Steps to Prepare Perfect Slow Cooked Collard Greens

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, slow cooked collard greens. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Collard greens are a southern style recipe with amazing smoke flavor. These greens go amazing with Slow Cooker New Years Day. Collard greens are cooked all day with ham shanks and pickled jalapeno. As soon as the greens begin wilting, start transferring the greens to the slow cooker.

Slow Cooked Collard Greens is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Slow Cooked Collard Greens is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

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

The ingredients needed to make Slow Cooked Collard Greens:

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

Cooking this classic Southern side in a slow cooker not only frees you up to prepare other dishes, it frees up valuable stovetop space, as well. You can also make this holiday favorite a week or two ahead and freeze in air-tight bags, or make Collard Greens a day or two in. Add the collard greens to a slow cooker with the onion, ham hocks, brown sugar, pepper, salt, apple cider vinegar, and chicken broth. Remove the ham hocks from the slow cooker.

Instructions 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.

Add the collard greens to a slow cooker with the onion, ham hocks, brown sugar, pepper, salt, apple cider vinegar, and chicken broth. Remove the ham hocks from the slow cooker. Trim and discard any fat and bones. Tear the leaves into bite-sized pieces. Collard greens need a gentle, slow, luxurious braise in fragrant liquid (rather like a spa treatment), which makes a slow cooker Braising is ideal for sturdy greens, like collard, kale, turnip, and mustard, but not for flimsier greens, like chard and spinach, which will.

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