Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, collard greens. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will 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 is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Collard Greens is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have collard greens using 5 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Collard Greens:
- Prepare 1 bag cleaned collard greens
- Get 1 ham hock bone or leftover ham bone
- Make ready 1 cup cubed ham or leftover ham
- Make ready 2 cup water
- Take 1 Tablespoon vinegar
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.
Instructions to make Collard Greens:
- Place ham hock in pot and pour bag over it then top with ham and bacon pieces add seasonings now.. I use salt lightly, pepper, garlic, and laity it of Lawrys salt
- Place on a medium high heat once it comes to boil you will hear a simmer stir and cover pot with lid .. Looks similar to this
- Stir occasionally for at least 2 hrs I do mine on lowest setting simmer.. They will turn a dark green.. But taste as you go you might not like yours as tender as mine!
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Collard greens are a cruciferous vegetable that may have multiple health benefits. The nutrients and fiber in collard greens can aid digestion and muscle movement, improve the skin, enhance sleep. 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.
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