Since we've joined our CSA, Jubilee Farms, we've gotten a very large bag of mixed braising greens every week. Sometimes two bags! What to do with all this! One can only eat so many stir frys!
Last week I went straight to work.
Preheating the oven to 200 degrees, I washed the greens then spread them out on a cookie sheet.
Then I let them dry to a crisp in the oven for about 2 hours.
Once they were crispy and cool, I put them in a zip lock bag and pounded the heck out of them until they were pretty fine.
The result was I had a huge bag of greens that would have taken 3 stir frys reduced to a small bag! Much more manageable!
A few evenings later we were looking for an easy dinner to make. Pasta and a jar of marinara is always an easy fix, but I wanted to use some of our greens.
I warmed up the marinara (Trader Joe's Organic Marinara) in a small saucepan, then tossed in the entire baggy of braising greens!
I gave it a few stirs and let it simmer for awhile.
After the pasta was done cooking we tossed it altogether and topped it with grated Parmesan.
And we each got a half a bag worth of all the good stuff in the braising greens in one dish! Oh, and you couldn't even taste a difference!
This dish can be vegetarian, or you can cook up some chicken in olive oil and garlic to add some protein.
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