Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Award-winning 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 special dish, slow cooked collard greens. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Slow Cooked Collard Greens is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Slow Cooked Collard Greens is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to 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. Make ready 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. Take 1 onion, sliced
4. Make ready 2 garlic cloves, smashed
5. Prepare 2 bay leaves
6. Take 10 oz bacon, chopped
7. Take 2 quarts chicken broth, warm
8. Get 2 tablespoons cider vinegar
9. Prepare 1 teaspoon sugar
10. Take Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper

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.

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