Southern Style Kale Greens.
You can cook Southern Style Kale Greens using 5 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Southern Style Kale Greens
- Prepare 1 bag of kale.
- Prepare 2 of smoked pork hocks.
- You need 2 1/2 cups of water.
- Prepare Handful of real bacon bits.
- It's of Seasonings (garlic powder, salt).
Southern Style Kale Greens instructions
- 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!!!!.