Steps to Prepare Perfect Southern collard greens

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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. 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. All Reviews for Southern Style Collard Greens.

Southern collard greens is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Southern collard greens is something which I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook southern collard greens using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Southern collard greens:

1. Make ready 5 strips hickory smoked bacon, cut in big cubes
2. Take 2 lb bag of pre-washed collard greens
3. Make ready 1/4 cup sugar
4. Prepare Pinch red pepper flakes
5. Make ready 2 tbsp white vinegar
6. Make ready 3 tbsp salt… add more to your taste
7. Get 3 tbsp black pepper
8. Make ready Splash olive oil at the end

This vegetarian southern collard greens recipe is family approved which isn't easy to do in my deep south, tell it like it is, family. Try bringing a pot of collard greens to dinner that doesn't have a slab of. Southern Collard Greens, that delicious green vegetable served year round in most Southern households. It's the mainstay side dish of most every New Years Day meal.

Steps to make Southern collard greens:

1. Sit greens in sink filled with cold water to rinse off any dirt.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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!
5. Enjoy with sweet cornbread with a tad bit of hot sauce and vinegar

Southern Collard Greens, that delicious green vegetable served year round in most Southern households. It's the mainstay side dish of most every New Years Day meal. Cut off and discard the tough stems and discolored leaves from the greens. These Southern collard greens are seasoned with diced bacon or hog jowl along with onion and seasonings. Crispy bacon, sautéed onion, ham, and garlic perfect these Southern-Style Collard Greens, making them an essential part of your.

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