How do I cook collard greens?

Question

do i have to put them in boiling water first? if yes how long? and then sauttee with olive oil and garlic?
i thought i could skip the first step.

Answer 1

you are talking about 2 different ways to cook greens...are you looking to sautee them or cook them in a pot with hocks??

either way here are the directions for both:


float greens in a sink full of cold water (deep enough that the greens float and sand can settle to the bottom of the sink.)
remove the greens from the sink then drain the sink.
allow greens to dry (or you dry them using a towel or salad spinner (I use the salad spinner)).
remove stem from the green ...with collards that means all the way up the leaf cut out the stem (not good to eat woody and nasty). Roll up the greens a few leaves at a time and Julienne (cut into thin strips).

For boiled greens:
place smoked hocks (or smoked turkey) in about 6 cups of water bring to a boil and then simmer for 2-3 hours (add chunked sweet onion for extra flavor)
remove hocks from water and add greens and meat from hocks and simmer about 40 minutes (until tender but not mush). Serve straight from w ater

For sauteed greens:

get a large pan (roasting pan works great)
heat pan and add olive oil and minced garlic (you can use bacon grease in place of olive oil) add greens and lightly salt(draws out the moisture from the greens) keep moving around the pan the greens will wilt and get a lot smaller once all greens have wilted and most of the water is gone form the pan they are ready to serve.


Good Luck Greens are GREAT

Answer 2

Been cooking them for years.

Carefully clean and inspect the leaves for bugs.Set aside.
Dice about 8-10 ounces of country ham and brown in lard or bacon grease. (Don't let the lard or bacon grease scare you. This is what you need to get the real country flavor out of the collards)

Saute 1/2 - 3/4 cup of diced onions (you don't need garlic) in butter and 1 cup of chicken or beef broth, salt, and pepper to taste. Make sure you salt them before you cook them; this helps enhance the flavor. Incidentally, collards stink when you cook them, like cabbage, only stronger.

Put the collards in a large pot, and put the ham bits and the onions and broth over them. Cook the greens down in the mixture for about 20-30 minutes, stirring occasionally - the broth won't cover all the collards. You need a full (over-full)
pot of greens; they will cook down.

Drain off the broth. Heat a fry pan (cast Iron preferrably) with 1/4 cup lard or bacon grease.; fry the collards for about five minutes. Serve hot ! Good with anything country (Pintos and boiled potatoes and corn bread).

Answer 3

Best Ever Collard Greens

2 quarts chicken broth
2 bay leaves
1 diced onion
2 smoked ham hocks (or shanks)
4-6 bunches collard greens (or other greens)
salt & pepper

Heat broth.
Add remaining ingredients.
If there is not enough broth to cover greens, add more.
Bring to a boil, then reduce heat& simmer for about 3 hours.
Remove bay leaves.

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Answer 4

just rinse each one seperately to remove any dirt or grit, then shake a bit and set aside..
saute up your onion, or garlic and if you like you can add a bit of meat, sausage, ham, turkey, whatever, it tastes good if it has a bit of a smoke flavor in the meat..
and then when the onion and garlic is tender and meat is cooked, toss in 2 bundles of washed greens (any green can do, like swiss chard, mustard greens, spinach or collard greens) and 4 cups of broth( or just water) and boil for 10minutes.. (mmm! I love spinach myself)

Answer 5

Big pan water boilin, add greens then add olive oil and butter till soft! put off water mixture add salt and pepper. continue cookin to dry out a little then add Heavy cream and stir in maybe a 1/2 cup then plate with freash corn or onions cooked too...

Answer 6

Yum sounds good..I LOVE collard greens with ham hocks...but please wash them carefully and throughly. Nothing worse than taking that first bite and hearing sand crunching, ruins the whole batch. It happend to me the first time I tried to cook them.

Answer 7

what kind of collard greens? theres many recipes hun goto ............ http://www.chitterlings.com/collards.html