Southern

Vegetarian Collard Greens

Name: Vegetarian Collard Greens
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Southern
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

Loretta Mae @loretta_mae

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.

45 min Medium Diabetic friendly Low carb High fiber Vegetarian Vegan Halal Pescatarian Gluten free Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

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.

Watch how to cook Vegetarian Collard Greens

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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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.

The dish at the centre
- BBQ Chicken Drumsticks
  
  40 min
What it is eaten with
- Buttermilk Biscuits
  
  30 min

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.

Every tracked allergen in Vegetarian Collard Greens
Allergen	In this dish
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

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 100 kcal
Protein: 3 g
Carbs: 10 g
Fat: 5 g
Fiber: 4 g
Sugar: 2 g
Sodium: 310 mg
Saturated fat: 1 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

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.