queso fresco cheese, salsa and/or whole grain rice.

2 comments:

  1. Not quite vegan, does have cheese and chicken broth but pretty close to vegetarian. Gonna have to make this one, thanks Echo!

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  2. Thank Heidi. She's the one who found this recipe. Sounds pretty good. You can always replace chicken broth with water, but you will lose a little flavor. If you add a little extra salt, it may be better. There are vegetarian cheeses at your local Whole Foods store. Let me know if you have any questions. :)

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