Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, southern style kale greens. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Southern Style Kale Greens is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Southern Style Kale Greens is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
She enjoys sharing yummy recipes from the south with readers. Easy Recipe for Southern-Style Kale Greens. As we all know, eating green leafy vegetables play an important role in keeping a healthy diet.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook southern style kale greens using 5 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Southern Style Kale Greens:
- Prepare 1 bag kale
- Make ready 2 smoked pork hocks
- Take 2 1/2 cups water
- Prepare Handful real bacon bits
- Get Seasonings (garlic powder, salt)
Blanching the greens before adding to the slow cooker helps remove the natural bitterness. I usually make it with kale and beet greens but other greens. Kale and collard greens make a flavorful team in this stir-fry dish. This tasty and healthy side dish combines collard greens and kale and includes olive oil, garlic, salt, black pepper, and lemon juice to season it and give it that tang.
Steps to make Southern Style Kale Greens:
- Add one ham hock then add bag of kale and top with another ham hock with some garlic pepper and lightly salt (pork is salty)..pour 2 and a half cups of water and bring to a simmer over high heat (will be a few minutes )
- Once hear sizzling stir and reduce heat cover on a low setting for 2 hours stirring occasionally .. (If liquid dries up add little more not big deal just needs moisture and to be covered to cook evenly)
- Once kale has darkened green in color (I even like to let cook until hocks start to tenderize )…It will be approximately atleast 2 hrs if cooked on a very low simmer … Once looks like this you are done!( They will resemble collards)
- Can be cooked and left for few hrs if put on lowest heat setting and covered or all day in crockpot
- Great as side or all by itself!!!!
Usually when I'm requested to share a southern greens recipe, It's for collards, turnips, or mustard greens. However, lately a lot of my readers have been asking me if I had a southern style kale recipe. Since it's still peak greens season, we've picked some of our favorite Southern-style, no-recipe required ways to use kale that brings it back down home. You won't find any green juices or dehydrated, nutritional yeast-dusted kale chips here, but perhaps a few more practical ideas on how to enjoy America's most polarizing vegetable. Kale greens are cooked Southern-style with a smoked ham hock.
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