How in the heck do you cook them?!?! I have tried 2 times and they just taste sooo gross I cant even eat them! I love spinach, cabbage and pretty much every veggie out there but I dont know what to do with "greens" PLEASE HELP!
Anonymous
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First off make SURE they are washed 3 or 4 times. Chop and boil. Pour off first and second water (that you boil twice in). Add water and about 1 tsp. sugar along with ever how much salt you like. I like to add ham and some bacon grease. Cook till tender.
blue eyed babe
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Collard Greens
ranebo1000
I start by rendering some bacon til crisp, then removing the meat. Wash and shred the greens in 1/2 strips. Sautee some onions and garlic til soft in the bacon drippings. Pile the greens strips in the drippings, add a splash of white wine or chicken broth, cover and let steam for no more than 5 minutes. Add a pinch of salt, fresh pepper, and the crumbled bacon and serve.
Mustard greens are the most bitter; you might want to avoid them, or use about 1/3 mustard to 2/3 of the others.
zotdirector
Usually where most people go wrong with greens is over cooking. The specific nutrients found in leafy greens can break down when over cooked becoming toxic and noxious sulfur compounds that smell like rotten eggs
The recipes on this page address this problem are are very good, coming from someone who is not a fan of greens.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/good-eats/field-of-greens/index.html
bearklinget
wash well. remove stem,layer leaves, roll, and slice. cook 6 slices of bacon, cut into 1/2' pieces. add greens to bacon and drippins with 1T of sugar, 1/2T red pepper flakes, about 2C water. a ham hock if it's available. cook for about an hour. serve with chopped onion, plenty of fresh ground black pepper, covered with apple cider vinegar (this should sit awhile, like make it before you start the greens. also, i would combine mustard and collard greens. about 1 bunch of each.