Category Archives: Silver beet

Kay Edgecumbe, Christchurch

Small garden and greens all winter. Silverbeet (chard to some) are perpetual if planted about mid summer is just huge before the winter stops it growing but before it bolts into seed. The leaves are so big that on leaf feeds one person for greens. And continuous picking lettuce also lasts all winter if planted […]

Gayle B, Christchurch. 

Making kale chips has become quite popular and is easy especially with the flatter varieties. I tried the same process with silver beet and it works well. Heat the oven to 150C. I spray a flat tray with rice oil, then after cutting out the white stem I rub both sides of the silver beet […]

XS, Auckland.

In the rural reaches of the Basque Country (Spain), silver beet (chard) is known as chuletas de la huerta, which translates as ‘chops from the vegetable garden’. Here’s a recipe from a book by Teresa Barrenechea (in Spiain they grow silver beet for the stems). You will need 10 silver beet stems with the leaves […]