Gourmet cooking doesn’t have to entail hours of cooking with a list of ingredients longer than your normal grocery list. Create meals bursting with complex flavors that will please every food snob in your life, easily.

All my years of getting multitudes of chard from the CSA farm, I’ve experimented with at least 70,000 ways to cook it. Time after time, I always come back to this easy, versatile saute. Three little ingredients and somehow the flavors magically blend together… perfection.

You can serve it as a side dish, with your protein on a bed of it (think grilled chicken or fish, even tempeh) or add sliced sausages to your saute and create an easy, healthy main dish.

Chard with Onion and Tamari

Ingredients:

• 1 bunch chard, coarsely chopped
• 1 small onion, chopped
• tamari, soy sauce or Bragg’s liquid aminos

In a skillet over medium high heat, saute the onion until tender, about 5 minutes. Add chard and saute until bright green and starting to limp, about 2-3 minutes. Sprinkle with tamari, heat through and serve.

I know — painfully easy, ridiculously healthy… how do you think you’ll serve it?