Momma Smith's Southern Collard Greens

Name: Momma Smith's Southern Collard Greens
Total time: 4500 s
Yield: 4-6 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2-3 bunches collard greens; 6 pieces bacon chopped; 4 cloves garlic diced; 1/2 a white or yellow onion chopped; 3 C chicken or vegetable stock; 3 C white vinegar; 1 tsp salt; 1 tbs black pepper; 1 top cajun seasoning (optional); 1 shallot chopped (optional)

Joshua Dirks @ChefPNWxTX

Seattle, WA

These Southern Collard Greens go all the way back to South Texas, where I first learned the recipe from Avery's mother, one of my childhood best friends. Over the years, I’ve tweaked it, tested it, and made it my own, but the soul of the dish is still right where it started.

These greens are rich, tender, tangy, and unapologetically bold. The vinegar hits hard enough while cooking to make you question your life choices for a second, but once everything settles into the pot, it becomes exactly what great collards should be: deep, savory, sharp, comforting, and impossible to stop eating.

Joshua Dirks @ChefPNWxTX

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Ingredients

1 hr 15 mins

4-6 servings

2-3 bunchescollard greens
6 piecesbacon chopped
4 clovesgarlic diced
1/2a white or yellow onion chopped
3 Cchicken or vegetable stock
3 Cwhite vinegar
1 tspsalt
1 tbsblack pepper
1top cajun seasoning (optional)
1shallot chopped (optional)

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Steps

1 hr 15 mins

1

Thoroughly wash the greens and devein each leaf (cut out the big middle vein). Then cross-cut the leaf into 1-2 strips.
2

In a Dutch oven or deep boiling pot, fry up bacon till crisp. Add garlic, onion, and shallot during the last 5 minutes.
3

Add chicken/vegetable stock, white vinegar, seasonings, and prepped collard greens. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat.
4

Simmer collard greens for 40-45 minutes. You'll know when they're done when they are easy to eat but still chewy.
5

Highly recommend serving with Tabasco or other fermented hot sauce of choice. Add other vegetables, we've done smoked corn, okra, and diced potatoes. This is also a crowd pleaser the day after cold.