If you celebrate Meatless Monday, follow a vegetarian diet or simply want to save money and calories by eating less meat, my Garlicky Pasta with Swiss Chard and Beans is for you!
Feel free to experiment with various leafy greens such as spinach or kale. No cannelini beans? Navy or chick peas would work perfectly. The options are endless.
Your fork is waiting.
Garlicky Pasta with Swiss Chard and Beans
Author: Liz DellaCroce | The Lemon Bowl
Nutrition Information
- Serves: 4
- Serving size: 1
- Calories: 316
- Fat: 5.4g
- Saturated fat: 0.4g
- Carbohydrates: 65.3g
- Fiber: 15g
- Protein: 14.2g
- Cholesterol: 0
Recipe type: Entree
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Ingredients
- 8 oz whole wheat pasta
- 1 tbs olive oil
- 1 bunch swiss chard – stems removed and finely chopped (keep stems!)
- Pinch kosher salt
- ½ tsp chili flakes – optional
- 2 garlic cloves – grated with microplane
- 15 oz can diced tomatoes
- 15 oz can cannelini beans – drained and rinsed
- fresh parsley and basil – optional
- parmesan cheese to serve
Instructions
- Cook pasta according to package instructions. Note: For al dente pasta, cook one minute less than package suggests.)
- Reserve ½ c starchy cooking liquid before straining pasta; set pasta aside. Meanwhile, heat olive oil in the same pot you cooked the pasta over medium-high heat.
- Add Swiss chard stems and a good pinch of salt.
- Saute for 5-7 minutes until stems start to soften.
- Add in roughly chopped Swiss chard leaves and reserved cooking liquid.
- Put cover on the pan and let steam to wilt about 2-3 minutes.
- Stir in chili flakes, garlic, tomatoes and beans. Cook for 5 minutes to warm through.
- Toss in reserved pasta. Serve with fresh parsley, basil and parmesan cheese.
Notes
Excellent source of Vitamins A and C, good source Iron and Calcium
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This looks amazing!!!! I love that photo!
Thank you so much Jen! Appreciate it.
I’m hoping to grow some Swiss chard this winter. Can’t wait to try this mouth-watering dish!
Thank you so much! I hope you enjoy it. I will be having the leftovers for lunch today.
This looks heavenly! Can’t wait to try!
Thank you Chelsea! It was extremely satisfying!!
I wish I could just dig right in! It looks so good!
I wish you could too!! It doesn’t take long to make at all – let me know if you try it!
This looks delicious, Liz! I love swiss chard.
Me too!! Don’t tell spinach but Swiss chard is my favorite leafy green.
Mmm this looks delicious. We have been eating vegetarian a lot recently. I will be giving this a try!
So have we! It’s such a great way to save money and calories. Especially when everything is in season!
Mmmmm…..swiss chard and all those tasty ingredients. What a quick and delicious meal.
A bit of everything in a great recipe! Looks wonderful
Thank you Paula!
Oh, I just want to dive into your bowl of pasta with a fork! YUM! Happy #SundaySupper!
haha – Let me know if you try it!!
What a lovely dish!
Thanks so much Conni!
We don’t always do the meatless thing on Monday, but we do try to eat a couple vegetarian meals each week, so this will be great to try!
We have been eating more and more meatless main dishes – Monday or any day of the week. It’s easy on the wallet and lighter on the waistline! Win Win.
Oh yea, bring on the garlic! WOOT!
Never too much garlic in my book.
Garlic? Chard? Cannellini Beans? YUM! I love everything about this dish – but of course, you had me at “Garlicky”. Bookmarked.
hahaha – garlicky is my favorite word too!
I love the nutty taste of whole wheat pasta–this looks wonderful–cheese, swiss chard, big bowl of pasta–what else could one want?
I love whole wheat pasta too! Regular pasta is just filling without any flavor, in my book.
Hi Liz – Love the flavors and textures going on in this dish! This is on my roster of recipes to try! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much – let me know what you think if you make it!!
I feel healthy already just looking at the dish. The combination of flavors sound really good together! Thank you for sharing.
It really is a dish that you can feel good about in every way! let me know what you think if you make it!
What a beautiful and healthy recipe! Thank you for sharing during #SundaySupper!
Love the edition of the cannelli beans, yummy!!
Thank you so much – they are one of my favorite ways to bump up protein in pasta!
I love the sound of this recipe, and since I just learned that swiss chard is a hybrid of beet greens, which I have a lot of, I am excited to give this a try this week. Thanks for sharing.
Yes they are! I actually think they taste very similar. Enjoy!!
I love pasta dishes like this! Great combo!
Thank you so much Cindy! I hope you enjoy
Love a big bowl of pasta that is full of healthy things so I can eat more!
That’s my theory!!! I like the way you think, Erin!
That photo of your pasta looks so good – I seriously started drooling when I saw it. Everyone’s #SundaySupper this week has been amazing but I’m especially drawn to the vegetarian ones. I’m a huge meat eater and I need to incorporate some more meatless meals into my diet. I love the combination of ingredients here – fresh & healthy!
We try to eat meatless a few times a week as well. This one definitely doesn’t taste like it’s lacking anything!!
I love Swiss Chard! I don’t see it nearly often enough around here. Your pasta looks great!
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I could go for a big bowl of this right now! Mmmm.
Also, question: What program did you use to calculate the nutrition facts? I’ve been using Spark Recipes, but I was wondering if there was anything better out there. Thanks girl!
I could too!!! Maybe for lunch…
I actually use MyFoodDiary.com for all of my nutritional information. I use it personally as well (down 55 lbs in the past 12 months!) HIGHLY recommend it!! Let me know if you have any other questions!!
Wow! That’s awesome! You go girl!
I need to loose that last 13 pounds from having Liam. ‘I think I can. I think I can…’
Tell me about it!! I’ll never forget when I had Asher and looked in the mirror and still looked pregnant – eek!!
You can do it!!! xo
This was so yummy! My husband and son loved it too!
I am so glad to hear it!! I will need to make it again soon myself- so healthy!!
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