Slow Cooked Collard Greens
Slow Cooked Collard Greens

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, slow cooked collard greens. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Place collard greens into a large pot and cover with salted water; bring to a boil. Prepare this easy Slow Cooker Collard Greens recipe for a delicious side. These collards have a smoky ham flavor and a great broth!

Slow Cooked Collard Greens is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Slow Cooked Collard Greens is something which I have loved my entire life.

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

During the holidays my husband knows that I will make a batch (or two) of these Crockpot Collard Greens. This southern classic dish is made so much easier with the help of a crockpot. Come back to tender greens and some tasty potlikker to spoon over grits with shrimp or cornbread, or serve beside our easy Chicken Gumbo recipe. What to buy: Collard greens are often cooked with.

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.

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 advance and refrigerate in the slow cooker insert (if you have room!). Remove the stems from the collard greens, then stack the leaves on top of each other and roughly chop. Add the collard greens to a slow cooker with the onion, ham hocks, brown sugar, pepper, salt, apple cider vinegar, and chicken broth. I've been making collard greens at home on my own for a few years and when I made them for our New Years dinner this past holiday, I decided that I needed to go ahead and photograph them for the site.

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