Easiest Way to Make Any-night-of-the-week Southern collard greens

Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, southern collard greens. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Southern collard greens is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Southern collard greens is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have southern collard greens using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Southern collard greens:

1. Take 5 strips hickory smoked bacon, cut in big cubes
2. Prepare 2 lb bag of pre-washed collard greens
3. Get 1/4 cup sugar
4. Get Pinch red pepper flakes
5. Take 2 tbsp white vinegar
6. Get 3 tbsp salt… add more to your taste
7. Take 3 tbsp black pepper
8. Get Splash olive oil at the end

Steps to make Southern collard greens:

1. Sit greens in sink filled with cold water to rinse off any dirt.
2. Cut each strip if bacon into 4 pieces. Cook in Dutch oven pot until crispy. Remove bacon and add greens. Fill pot with water until just covering the greens.
3. Cover pot. After about 30 mins add salt, sugar, pepper and let boil, covered for an hour. Continue to stir about every 30 minutes until finished. Add pinch of red pepper at end. Add salt/ sugar and pepper to your liking.
4. Add cooked bacon back into pot. Traditionally many used “fatback” instead of bacon for deeper flavor OR you may used smoked turkey wing or smoked turkey neck!
5. Enjoy with sweet cornbread with a tad bit of hot sauce and vinegar

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