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Cooked Field Greens
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Collard, mustard, turnip, beet, spinach, kale or a mixture.
Servings: 8
Servings: 8
Ingredients
- Apx 3 pounds of greens well washed and rinsed
- ½ pound, bacon, salt pork or ham hock
- 1 cup of water or chicken broth
- 1 small onion
- 2 cloves garlic
- ¼ tsp red pepper flakes
- Salt if needed
Steps
- In a Dutch oven, Render the meat if needed. Bacon needs to be cooked until most of the fat is rendered. Drain the excess fat and save a little in the bottom of the pot.
- If you’re using a ham hock, pull it after about a half hour and cool enough to handle. Then cut it into small pieces and put it back into the pot.
- Cook onion and garlic along with the rendered bacon on low heat until onion is soft.
- Add broth and pepper and bring to a boil.
- Add greens and push them down as they start to soften.
- Reduce to simmer for about an hour.
- Cook until then are the way you like them being carful not to let them burn.
- Add extra water if needed.
Notes
- Original recipe by Mike Scott