
Why you should eat your collard greens?
Why you should eat your collard greens
- Health benefits. Collard greens contain many essential nutrients. ...
- Nutrition. Collard greens are a cruciferous vegetable. ...
- Dietary tips. Cook collard greens lightly or eat them raw in a salad. ...
- Risks. ...
How to prepare Collard Greens easily and quickly?
Prepping the collard greens
- Wash the collard greens As with any fresh veggie, washing your collards is the first step to cooking them. ...
- Trim off the stems Next, it’s time to trim your greens. ...
- Cut the leaves into strips
How to make delicious collard greens?
Instructions
- In a medium sized sauce pot over medium heat, add the cut up slices of bacon and allow those to cook till crispy. ...
- Add the onion and garlic and allow to cook till fragrant and softening (about 3 minutes).
- Pour in the drained can of collard greens, water, sugar, hot sauce and vinegar and stir well.
How to cook fresh collard greens without meat?
Instructions
- Using a slow cooker, turn on high, and add pre-washed / pre-sliced collards straight into the crock pot. ...
- Sprinkle Goya packets, Tony seasoning, sugar & salt all over the top of the collards.
- Add water to fill the crockpot. ...
- Cook on high for 8 hours.
- You will stir once or twice just to make sure all the collards are getting cooked evenly.

1. How to Sauté Collard Greens
While collard greens are traditionally cooked low and slow, this method is great for when you're short on time. Here's how:
2. How to Fry Collard Greens
A little bacon grease goes a long way. Frying collards with bacon and onions is an easy way to pack your greens with flavor. Here's how:
3. How to Cook Collard Greens in the Slow Cooker
If you have a little more time on your hands, a slow cooker provides the gentle braise that collards need for peak flavor and tenderness. Not to mention you can toss your ingredients in in the morning and come home to the fragrant (well, pungent) aroma of collard greens and ham hocks. Here's how:
4. How to Simmer Collard Greens
In this video, you’ll see how to make traditional Southern collard greens. The greens simmer with a smoked turkey drumstick in olive oil, garlic, and chicken stock. The drumstick gives the greens extra flavor. If you like your greens with a little kick, add crushed red pepper flakes at the end.
5. How to Blanch Collard Greens
While bacon and other meats are great for flavoring bitter greens, this blanching method offers a healthier alternative to the traditional methods. And it's so easy! Used chopped collards for a side dish, or use the whole leaf for wraps! Here's how:
A whole new way to think about (and cook) collard greens
Collard greens fall into a category of food that either needs to be cooked long and gentle or hot and fast in order to fully shine. So, if you have not really been able to embrace the classic braised style, let me introduce you to the cooking method I use most often: a hot and fast sauté.
Why to cook sauteed collard greens
Cooking greens in this way retains more of the satisfying chew of the leaves, with little pops of crunch where the stem cross-sections are, and will give you little bits of crispy here and there, like the edges of a great roasted brussels sprout.
How to cook sauteed collard greens
To prep for sauteed collard greens, clean the leaves well, then lay on top of each other and roll up into a long cigar shape with the stems poking out the bottom.
