Collard Greens Recipe

                        Simply Delicious Collard Greens Recipe 

This adjustment of advancing collard greens absolutely illustrates how abundant you can do with them and how you can brace them with a array of added foods including ham, pork, bacon, pork chops, and in abounding cases added vegetables. I adulation collard greens with beginning antique tomatoes or chow chow (green amazon relish).
You will acquisition that collard greens accept leaves that are somewhat thicker than bill which agency they are absurd for getting acrimonious up and cooked. Traditionally, these greens are eaten on New Year's Day, calm with black-eyed peas and cornbread. The accepted allegory is that if you eat this meal on New Year's Day, again you will become affluent in the advancing year, as some humans anticipate that the leaves attending like bankrupt up money. Cornbread can be acclimated to absorb up the aperitive borsch fabricated by this recipe. The borsch is aswell referred to as "pot liquor."
Collard Greens Compound Ingredients:
1 1/2 tablespoon of olive oil or Canola oil (stay abroad from application peanut oil, due to its hardly stronger flavor)
1 tablespoon adulate
1/2 of a ample white or craven onion cautiously chopped
1 teaspoon of red pepper flakes or 1/2 teaspoon of hot booze like Tabasco
2 cloves of garlic, bald and cautiously minced
1 batter collard greens, washed, agilely broiled in towels (paper or cloth) and chopped to the admeasurement of your liking. I like to leave my collard blooming leaves in big pieces back the greens will become and attending abate anyhow already cooked. However, added people, like my brother, adopt their leaves cut up agnate to romaine bill leaves.
3 cups of vegetable or craven banal
2 accomplished tomatoes, chopped (seeded, too if you don't like the seeds)
Salt and afresh arena atramentous pepper to aftertaste
Directions: Calefaction the oil and the adulate in a ample saute pan over abstinent calefaction until both are broiled together, active occasionally to ensure that the adulate doesn't burn. Saute the onions in the pan until they are hardly softened, about 2 minutes, again add the red pepper flakes and garlic. If you are affable with hot booze instead of pepper flakes, do not put the hot booze in the pan at this stage. Instead, delay until the banal is added to the pan after on and again add the hot booze at that point.
Keep active the garlic and onions with a board beanery and watch them anxiously so as to ensure that the garlic does not about-face amber and burn. If it does, again it is best to alpha over, because the that appears to smell and acknowledgment of burnt garlic are overwhelming.
Add the collard greens and baker addition minute. Pour in the vegetable banal and hot booze (optional), awning and simmer. Continue alive the capacity of the pan until the collard greens are tender, which should yield about 40 minutes. As a final step, add in the tomatoes and division with alkali and afresh arena atramentous pepper to taste. I achievement you adulation this collard greens compound as abundant as my ancestors does!