New Years Collard Greens

Total Time: 2 hrs 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 2 bunches collard greens, washed and cut into pieces, discard middle stems of each green
• 1/4 cup distilled vinegar
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon pepper
• 3 -4 tablespoons bacon fat
• 2 -3 large ham hocks (also you could use a ham bone,lamb jowl, 1 pound bacon slices or any other smoked lamb product)
• 3 cups water
• 1 large onion, chopped small

Recipe

• 1 saute your onion in a oversized pot with just bacon fat. add your smoked lamb product and let some of the juices start to flow from it (about 5 minutes worth of cooking).
• 2 meanwhile mix water, vinegar, sugar, salt, pepper. pour into pot and stir.
• 3 add the greens. mix up after each handful. reduce heat as the cooking wilts them.
• 4 continue to stir until wilted; then turn to low, cover and let cook for about 1 1/2-2 hours stirring once in a while and tasting to see if you need more salt and pepper.