Slow Cooked Collard Greens. Pack in the greens, pushing them down into the pot. Add the broth, vinegar, and sugar. Bring up to a boil turning the greens over occasionally with a wooden spoon as they wilt. Slow Cooked Collard Greens

You can cook Slow Cooked Collard Greens using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Slow Cooked Collard Greens
  1. It’s 2 bags of (or bunches) of cleaned and chopped Collards or Turnip or Mustard Greens (or any combination of greens listed above).
  2. You need 3 tablespoons of olive oil.
  3. Prepare 1 of onion, sliced.
  4. Prepare 2 of garlic cloves, smashed.
  5. Prepare 2 of bay leaves.
  6. It’s 10 oz of bacon, chopped.
  7. You need 2 quarts of chicken broth, warm.
  8. Prepare 2 tablespoons of cider vinegar.
  9. Prepare 1 teaspoon of sugar.
  10. Prepare of Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper.

Carefully remove ham hocks and all bits of bone before stirring greens after cooking. Cool ham hocks, and thoroughly remove all fat and bone; return meat to slow cooker. Add the collard greens to the slow cooker. Add the ham hocks or shanks on top of the greens.

Slow Cooked Collard Greens step by step

  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..

Add the cooked bacon, bacon drippings, brown sugar, chicken broth, apple cider vinegar, salt, pepper and red pepper flakes. Place the lid on the slow cooker. Cook bacon in a skillet until the fat renders and bacon becomes translucent. Place bacon, with its drippings, into the bottom of the crock pot. Add the greens, ham hock, salt, pepper, and water into crock pot.