Kicking Southern Style Collard Greens Recipes

SOUTHERN STYLE COLLARD GREENS

Steps:

• Combine onions, ham hocks, and garlic in a stockpot; add chicken broth. Cook mixture over medium heat until meat is falling off the bone, about 2 hours.
• Stir collard greens, vinegar, sugar, salt, and pepper into the broth mixture; cook until greens have reached desired tenderness, about 2 more hours.

KICKIN' COLLARD GREENS

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Add bacon, and cook until crisp. Remove bacon from pan, crumble and return to the pan. Add onion, and cook until tender, about 5 minutes. Add garlic, and cook until just fragrant. Add collard greens, and fry until they start to wilt.
• Pour in chicken broth, and season with salt, pepper, and red pepper flakes. Reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer for 45 minutes, or until greens are tender.

KICKING SOUTHERN STYLE COLLARD GREENS

Steps:

• Heat oil in large pot of medium high heat. Add bacon, cook until crisp and remove from pan. Crumble and return to pan.
• Add onion and cook with bacon until tender, about 5 minutes.
• Add garlic and cook until fragrant.
• Add collard greens, cook until they start to wilt.
• Add chicken broth, salt, and pepper.
• Bring to boil, reduce hit, and simmer for about 45 minutes (until greens are tender).

KICKIN' VEGETARIAN COLLARD GREENS

Steps:

• Heat olive oil and butter in a large pot over medium heat until butter melts and starts to brown, 1 to 2 minutes. Add onion and garlic; cook and stir until onion turns translucent, about 5 minutes. Stir in thyme and bay leaves.
• Pour chopped tomatoes, vegetable broth, brown sugar, molasses, and liquid smoke into the pot; bring to a simmer. Stir in collard greens gently. Reduce heat to low and simmer, covered, until tender, about 30 minutes.

SOUTHERN-STYLE COLLARD GREENS

Steps:

• Cook bacon over medium heat in a 10-qt. stockpot for 10 to 12 minutes or until almost crisp.
• Add onion to stockpot, and sauté 8 minutes. Add garlic and ham, and sauté 1 minute. Stir in broth, collard greens, apple cider vinegar, sugar, salt, and pepper. Reduce heat to medium-low, and cook 2 hours or until desired degree of tenderness.

SOUTHERN STYLE GREENS

Steps:

• Spray the bottom of your largest stock or soup pot with non-stick spray and brown the ham hocks for a few minutes over med-high heat.
• Add the water to pot and scrape up any brown bits - but leave them in the pot for flavor.
• Add the diced turnips.
• Wash the greens to remove any dirt or sand and chop coarsely (removing large or tough stems.).
• Add greens to your pot - you can do this as you chop them and turn heat to medium-low. Stir the greens occasionally and add more water as neccesary.
• Season to taste with your greens seasoning mix. Appx. 1-3 tablespoons per pound of fresh greens.
• Let simmer, covered, for at least one hour - the longer, the better. Greens should be completely wilted and any stems should be very tender.
• Remove ham hocks from pot, let cool for a few minutes and then remove fat and bone.
• Chop the meat into small bits and add back to the pot.
• Adjust seasonings to taste.
• Serve with hot pepper vinegar to splash over the top.
• ***if a ready-made greens seasoning is not available - try using salt, pepper, garlic powder, dehydrated onions, paprika, etc. - or your favorite seasoning blend.
• ***this can also be a vegetarian dish - just leave out the ham hocks - but you might want to add a bit of "Liquid Smoke" to get that smoky flavor.