Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, southern collard greens. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Southern collard greens is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Southern collard greens is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

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, which forms the foundation of. 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.

To get started with this 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 it.

The ingredients needed to make Southern collard greens:

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

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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

Each region, even each cook, has his or her own twist. This is how we had them at our company. Add the chopped collard greens and a sprinkle of sea salt, and stir well. Reduce the heat to low, and cover the greens. These southern collard greens are simmered in rich and flavorful chicken broth with smoked turkey wings.

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