How to Prepare Award-winning Southern Collard Greens

Southern Collard Greens
Southern Collard Greens

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, southern collard greens. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Southern Collard Greens is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Southern Collard Greens is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

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

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

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