Collard Green Recipe With Bacon
1 Wash collard greens thoroughly.
Collard green recipe with bacon. Drain bacon on paper-towel lined plate. Place a large dutch oven over medium heat. All you really need to do to make Collard Greens more than just a glorified bowl of steamed spinach is to add onion bacon and a little bit of brown sugar to tie everything together.
Cook in heated skillet until browned and slightly crispy. Slice bacon into 14 inch pieces. Preheat skillet to medium heat.
Cook the bacon stirring occasionally until the bacon is crispy and the onions are translucent. Simmer until the greens are very tender. Its tradition to eat collard greens on New Years Day because their green color symbolizes wealth and prosperity for the coming year.
Place the greens in the pot along with chicken broth and seasonings. Remove from the heat and top with the lemon juice and the cooked bacon crumbles. In a deep heavy kettle cook bacon in 2 batches over moderate heat until crisp and transfer to paper towels to drain.
Coarsely chop collard greens and set aside. In a large stockpot over medium-high heat add the collard greens and add 6 cups of water. In this recipe chopped bacon is cooked until almost crisp and the drippings are used to sauté chopped onions which forms the.
Add onion and garlic to bacon drippings in pan. Crumble and set aside. 2 Cook bacon in 4-quart Dutch oven on medium heat until crisp on both sides.