Cold Cuts Stack with Swiss Chard
I had a hankering for a sandwich for lunch but am trying to avoid bread these days. So I decided I would try doing something totally off-the-wall new today. I had a bit of Swiss chard I also wanted to use up and the light bulb went off in my head. This breadless sandwich was just amazing in flavor. It’s high in sodium because……well…..it’s cheese and cold cuts folks! So nothing I can do about that sodium. But the bed of sauteed chard mellowed that sodium quite a bit and added something to the sandwich. The final dot of my Sofrito sauce was an after thought but it ended up “making” the dish the flavor bang I wanted it to be. I hope you’ll try this some time. It was really delicious! This is suitable for all phases of Atkins, Keto diets and Primal if you eat occasional cheese. Unacceptable for Paleo, however.
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INGREDIENTS:
2 slices bacon
1 oz. (2 very thin slices) Black Forest ham
1 large leaf of Swiss chard, stemmed, chopped coarsely
1 oz. (2 very thin slices) Muenster cheese (or other white cheese like Swiss)
1 oz. smoked Gouda cheese, sliced thin (or more Muenster)
1 oz. (4 very thin slices) hard salami
1 slice Roma tomato
1 tsp. my Sofrito sauce (optional, but it’s REALLY good on this creation)
DIRECTIONS: Brown the bacon on one side of a non-stick skillet. Brown the 2 slices of ham on the other side. Remove to paper towels and turn off heat. Add chard to the pan and stir in the hot pan until it is wilted (pan is hot enough without any heat added). Plate the chard. Lay 1 slice of Muenster cheese on top. Next lay 2 slices of hard salami in an overlapping fashion. Next the other slice of Muenster. Next the second slice of ham followed by the other 2 slices of hard salami. Lay the smoked Gouda next and follow with the two slices of bacon criss-crossed. Crown it all with a single slice of tomato and dot with the tomato with the teaspoon of sofrito sauce. Pop in microwave on DEFROST for about 1-2 minutes to melt the cheese and serve at once.
NUTRITIONAL INFO: Makes 1 serving which contains:
454 calories
89 g fat
4.2 g carbs, .9 g fat, 3.3 g NET CARBS
30.5 g fat
1781 mg sodium (use less luhchmeat, cheese and bacon to lower the sodium)
Buttoni's Low-Carb Recipes 
I like to add whatever kind of sandwich fixins’ I want on a bed of spinach instead of having bread. My faves are philly cheese steak, BLT, turkey, bacon, swiss, and reuben. YUM!
Yes, I’ve done spinach before, too. I just happened to have 2 leaves of chard to use up when I did this. 🙂
Instead of chopping the chard, you can use a big leaf to make a sandwich “wrap”. Just any big rib out. Collards work great, too.
I don’t think I’d like chard raw. The rib is too tough, too. If one cut the stem/rib out, the leaf would be too small to roll/wrap I think.