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French style galettes with chard

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Vegetarian mains

French style galettes with chard

Main Serves 4 1h 20 min
Melting cheese, seasonal chard and a whole egg housed in a buckwheat pancake. These vegetarian galettes look impressive, but they're simple to cook. Vary the filling according to whim: this is also good with spinach, Comté or Cheddar, ham or the usual sweet pancake fillings.

Ingredients

  • 100g buckwheat flour
  • good pinch salt
  • 1 egg
  • 300ml milk
  • 400g chard, leaves stripped from their stalks
  • 50g butter, melted
  • sunflower oil, for oiling the pan
  • 4 eggs
  • 125g Gruyère or Cheddar, grated
  • salt and pepper

Method

Prep time: 1h 10 min
Cooking time: 10 min

  • Step 1

    To make the galette batter, sift the flour and salt into a mixing bowl. Make a well in the centre and add the egg, then whisk, adding the milk a little at a time, until you have a smooth batter. Leave to rest for at least 1 hour.

  • Step 2

    Meanwhile, blanch and squeeze the chard leaves then roughly chop.

  • Step 3

    Stir the melted butter into the batter. Heat a lightly oiled non-stick frying pan over a medium-high heat. Put a quarter of the batter into the pan, rolling it around to cover the surface of the pan. Cook for about a minute until golden on the underside, then carefully flip the galette over.

  • Step 4

    Crack an egg into the centre. Scatter a quarter of the chopped chard and grated cheese over the whole galette and season with salt and pepper.

  • Step 5

    When the underside is cooked to golden brown, use a spatula then your fingertips to lift then fold the edges of the galette into the centre to form a square. Serve immediately, repeating with the remainder of the batter and filling.