Southern
Vegetarian Collard Greens
Vegetarian Collard Greens is Southern home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the cooked vegetable. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 2 lb chopped collard greens
- 1 onion
- 3 garlic cloves
- 3 cups vegetable broth
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
- 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
How to cook it
- Heat the olive oil in a large pot and cook the onion and garlic until soft, about 5 minutes.
- Stir in the smoked paprika for a smoky, pork-free base, then add the chopped collard greens and vegetable broth.
- Cover and simmer until the greens are tender, about 35 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Stir in the vinegar and season with salt and pepper before serving.
Serve it with
A Southern dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Vegetarian Collard Greens, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Vegetarian Collard Greens carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Light
- Protein
- Low
- Food groups it covers
- Vegetables
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Vegetarian Collard Greens takes about 45 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. It is at its best in the fall and winter, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
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More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on collard greens, onion, and smoked paprika.
From the same kitchens
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Does the same job on the plate
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Cook this with your whole family
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