Simple Way to Make Perfect My Southern Collard Greens

Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, my southern collard greens. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

My Southern Collard Greens is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. My Southern Collard Greens is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

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 the dish, along with chopped smoked ham and garlic. 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. I make collard green once a year on New Years Day and this recipe is THE BEST one I have EVER tried!!

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have my southern collard greens using 10 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make My Southern Collard Greens:

1. Prepare 1 lb Fresh or canned collard greens
2. Get 4 slices bacon
3. Make ready 2 tbsp oil
4. Make ready 1 medium yellow onion (chopped)
5. Take 4 garlic cloves (minced)
6. Take 1-2 cups chicken broth or 2 tbsp chicken soup base
7. Make ready 1 1/2 tsp brown sugar
8. Prepare Pinch salt (optional)
9. Take to taste Black pepper
10. Take 1 tsp butter

In the words of my great-grandmother, they might even. Southern collard greens, you should know, are one of those recipes that has unlimited variations. Each region, even each cook, has his or her own twist. This is how we had them at our company picnics, so long ago.

Instructions to make My Southern Collard Greens:

1. Cook the bacon on medium heat until it begins to crisp up. Once it does, remove it from the skillet and chop into bite-sized pieces.
2. Add olive oil and onion, fry it for 5-7 minutes, stirring frequently until softened. Afterwards add the garlic and cook an additional 30 seconds before adding in the collard greens.
3. After you stir the greens together with the onions and garlic, add in the chicken broth or soup base, brown sugar, salt, pepper and stir well, reduce heat to low and simmer for 90 minutes until the collard greens are tender. Ya'll they're so good. You'll end up eating the whole pan like I do.😎

Each region, even each cook, has his or her own twist. This is how we had them at our company picnics, so long ago. Southern Collard Greens, that delicious green vegetable served year round in most Southern households. It's the mainstay side dish of most every New Years Day meal. Why then, would collard greens be the first recipe on a brand new website?

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