Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, slow cooked collard greens. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. 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. Tender, spicy, smoky collard greens simmering in a slow cooker are worth the wait.
Slow Cooked Collard Greens is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Slow Cooked Collard Greens is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have 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:
- Take (or bunches) of cleaned and chopped Collards or Turnip or Mustard Greens (or any combination of greens listed above)
- Prepare olive oil
- Get onion, sliced
- Prepare garlic cloves, smashed
- Make ready bay leaves
- Prepare bacon, chopped
- Make ready chicken broth, warm
- Get cider vinegar
- Make ready sugar
- Make ready 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. Tear the leaves into bite-sized pieces. Today I'm sharing my slow cooker vegan collard greens recipe that's quickly become one of the most popular recipes here on the blog.
Steps to make Slow Cooked Collard Greens:
- 2 BAGS OF CLEANED AND CHOPPED GREENS. (prefer Glory brand)
- 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.
- Add the onion, garlic. Cook until the onions are soft and starting to brown, about 8 to 10 minutes.
- Add the broth (scraping any brown bits from bottom of pot), vinegar, and sugar. Pack in the greens, pushing them down into the pot.
- Add Bay leaves.
- 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.
- Taste the "pot likkor" (broth) and check the seasoning, add salt and pepper.
- Cover and let cook for 15 more minutes or until tender.
- Remove the bay leaves and serve.
These healthy meatless collard greens are gluten free, dairy free (no butter), and suitable both for vegan and vegetarian diets. I like to think the slow cooker was invented by a Southern home cook. Collards can sit in there for hours on end, breaking down as they should, the liquid turning into pot likker, the residual elixir of greens cookery that is like culinary platinum in the South. Place the turkey meat in the bottom of a slow cooker. Add collard greens to saucepan a handful at a time, stirring until each addition is wilted before adding the next.
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