Avalanche of swiss chard and courgettes. Your best recipes please!

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For some reason all my seeds have grown into plants and we have an avalanche of swiss chard and courgettes (DC and DH dont like courgettes).

What are your favorites recipes ?

grate courgette into meat sauce for shepherds pie - I bet they won't even know it's courgette. Courgette and carrot cake. Courgette chutney. Have never had swiss chard - must look out for it. I like courgette with pasta in a cheese or tomato sauce, but perhaps no good for those who don't like it. That said, I think they taste better with a bit of sauce than on their own.

courgettes are really nice as a vegetable on their own, just sliced and baked in a small roasting tin with knobs of butter and small sprinkle of fresh time, lots of black pepper and salt. bout 20 mins at the end of your roast potatos or whatever. For some reason oven baking like that really brings out the flavour. delish.

Swiss chard i grow as a substitute for spinach (the leaves anyway). So bung 'em in anything, quiches, curry, pasta, anywhere I'd use spinach. The stalks are supposed to be lovely sauteed with a little butter and salt/b/pepper, taste a bit like courgette.....

I treat my chard like spinach.Just lightly cooked or in a pasta sauce or in a quiche.
My courgettes are nowhere near ready yet...

thanks Lilo,wherever I can I disguise cougettes into meals. (tomato sauce) and yes they do like courgette cake (carrot cake but replace the carrot with courgette).

Will try the roasting with butter HBM as sounds lovely!

I also recommend the roasting, which i'd do with olive oil. I also think stupidly how you cut the courgette can make a difference.

Slice it in quarters lengthwise, cut out the seedy watery useless bit that was the middle.
Then cut diagonally. Jamie Oliver did it for a penne dish.

Chop an aubergine, a reasonable size courgette, a small red onion, and a yellow pepper, throw in oven proof dish, S&P and glug over olive oil. Roast maybe 30 mins - until it looks very slightly under roasted.

Roll out a sheet of frozen puff pastry (Thawed obviously) throw roasted veg onto pastry leaving about an inch of pastry all around. Brush edges with beaten egg. Cook high as per pastry instruction. Yummy

My other fave is sweet chilli veg and chicken stir fry, with cous cous. Stir fry diced chicken with any veg that is ready from the garden, add a couple of tablespoons of sweet chilli dipping sauce, serve with cous cous made with vegetable stock.

dh doesn't like courgette but will eat without noticing as part of kebabs (chunks of chicken, peppers, onion, demon courgette, marinated if time in lemon juice/garlic/rosemary and then threaded on skewer and grilled)
you can eat thinly sliced (or better, as less recognisable, shredded) raw in salads and they dont taste like courgettes (always an advantage)

Swiss chard spicy chutney - great with grilled/baked white fish or poultry.

chop a panful of swiss chard & 1 bunch parsley & 1 bunch coriander
add 4 crushed cloves garlic & 2 tsp cumin and olive oil
fry then cover to steam.

after 15 mn, remove lid, add 1 lemon juice and some chili flakes and more olive oil. reduce juices until almost dry. toss in some black or purple olives.

TIP: If you can find preserved lemons, add a chopped one instead of lemon juice at the end.
Much better