The Ultimate Guide to Cooking the Best Collard Greens 

The Best Collard Greens (What’s your favorite Thanksgiving Side?) • Ingredients - 2 Bundles of Collard Greens 1 Whole Onion (Sliced) 6 Cloves Garlic 6-8 Cups Water 1 Tbsp Better than Bouillon 3 Small Turkey Legs or 1 Big One (Smoked) 2 Tbsp Apple Cider 1 Tsp Onion Powder 1 Tsp Garlic Powder 1 Tbsp Creole Seasoning Pinch of Sugar (Optional)

I swear, you have to be the only cooking channel where I actually really want to make these foods. Keep up the good work!

Everyone has a recipe got cooking greens. Just don’t dump in a pot of water and bring to a boil😂. I cook my smoked turkey parts in a crockpot, with onions garlic chicken broth and brown sugar. No vinegar for 2 hrs and then add greens. Never have any left. Cook greens for another hr on high or until tender. Mouth watering. Holidays in a black family, isn’t the same without some greens any kind and cornbread. Teach the kids to cook them it’s totally traditional. 💯‼️♥️

I keep my stems and chop them up small…I was told that’s where all the nutrients are

Boy…that side dish can be a WHOLE meal…looking good….👍🏾

Yo I never get tired of those greens! Happy holidays bro!

My mouth is watering

They’re totally good for you just gotta know how to cook them. Mustard turnips kale cabbage, are all good for you. You can add turnip roots to turnips and mustard. I’ve cooked collards with rutabagas and mixed collards and cabbage. Just got to learn to cook them and your family will thank you for it.

Snoop would be proud of the start

Delicious dish

Love collard greens!

I like searing the turkey necks or tails with the onions. Remove the meat, then add the stock. Add the meat back in and slow cook until falling off the bone. Remove meat and pick tge bones clean. Add the stock to the greens and then the meat back in. This ensures no bones in the greens.

❤ delicious 🤤🤤 thank you!😊

Yummm ❤ I love collard greens but never dare make them . I think I can try ❤

This is the first collards recipe that I want to try for myself. Looks great. I eat them any time I can find them!!

Looks deliciously good HALLELUJAH AND AMEN

Great recipe! 😊

Looks delicious

Dang, wonderful! Looks delicious. 💯

Trappey’s…..period! 😤💪🏽

That looks amazing!

Looks delicious! I'll try it!

Thank you sharing

I’m so impressed 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

Thank you this was fire for Xmas!!

Very good ❤❤❤

That’s how I make mine

Gtrat recipe. And yes peppers at the end is very delicious.

Great recipe 👌 😊❤✌️

Looks good

Yesssssssssssssss sir looks delicious ❤😊

Great recipe..I cook mines for 30 mins i like a little crunch to it.

Like, the steams

Man this recipe is🔥!

Great job bro

Straight🔥

I do mine a bit differently. To start, I don't use collards until they've had a good frost on em, they need the cold, it makes the plant change some of the starches in it into sugars, gives a better taste. Sounds weird, but it's real. Taking the central stem out is good, they're bitter, but you can go further and take out the biggest branches from that stem too. I usually will just go through and pull the good bits out from in between all the stems, it's a lot of work but makes a big difference in the end product getting all that bitter out of it. With that done, you don't need so many dried up seasonings dumped in there to try to cover up the bitterness you already removed. Bouillon is good, have mostly used cubes in the past but I have used better than bouillon for a few things and had good results as well. Throw in some bacon grease, a ham hock or whatever meaty goodness you want really, turkey leg should be good too. If you want more salt maybe throw some fatback in there. Cornbread is a must as you said, around new years we usually pair it with some black eyed peas too. Side note about your cornbread: if you've never tried it, make you some one day with some actual corn thrown into the batter before it goes into the oven. Don't need anything fancy, just some store bought can corn or mexicorn or whatever is fine. Can mix it in, or spread it on top. See what you think, maybe youll want to include it the next time you're cooking for a crowd.

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Yum

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Ohh Yeah Imma. make These Tomorrow For My Family, Do YOU Have Any Turkey Wing Recipes?

I came for a chicken recipe, stayed cause you are too funny. But you can cook fam! Subbed!

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The stems have all the nutrition

Eh! Them peppers be on point! I actually add like 4 to 5 and hopefully i can find them later. Cuz ooo wee i don had some folks find them the hard way. Lol

Try cooking collard greens kashmiri way... with lamb meat... called maaz haakh.

Delish!

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Yep that’s how I do it. That’s exactly how I cook it.

I can taste those greens lol

What song in the background playing

That’s what I’m talking about dude!!

Apple cider vinegar can be overbearing. I found that out this past Thanksgiving.

Tastes kind of like kimchi

Cook that broth for 45 min to a hour on low then add collard, but grandma said cook it on low overnight then add collards

"Like a blunt"😂

Looks good, but man if you don’t add a bit of sugar in that of greens. I've never made greens without sugar. 😕

So it takes about an hour for the collard greens to be completely done on low heat?

Yes the pich of sugar

Question: doesn’t overcooking greens lose nutrients. In East Africa we dont overcook to conserve nutrients. Wanna hear from different sides of the world. Thanks

I've never had collard greens ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Looks smackin' though

Damn

Y-U-M!!!

Pepper sauce? No tabasco? Tell me you’re not from the South…😂 Looks good though!💪🏾 Slide your index and thumb down the stem to remove the leaf, save a lot of time.

HMM...nice winter food. WHAT! People still eat the dark meat?😮 WARMS the Cockles of my heart. HEARTY, hot, & wholesome.

Boil the smoked turkey or ham hocks first. Remove them and trim the lean meat away from the bones, fat, skin, and ligaments. Return the meat to the broth, then add the greens. No muss, no fuss with the final product. Just have at it, man.

and break and rub ya greens together when washing them, makes them tender. MS in dis bih

Wow, only 1 hour for the Turkey leg and meat falls off? I would cook leg for 1 hr and then add greens for another 1 hour. Or 1.5 and .5 for the reader who likes his greens with a bite.

Yo

Obviously the Turkey legs are cooked, just brown them? Or Cook them all the way through?

You didn’t say how long to cook them?

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These new era cooks telling us retro Black folks how to cook collards. Lord sit em down!😮.

all you have to is fold dem greens in half with the stem in the middle and just pull the stem out mane. MS in dis bih

Too much water. I use chicken broth. The greens make water.

Why does everyone use turkey? Where’s the fatback?!?!?

Fun fact: these colored greens are named after my favorite Eminem song

I'm sorry the sugar part I don't understand

Two bundles? 😅

You’re doing too much, my guy. The smoked turkey does all the work for you.

Being from the American south myself I came here to try to figure out what it is that makes people go nuts about collard greens!? I mean…yes, they are good and all of that but I have seen people go completely 🦍💩 every time! they see them? Why!?

You don't have to.

My greens always take HOURS to cook why is this ? If I waited only an hour they would be raw.

You don't have to add water to greens😂😂

You wasting the best part of the grease by throwing those stems away all the flavors in those dim the where all the flavor are in those greens and you're wasting the biggest part from stims

Yankees put sugar on collards..

Why is his face in the bowl??? 😬😵🤢

The fact that collard greens take so much extra effort to taste good is a good indication maybe we need to stop eating them xD

Ngl that look nasty..

Not turkey legs. Smoked turkey legs.

You can keep that OVERATED smoke turkey pure garbage