Steps to Prepare Homemade Southern Collard Greens

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Southern Collard Greens is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Southern Collard Greens is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook southern collard greens using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Southern Collard Greens:

1. Get collard greens
2. Make ready bacon chopped
3. Get garlic diced
4. Prepare a white or yellow onion chopped
5. Make ready chicken or vegetable stock
6. Take white vinegar
7. Make ready salt
8. Make ready black pepper
9. Make ready top cajun seasoning (optional)
10. Prepare shallot chopped (optional)

Instructions to make Southern Collard Greens:

1. Thoroughly wash the greens and devein each leaf (cut out the big middle vein). Then cross-cut the leaf into 1-2 strips.
2. In a Dutch oven or deep boiling pot, fry up bacon till crisp. Add garlic, onion, and shallot during the last 5 minutes.
3. Add chicken/vegetable stock, white vinegar, seasonings, and prepped collard greens. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat.
4. Simmer collard greens for 40-45 minutes. You'll know when they're done when they are easy to eat but still chewy.
5. Recommendations & Notes: Highly recommend serving with Tabasco or other fermented hot sauce of choice. Add other vegetables, we've done smoked corn, okra, and diced potatoes. This is also a crowd pleaser the day after cold.

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