Simple Tips For Cooking Collard Greens

Quick Tips For Cooking Collard Greens

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

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

Next include the kale and cover it with chicken stock, including red pepper flakes and seasoning. Simmer for about 45 minutes or less, up until the greens are tender. If you want to prepare the greens quickly, slice them into medium-sized pieces and add olive oil to a frying pan. When it's hot add the ingredients you plan using. You can include sliced garlic and red pepper flakes to spice up the rather dull taste of the collard greens. Include 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 dish. Use chicken stock and seasoning to improve the tastes. It's best to prepare this dish overnight. Take care when getting rid of the ham hocks as you do not wish to leave any slivers of bone in the greens. Then stir them. Let the hocks cool before attempting to manage them. You need to get rid of all the fat from the hocks and of course, remove the bone from each hock.

Put the meat back into the slow cooker and include the greens, stirring them so that the meat and vegetables are combined well. You might want to reheat the mix before serving this traditional Southern-style meal.

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

These green leaves are very healthy, consisting of, as they do vitamins K, A, E and B complicated ones. As for minerals they have iron, manganese, and calcium, to name just a couple of. Why not cook some and offer yourself a healthy treat?

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