Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, collard greens. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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. Collards have dark green, fanlike leaves with tough stems.
Collard greens is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Collard greens is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook collard greens using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Collard greens:
- Make ready 1-2 bunches fresh greens
- Make ready 2-4 Smoked turkey legs
- Make ready Tbsp Apple cider vinegar
- Take Tsp sugar
- Prepare Tsp salt
- Take Tsp red pepper flakes
- Make ready 3-4 cups stock from smoked meat /or chicken broth can be used
- Take 1/2 lb Applewood Smoked bacon fried and chopped
- Get Tsp sugar
Melt bacon fat and heat olive oil on medium heat. Sauté onion until transparent, a couple of minutes. Add onion and garlic; cook and stir until tender. Add ham hocks, water, seasoned salt, pepper flakes, and sugar.
Steps to make Collard greens:
- Boil smoked meat in water keep the broth for cooking greens. once cooked remove meat to cool and remove from bone. Or use chicken broth.
- Add spices and greens to broth. Add meat and bring to a boil.
- Reduce heat to simmer until the greens are as tender as you like
- Eat and enjoy
- Cooked greens maybe frozen to use for another meal.
Collard greens contain a lot of vitamin K, and are also rich sources of vitamin A, vitamin C, and manganese. Best of all, they taste delicious when simmered low and slow with bacon, onion and garlic! Maybe you have tried Southern collard greens, which are slow-cooked with bacon or the like. Southern-style collard greens were inherited from Africa, and so were Brazilian collard greens, called "couve à mineira." I cooked these collards greens in the Brazilian style—quickly in hot oil, with some garlic and chili flakes. Heat oil in a large pot over medium-high heat.
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