Serve with some of the pan juices from the pan. Buy pre washed and pre chopped collard greens for a shortcut. Ingredients 12 hickory smoked bacon slices finely chopped. Add the onion and cook til tender. Add salt and pepper to taste and the vinegar.
4 add the collard greens and the chicken broth or water and bring to a simmer. Traditionally southern collard greens are made with pork. Give the greens even more smoky flavor by adding a dash of smoked paprika to the broth. Heat oil in a large pot over medium high heat. Cook stirring occasionally until the collard greens have wilted and have lost their brightness.
Reduce the temp to medium low. Trim thick stems from collard greens. Add bacon and cook until crisp. Bring to a boil. Cut the bacon into bite size pieces and fry in a large stock pot.
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If you choose to wash and trim your own greens be sure that you rinse them really well to get out any sand or sediment in the leaves. Drain on paper towels. Crispy bacon sautéed onion ham and garlic perfect these southern style collard greens making them an essential part of your traditional southern feast. 1 cup diced onion. 1 tablespoon canola oil.
Add the collard greens the pot will seems overflowing but they wilt and stir until wilted cover them every couple of minutes for a couple of minutes to help wilt them. In a dutch oven saute bacon for 3 minutes. Drain off 1 2 of the bacon grease. Place bacon in a heavy pot and cook over medium high heat turning occasionally until fat begins to render about 5 minutes. Cook 8 9 minutes longer or until onion is tender and bacon is crisp.
Remove bacon from pan crumble and return to the pan. If you do not eat pork you can substitute 3 tablespoons olive oil for the bacon drippings. 1 cup 1 4 inch diced salt pork. Cover and simmer for 45 50 minutes or until greens are tender. 1 4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes optional.
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In this recipe chopped bacon is cooked until almost crisp and the drippings are used to saute chopped onions which forms the foundation of the dish along with chopped smoked ham and garlic. If you choose to wash and trim your own greens be sure that you rinse them really well to get out any sand or sediment in the leaves. Add 1 cup diced onion to the pot and cook 3 minutes. Reduce the temp to medium low. 4 add the collard greens and the chicken broth or water and bring to a simmer.
1 4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes optional. Serve with some of the pan juices from the pan.