Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, southern collard greens. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna 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 appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Southern collard greens is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
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, which forms the foundation of. 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.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook southern collard greens using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Southern collard greens:
- Make ready 5 strips hickory smoked bacon, cut in big cubes
- Get 2 lb bag of pre-washed collard greens
- Prepare 1/4 cup sugar
- Get Pinch red pepper flakes
- Make ready 2 tbsp white vinegar
- Make ready 3 tbsp salt… add more to your taste
- Make ready 3 tbsp black pepper
- Prepare Splash olive oil at the end
It's the mainstay side dish of most every New Years Day meal. Rich deep greens and a tangy broth are what you find with Southern Soul Food Collard Greens and are what you'll find in this southern collard greens recipe. Collard Greens are good anytime of the year as a side dish and especially around the holiday times. World's Best Southern-Style Collard Greens With Smoked Ham Hocks Recipe.
Steps to make Southern collard greens:
- Sit greens in sink filled with cold water to rinse off any dirt.
- Cut each strip if bacon into 4 pieces. Cook in Dutch oven pot until crispy. Remove bacon and add greens. Fill pot with water until just covering the greens.
- Cover pot. After about 30 mins add salt, sugar, pepper and let boil, covered for an hour. Continue to stir about every 30 minutes until finished. Add pinch of red pepper at end. Add salt/ sugar and pepper to your liking.
- Add cooked bacon back into pot. Traditionally many used “fatback” instead of bacon for deeper flavor OR you may used smoked turkey wing or smoked turkey neck!
- Enjoy with sweet cornbread with a tad bit of hot sauce and vinegar
Southern collard greens, you should know, are one of those recipes that has unlimited variations. Each region, even each cook, has his or her own twist. This is how we had them at our company. Cut off and discard the tough stems and discolored leaves from the greens. Add the chopped collard greens and a sprinkle of sea salt, and stir well.
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