Ingredients

  • 2 bunches chard
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • salt
  • ground black pepper
  • 1 roll puff pastry
  • 1 package feta cheese
  • 3 9/16 tablespoons pine nuts
  • 1 egg yolk

Method

  • Remove chard leaves from stalk, chop coarsely.
  • Wash several times in water, and cook in a pan with a tablespoon of olive oil.
  • Cook until the water has evaporated, Season with salt and pepper.
  • Set aside.
  • Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
  • Roll out puff pastry, and spread in a rectangular baking tray. Cut out rectangular shape if necessary.
  • Create a line of chard leaves in the middle of the dough.
  • Top with crumbled feta and pine nuts.
  • Cut diagonal strips (width 1.5 cm) in the dough, on each side of the line of chard leaves.
  • Fold a strip taken from the right side, and then another from the left side, over the chard and cheese mixture, to form a braid (see photo).
  • Brush with egg yolk.
  • Bake 15 to 20 minutes until golden.