My Southern Black Eyed Peas with Collard Greens
My Southern Black Eyed Peas with Collard Greens

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To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook my southern black eyed peas with collard greens using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make My Southern Black Eyed Peas with Collard Greens:
  1. Make ready 14 oz cooked organic black eyed peas
  2. Prepare 1 tbsp olive oil
  3. Make ready 4 cloves galric minced
  4. Get 1 medium yellow onion, chopped
  5. Take 1 tsp salt
  6. Get 1 tbsp brown sugar
  7. Get 1 bay leaf
  8. Make ready 1 tbsp red wine vinegar
  9. Make ready 1/2 cup water
  10. Take 2 strips applewood smoked bacon or 1 tbsp olive oil for vegan
  11. Take 1 large bunch collard greens chopped into strips (about 5 cups.)
Steps to make My Southern Black Eyed Peas with Collard Greens:
  1. In a large pot with a lid, heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil over medium heat. Add the garlic, salt and bay leaf and stir for 3 minutes. Take bay leaf out.
  2. Add the chopped collard greens, vinegar and water and stir. It's possible that all of your greens wont fit in the pot, so add a few handfuls at a time as they wilt.
  3. Then add the peas. Cover and simmer for about 30 minutes, checking occasionally and adding more water as necessary.
  4. In a separate pan, cook the bacon over medium high heat until crispy. Remove the bacon and reserve for another use and add the onions to the pan. (I used bacon bits this time.) Came out delicious.
  5. Cook the onions in the bacon grease for about 5 minutes or until just translucent. If you used bacon bits just throw the bacon bits and onion in the pot with the greens.
  6. When the greens are cooked to your liking add the brown sugar, stir until combined and serve.

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