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Rainbow Chard Quick Pickles

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One of the best things about being back in LA? The farmer’s markets.

Rainbow Chard Quick Pickles by Diane, A Broad (dianeabroad.com)

Sure, there are a ton of open air markets in Paris, but a large chunk of the produce vendors get their fruits and vegetables from Rungis, a huge warehouse wholesale food market in the suburbs. This beautiful bundle of rainbow chard, on the other hand, was purchased at the Mar Vista Farmer’s Market, from a kindly gentleman from Jimenez Family Farm, who informed me that no pesticides were used in growing it — “We use bugs to kill bugs.”

Rainbow Chard Quick Pickles by Diane, A Broad (dianeabroad.com)

I used the leaves in a sausage and sweet potato soup, and was left with the vibrant rainbow stalks. So I pickled them. Waste not, want not, right?

Rainbow Chard Quick Pickles by Diane, A Broad (dianeabroad.com)

Added benefit: after a few days, the brine leeches a bit of the color out of the stalks, making the prettiest picklebacks ever.

Rainbow Chard Quick Pickles by Diane, A Broad (dianeabroad.com)

Rainbow Chard Quick Pickles

Yield: 1 pint of rainbow chard pickles and brine.

Rainbow Chard Quick Pickles

Ingredients

  • stalks from 1 bunch of rainbow chard
  • 3/4 cup boiling water
  • 1/2 cup rice wine vinegar
  • 6 tablespoons sugar
  • 2 1/4 teaspoons kosher salt

Directions

  1. Trim the rainbow chard stalks so they will fit vertically into a pint-sized mason jar. Remove any extraneous leaf matter. Place the stalks in the jar; it should be a tight fit.
  2. Mix the boiling water, vinegar, sugar, and salt, and stir until the sugar and salt dissolve. Pour the mixture into the jar over the chard stalks and seal tightly. Refrigerate.
  3. The pickles will be ready in about four days, and will keep for about a month.
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