Easiest Way to Prepare Award-winning Southern collard greens

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, southern collard greens. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Southern collard greens is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Southern collard greens is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have southern collard greens using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Southern collard greens:

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

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

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