Recipe of Perfect Southern Collard Greens

Southern Collard Greens
Southern Collard Greens

Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, southern collard greens. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. 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. Make ready collard greens
  2. Get bacon chopped
  3. Prepare garlic diced
  4. Take a white or yellow onion chopped
  5. Get chicken or vegetable stock
  6. Prepare white vinegar
  7. Take salt
  8. Get black pepper
  9. Get top cajun seasoning (optional)
  10. Get shallot chopped (optional)
Steps 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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