Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Award-winning Slow Cooked Collard Greens

Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, slow cooked collard greens. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Slow Cooked Collard Greens is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Slow Cooked Collard Greens is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook slow cooked collard greens using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Slow Cooked Collard Greens:

1. Take (or bunches) of cleaned and chopped Collards or Turnip or Mustard Greens (or any combination of greens listed above)
2. Prepare olive oil
3. Get onion, sliced
4. Take garlic cloves, smashed
5. Prepare bay leaves
6. Take bacon, chopped
7. Take chicken broth, warm
8. Make ready cider vinegar
9. Prepare sugar
10. Get Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper

Steps to make Slow Cooked Collard Greens:

1. 2 BAGS OF CLEANED AND CHOPPED GREENS. (prefer Glory brand)
2. Heat pot over medium heat and add bacon. Render fat from bacon at medium heat until bacon is crisp. Remove crisp bacon pieces onto a paper towel and set aside. Keep the bacon fat in the pot.
3. Add the onion, garlic. Cook until the onions are soft and starting to brown, about 8 to 10 minutes.
4. Add the broth (scraping any brown bits from bottom of pot), vinegar, and sugar. Pack in the greens, pushing them down into the pot.
5. Add Bay leaves.
6. Bring up to a boil turning the greens over occasionally with a wooden spoon as they wilt. Lower to a simmer, cover the pot, and let cook for 45 minutes.
7. Taste the "pot likkor" (broth) and check the seasoning, add salt and pepper.
8. Cover and let cook for 15 more minutes or until tender.
9. Remove the bay leaves and serve.

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