Tourte de blettes is a pie from Nice, France, made with Swiss chard and baked in a crust made with olive oil. The filling usually combines chard with raisins, pine nuts, Parmesan or Gruyere cheese, sugar and apples, and the finished pie is often dusted with powdered sugar. It can be served as a savory main course or as a sweet dessert, and it is one of the traditional thirteen desserts served at Christmas in Nice, also eaten on New Year's Eve. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Tourte de blettes is a pie made with Swiss chard, which can be served as a main course or as a sweet dessert.
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The first written recipe for the chard pie dates back to the 15th century.
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