Down Home Southern Greens Recipes

KICKIN' COLLARD GREENS

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Add bacon, and cook until crisp. Remove bacon from pan, crumble and return to the pan. Add onion, and cook until tender, about 5 minutes. Add garlic, and cook until just fragrant. Add collard greens, and fry until they start to wilt.
• Pour in chicken broth, and season with salt, pepper, and red pepper flakes. Reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer for 45 minutes, or until greens are tender.

SOUTHERN-STYLE COLLARD GREENS

Steps:

• Cook bacon over medium heat in a 10-qt. stockpot for 10 to 12 minutes or until almost crisp.
• Add onion to stockpot, and sauté 8 minutes. Add garlic and ham, and sauté 1 minute. Stir in broth, collard greens, apple cider vinegar, sugar, salt, and pepper. Reduce heat to medium-low, and cook 2 hours or until desired degree of tenderness.

SOUTHERN GREEN BEANS

Steps:

• Snap the Green Beans and wash.
• Place bacon in the bottom of the pot and let fry until a little crunchy.
• Remove the Bacon and pour the bacon dripping from the pot (leave some drippings in the pot for flavor). Don't scrap the pan because you want the flavor of the bacon and the dripping to season your green beans.
• Place the green beans, and the other ingredients into the pot with the Bacon
• Cook until the green beans are soft. About 1 1/2 hour on low.

SOUTHERN STYLE COLLARD GREENS

Steps:

• Combine onions, ham hocks, and garlic in a stockpot; add chicken broth. Cook mixture over medium heat until meat is falling off the bone, about 2 hours.
• Stir collard greens, vinegar, sugar, salt, and pepper into the broth mixture; cook until greens have reached desired tenderness, about 2 more hours.

DOWN-HOME COLLARD GREENS

Steps:

• In a large pot, combine the broth, water, ham hocks, garlic, vinegar, sugar and red pepper. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Add the collard greens in batches, covering the pan and waiting for each batch to wilt before adding the next batch. Transfer to a 3 1/2 quart slow cooker. Cover and cook until the greens are very tender, 4-5 hours on low. Remove the ham hocks, remove and discard the skin. Remove the meat from the bones, coarsely chop the meat, and return to the slow cooker. Season the greens with salt to taste.

DOWN HOME COLLARD GREENS

Steps:

• Put collard greens in a pot full of lightly salted water; bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium-low, and cook until tender, about 1 hour. Drain.
• Cook bacon in a large skillet over medium-high heat until crisp, about 10 minutes. Drain the bacon on paper towels.
• Melt butter in a large pot over medium heat. Cook and stir onion in melted butter until tender, 7 to 10 minutes. Stir bacon, chicken bouillon, water, garlic, oregano, thyme, and savory into the onion; bring to a boil. Stir collard greens into the mixture and simmer 5 minutes. Pour milk over the mixture, stir, and cook another 5 minutes.