Steps to Prepare Quick Southern Collard Greens

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Southern Collard Greens is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Southern Collard Greens is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

Traditionally, Southern collard greens are made with pork. In this recipe, chopped bacon is cooked until almost crisp and the drippings are used to saute chopped onions. Southern-style collard greens simmered with ham hock just like mama used to make is a tasty side dish and will bring you good luck in the New Year. All Reviews for Southern Style Collard Greens.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook southern collard greens using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Southern Collard Greens:

1. Take 2-3 bunches collard greens
2. Make ready 6 pieces bacon chopped
3. Make ready 4 cloves garlic diced
4. Take 1/2 a white or yellow onion chopped
5. Make ready 3 C chicken or vegetable stock
6. Make ready 3 C white vinegar
7. Take 1 tsp salt
8. Get 1 tbs black pepper
9. Make ready 1 top cajun seasoning (optional)
10. Get 1 shallot chopped (optional)

I've been told that when I was little, I would turn down a bowl of ice cream for a bowl of collards and some cornbread. Southern Collard Greens, that delicious green vegetable served year round in most Southern households. It's the mainstay side dish of most every New Years Day meal. Cut off and discard the tough stems and discolored leaves from the greens.

Instructions to make Southern Collard Greens:

1. Thoroughly wash the greens and devein each leaf (cut out the big middle vein). Then cross-cut the leaf into 1-2 strips.
2. In a Dutch oven or deep boiling pot, fry up bacon till crisp. Add garlic, onion, and shallot during the last 5 minutes.
3. Add chicken/vegetable stock, white vinegar, seasonings, and prepped collard greens. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat.
4. Simmer collard greens for 40-45 minutes. You'll know when they're done when they are easy to eat but still chewy.
5. Recommendations & Notes: Highly recommend serving with Tabasco or other fermented hot sauce of choice. Add other vegetables, we've done smoked corn, okra, and diced potatoes. This is also a crowd pleaser the day after cold.

It's the mainstay side dish of most every New Years Day meal. Cut off and discard the tough stems and discolored leaves from the greens. Crispy bacon, sautéed onion, ham, and garlic perfect these Southern-Style Collard Greens, making them an essential part of your. These Southern collard greens are seasoned with diced bacon or hog jowl along with onion and seasonings. Collard greens are a classic Southern comfort-food that are great as a side dish or as a main course.

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