Simple Tips For Cooking Collard Greens

Easy Tips For Cooking Collard Greens

Collard greens (Brassica oleracea) are loose-leaved like kale and spinach. You can consume them raw, although they are better when prepared.

Collard greens cook fairly quickly and are best sauteed in olive oil. However, if you are not a vegetarian, you can try preparing them with bacon for included taste. This is my favored way of preparing them. Just heat some oil in a fry pan and cook the chopped bacon initially, until it is crispy. Then remove it from the heat and collapse it before putting it back in the pan.

Next include the kale and cover it with chicken stock, adding red pepper flakes and flavoring. Simmer for about 45 minutes or less, up until the greens hurt. If you want to cook the greens quickly, slice them into medium-sized pieces and include olive oil to a frying pan. When it's hot include the active ingredients you mean using. You can include chopped garlic and red pepper flakes to enliven the rather bland taste of the collard greens. Add the greens to the pan and saute them for about 4 minutes, or until they are bright green.

If you have a sluggish cooker you can cook the greens with ham hocks for a southern-style meal. Use chicken stock and seasoning to improve the tastes. It's best to cook this meal overnight. Beware when removing the ham hocks as you don't want to leave any slivers of bone in the greens. Then stir them. Let the hocks cool before attempting to manage them. You need to eliminate all the fat from the hocks and obviously, get rid of the bone from each hock.

Put the meat back into the slow cooker and add the greens, stirring them so that the meat and vegetables are integrated well. You might want to reheat the mixture before serving this conventional Southern-style meal.

If you are vegetarian, stick to the garlic and red pepper flakes and, naturally the greens, but include chopped spring onions, and some other greens, such as kale, and turnip and mustard greens. These go extremely well together and some sliced tomatoes would also help to improve the flavor. To spice them up a little, you can include tamari, or the more normal soy sauce, smoked paprika (or hot paprika), and spices.

These green leaves are really nutritious, including, as they do vitamins K, A, E and B complicated ones. When it comes to minerals they have iron, manganese, and calcium, to name just a few. Why not prepare some and give yourself a healthy reward?

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