The Best Soul Food Style Collard Greens Recipes

SOUL FOOD COLLARD GREENS

Steps:

• In a large deep skillet or pot, heat olive oil on medium heat.
• Add in onions and cook until tender.
• Stir in garlic and cook until fragrant.
• Add chicken broth, red pepper flakes and smoked turkey.
• Bring to a boil and reduce heat.
• Cover and boil lightly for about 20-30 minutes.
• Remove turkey leg and let cool.
• Remove meat from bone and cut into bite-size pieces.
• Return meat and skin back to the pot.
• Simmer for 10 minutes.
• Add collard greens to pot, pushing them down if needed.
• When greens begin to wilt down, cover and simmer for up to 60 minutes or until your desired texture is reached, stirring occasionally.
• Add salt and pepper if desired.
• Plate the greens and pour on a few drops of hot sauce.
• Serve hot.

BEST EVER COLLARD GREENS

Steps:

• Heat broth.
• Add remaining ingredients.
• If there is not enough broth to cover greens, add more.
• Bring to a boil, then reduce heat& simmer for about 3 hours.
• Remove bay leaves.

THE BEST SOUL FOOD STYLE COLLARD GREENS

Steps:

• Place the bacon ends in a pot, and place the pot over medium heat.
• Brown the bacon then add in the diced onions, and cook until the onions start to sweat.
• Add in the minced garlic,then cook for 1 minutes.
• Pour in the chicken broth, and turn the heat up to high and let boil for 20 minutes.
• Pour in the 2 cups of water, and turn the heat down to medium.
• Start adding in the collard greens into the pot.
• Once all of the greens are in the pot, sprinkle in the seasoning salt and ground black pepper.
• Add in the sliced jalapeno, and the vinegar and stir the ingredients.
• Cover the pot, and let simmer for 1 hour and 10 minutes over medium heat. Be sure to peak in and stir periodically.
• Enjoy!

SOUL CAFE'S COLLARD GREENS

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a large pot. Add onions and cook over medium-low heat until caramelized. Add vinegars and water and bring to a slow boil. Add collard greens. Simmer until tender.
• Add vegetable base, cayenne and sugar. Continue to simmer until flavors are absorbed by greens. Serve hot.

BLACK FOLKS SOUL FOOD COLLARD GREENS RECIPE

Steps:

• Clean the collard greens and cut off the stems.
• Then roughly chop the leaves in half through the midline and then into bite-sized pieces.
• Open the Instant Pot lid and add the wet ingredients (chicken stock, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, honey, and hot sauce to the stainless-steel inner pot.
• Next, add the onion, tomatoes, garlic, Old Bay or Cajun seasoning, red pepper flakes, salt, pepper, and stir to combine the ingredients.
• Finally, add the collard greens, followed by the cooked turkey leg.
• Press down to sink the greens as much as you can into the liquid broth.
• Close the Instant Pot lid (make sure the valve is up - in the position for sealing) and pressure cook on high for 15 minutes.
• When the cooking time is finished, allow a natural pressure release for at least 15 minutes.
• To open the Instant Pot lid, move the valve to 'venting' and manually release any remaining pressure, if applicable.
• Serve Black folks' soul food collard greens right away and enjoy!

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.

COLLARD GREENS AND CABBAGE

Steps:

• Add the bacon fat to a large stock pot.
• If you don't save your bacon fat, fry up a few slices of bacon in the pot you are going to cook your greens in; leave the bacon and fat.
• Add your ham hocks to the pot, cover with water, onion and spices.
• Boil for about an hour.
• Add cleaned and cut collards to the pot, cover and cook until tender (45 minutes to an hour, less if you like them less cooked).
• Add the cabbage at the very end and cook until wilted or to your desired taste.
• Remove bones and fat of the ham hocks.