Slow Cooked Collard Greens
Slow Cooked Collard Greens

Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, slow cooked collard greens. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Collard greens are a southern style recipe with amazing smoke flavor. These greens go amazing with Slow Cooker New Years Day. Tender, spicy, smoky collard greens simmering in a slow cooker are worth the wait.

Slow Cooked Collard Greens is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Slow Cooked Collard Greens is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have slow cooked collard greens using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Slow Cooked Collard Greens:
  1. Make ready 2 bags (or bunches) of cleaned and chopped Collards or Turnip or Mustard Greens (or any combination of greens listed above)
  2. Prepare 3 tablespoons olive oil
  3. Make ready 1 onion, sliced
  4. Get 2 garlic cloves, smashed
  5. Prepare 2 bay leaves
  6. Make ready 10 oz bacon, chopped
  7. Get 2 quarts chicken broth, warm
  8. Get 2 tablespoons cider vinegar
  9. Prepare 1 teaspoon sugar
  10. Make ready Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper

Remove the ham hocks from the slow cooker. Trim and discard any fat and bones. Sauté onions and garlic in a. Cooking this classic Southern side in a slow cooker not only frees you up to prepare other dishes, it frees up valuable stovetop space, as well.

Steps to make Slow Cooked Collard Greens:
  1. 2 BAGS OF CLEANED AND CHOPPED GREENS. (prefer Glory brand)
  2. Heat pot over medium heat and add bacon. Render fat from bacon at medium heat until bacon is crisp. Remove crisp bacon pieces onto a paper towel and set aside. Keep the bacon fat in the pot.
  3. Add the onion, garlic. Cook until the onions are soft and starting to brown, about 8 to 10 minutes.
  4. Add the broth (scraping any brown bits from bottom of pot), vinegar, and sugar. Pack in the greens, pushing them down into the pot.
  5. Add Bay leaves.
  6. Bring up to a boil turning the greens over occasionally with a wooden spoon as they wilt. Lower to a simmer, cover the pot, and let cook for 45 minutes.
  7. Taste the "pot likkor" (broth) and check the seasoning, add salt and pepper.
  8. Cover and let cook for 15 more minutes or until tender.
  9. Remove the bay leaves and serve.

You can also make this holiday favorite a week or two ahead and freeze in air-tight bags, or make Collard Greens a day or two in. These healthy meatless collard greens are gluten free, dairy free (no butter), and suitable both for vegan and vegetarian diets. There, collard greens, which taste like a cross between kale and cabbage, star in a dish that inspires lots of love and plenty of controversy, too. I like to think the slow cooker was invented by a Southern home cook. Collards can sit in there for hours on end, breaking down as they should, the liquid turning into pot likker, the residual elixir of greens cookery that is like culinary platinum in the South.

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