Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, my southern collard greens. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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. 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. These collard greens may take a few hours to simmer, but they only require a few minutes of hands-on cooking time.
My Southern Collard Greens is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. My Southern Collard Greens is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have my southern collard greens using 10 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make My Southern Collard Greens:
- Make ready 1 lb Fresh or canned collard greens
- Prepare 4 slices bacon
- Take 2 tbsp oil
- Prepare 1 medium yellow onion (chopped)
- Get 4 garlic cloves (minced)
- Make ready 1-2 cups chicken broth or 2 tbsp chicken soup base
- Make ready 1 1/2 tsp brown sugar
- Prepare Pinch salt (optional)
- Make ready to taste Black pepper
- Make ready 1 tsp butter
This is the beloved pot liquor, a way to rescue the greens which have been cooked to the point that most of the flavor and nutrition has transferred to the juice. My Southern Collard Greens Collard Greens are the perfect Southern inspired side dish and so full of flavor packed with hints of onions, garlic and applewood smoked bacon notes. This dish will be a hit! Those greens went great with my candi yams, oven fried chicken, fresh steamed corn on the cob and hot water cornbread.
Steps to make My Southern Collard Greens:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.😎
Yes I am a southern that love good food. Collard greens are a type of leafy green vegetable that are common in Southern cuisine. The plant has dark green leaves and tough stems, and is included in the same family as kale, turnip greens and mustard greens. 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.
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