My Southern Collard Greens
My Southern Collard Greens

Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, my southern collard greens. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

My version of Southern Collard Greens uses bacon, apple cider vinegar, and crushed red pepper. Then, to finish them off, I cook up some more bacon and crumble it on top for a texture contrast. 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.

My Southern Collard Greens is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. My Southern Collard Greens is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook my southern collard greens using 10 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make My Southern Collard Greens:
  1. Prepare 1 lb Fresh or canned collard greens
  2. Get 4 slices bacon
  3. Prepare 2 tbsp oil
  4. Take 1 medium yellow onion (chopped)
  5. Prepare 4 garlic cloves (minced)
  6. Take 1-2 cups chicken broth or 2 tbsp chicken soup base
  7. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp brown sugar
  8. Make ready Pinch salt (optional)
  9. Take to taste Black pepper
  10. Get 1 tsp butter

The plant has dark green leaves and tough stems, and is included in the same family as kale, turnip greens and mustard greens. Collard Greens Nutrition: Collard greens contain a lot of vitamin K, and are also rich sources of. Leafy collard greens take a long, slow simmer in a ham hock bath, with flakes of hot pepper tossed in for kicks. Some folks like to shred the ham hock meat into the greens before serving up in bowls.

Instructions to make My Southern Collard Greens:
  1. Cook the bacon on medium heat until it begins to crisp up. Once it does, remove it from the skillet and chop into bite-sized pieces.
  2. Add olive oil and onion, fry it for 5-7 minutes, stirring frequently until softened. Afterwards add the garlic and cook an additional 30 seconds before adding in the collard greens.
  3. After you stir the greens together with the onions and garlic, add in the chicken broth or soup base, brown sugar, salt, pepper and stir well, reduce heat to low and simmer for 90 minutes until the collard greens are tender. Ya'll they're so good. You'll end up eating the whole pan like I do.😎

For me, southern collard greens are just about my favorite vegetable. 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. It's funny too, because at the end of the season, my grandfather would harvest the remaining leaves and pull up the collard plants and I would take the. Southern Collard Greens, a side dish served in Southern homes all year round. It's a traditional favorite for New Years Day as the greens are supposed to bring wealth for the New Year.

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