How to cook Kale, Collard, Mustard, or Turnip Greens

This is an easy but super-delicious recipe for cooking greens. This recipe is great for any kind of hearty greens like collard, turnip, mustard, or kale (my favorite). This is my favorite recipe for cooking greens because it utilizes the slow-stewing method traditional in southern cooking, but it's updated with some new and interesting flavors. And even though these greens take 3 hours to cook, prep time is minimal. Just throw everything in a pot, and forget it.

Here's a recap of the recipe:
1 bag greens
1/2 onion, chopped
1 carrot, chopped
1 stalk celery, chopped
2 cloves garlic
1&1/2 cups chicken stock
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
1/4 tsp freshly grated nutmeg

Add ingredients to a pot. Cover and simmer on low for about 3 hours. Remove from heat and stir in 2 Tbsp sweet pickle relish. Enjoy!

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Education

Tags:

• southern
• cooking
• recipe
• collard
• mustard
• turnip
• greens
• kale

[moondancerfarm]

I was rolling my eyes at this recipe when my husband found it. What do I know, just the ham hock way of cooking greens, but these are excellent and so healthy! It took an hour to cook. I like it without the relish and nutmeg. My husband likes it with the relish added. Thank you for this great recipe!

[sims2rmylife]

Yea I actually tried this with a bit of everything (kale, collard, mustard greens) and it took only about an hour to be done. By the way the relish actually did make it taste oddly quite good!

[OZRIC1985]

Three hours is a bit much. I cooked a huge pot loaded to the top with kale, collard greens, and turnip greens, and it took under an hour to cook on medium heat. It was totally tender and done too.

[tbursee]

three hours? Are'nt you cooking out the nutrician?

[bayoubabe111]

I made this today, took almost four hours. It is as described, very delicious and cooks down quite well. I think perhaps I had my fire on TOO low for the first three hours, bumped it up a wee bit (still on low) and cooked it down for another hour. I tasted it before I added the relish, it was sorta bland. What difference the Sweet relish makes !!. I made some cornbread and served this dish over it.

This dish was VERY EASY to make. I suggest anyone trying to cook mustard greens try this