This Southern collard greens recipes is slow-simmered with ham hocks just like mama used to make.
Ingredients
- medium sweet onions: 2 piece (chopped)
- smoked ham hocks: 2 piece
- garlic: 4 clove (chopped)
- containers chicken broth: 3 piece (32 ounce)
- collard greens: 3 packages (1 pound packages, trimmed)
- apple cider vinegar: 0.33333 cup
- white sugar: 2 Tbsp
- ½ teaspoons salt: 1 piece (to taste)
- ground black pepper: 0.75 tsp (to taste)
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Stages of cooking
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Gather all ingredients. Dotdash Meredith Food Studios
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Combine onions, ham hocks, and garlic in a stockpot; add chicken broth. Cook mixture over medium heat until meat is falling off the bone, 1 to 2 hours. Dotdash Meredith Food Studios
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Stir collard greens, vinegar, sugar, salt, and pepper into the broth mixture; cook until greens have reached desired tenderness, about 2 more hours. Dotdash Meredith Food Studios
