La Trucha a Niçoise Favourite
The trucha is a nourishing staple of Cuisine Nissarde. Enjoy it hot, warm, or cold with olive oil and crusty bread. This recipe makes enough for two (2) people for a lunchtime meal. * Variations listed in notes.
Equipment
- 1 large serving dish to flip the truccha mid-way through cooking
Ingredients
- 6 large Eggs
- 2.2 lbs Swiss Chard Greens
- 1 large onion
- 1 garlic clove
- 100 g Parmesan cheese or Sbrinz cheese, grated
- olive oil
- salt and pepper
Instructions
- Separate the greens from the Swiss chard ribs (or better still, just use the leafy green parts). Cut the chard leaves into 1 cm strips. Rinse the chopped chard well in cold water 2 or 3 times. This is an important step, as it removes the acidity from the chard. Drain carefully.
- Cut the onion into small cubes and let it brown in a pan with a generous amount of olive oil.
- In a bowl, beat the eggs, and add the cheese, the chard, and the cooked onion. Add salt and pepper.
- Generously oil a non-stick pan (even one with a non-stick base) with two tablespoons of olive oil and heat over a moderate flame. Pour in the mixture and cook over low heat, pressing down well with a wooden spatula to obtain a thickness of 2 to 3 centimetres (about 1 inch) thick (the volume of the chard will decrease by half as it cooks).
- This is the tricky part of the recipe: the truccha must not stick to the pan’s surface and should have a nice colour. After 20 minutes, when the top of the truccha starts to set, flip it over with a serving dish.
- Oil the pan again and cook for 15 minutes on medium heat without a lid.
Notes
Variations:
Blanch the chard greens in 2 litres of salted water. Allow them to cool down, and press them hard between your hands to extract the excess water. Chop coarsely with a knife.
Break up the chard with a fork and a clove of garlic. When cooked, drain and squeeze out the moisture with your hands. Chop the chard with a knife.
In season, a few chopped chervil or parsley leaves can be added to the eggs, but this is not essential to the recipe, which is already very tasty if the chard is of high quality.
Mix 50 grams of pine nuts, previously roasted in the oven, into the mixture.
Break up the chard with a fork and a clove of garlic. When cooked, drain and squeeze out the moisture with your hands. Chop the chard with a knife.
In season, a few chopped chervil or parsley leaves can be added to the eggs, but this is not essential to the recipe, which is already very tasty if the chard is of high quality.
Mix 50 grams of pine nuts, previously roasted in the oven, into the mixture.
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