Green Glaze Collards

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This is simply a condiment made from collard greens that tin beryllium eaten implicit rice; it is akin to dishes from Sierra Leone and Ethiopia.

Green Glaze is the oldest disposable assortment of collard grown successful North America. It has a large young, crisp, tender spirit and is mostly resistant to insect infestation successful the garden. It besides has beautiful, shiny leaves and doesn't crook dull erstwhile cooked. Food historiographer Michael Twitty likes to garnish it with edible flowers from his garden.

Green Glaze collards are disposable done respective effect houses, including Southern Exposure Seed Exchange. They turn good successful the summertime and autumn and tin beryllium started present for a autumn crop. The food capsicum is sold astatine immoderate section farmers markets, and a food capsicum blistery condiment is being developed by Whiskey Island Pirate Shop successful Baltimore (www.whiskeyisland.com).

Supermarket collards (usually Champion oregon Vates and kale mixed together) approximate the flavor, arsenic bash Georgia Southern oregon Creole collards sold astatine marketplace oregon grown successful the garden.

From nutrient historiographer Michael Twitty of Rockville.

Ingredients

6 tablespoons olive oil
1 ample reddish onion, chopped successful half, past into precise bladed slices
2 mean cloves garlic, chopped into bladed slices (may substitute ail scapes, chopped crosswise into bladed slices)
1 precise tiny blistery chili pepper, specified arsenic the Maryland food capsicum (may substitute a pinch of crushed reddish capsicum flakes; spot headnote)
1 1/3 cups homemade oregon store-bought low-sodium chickenhearted broth, preferably kosher
2 pounds Green Glaze collard greens oregon 1 lb of collards (preferably organic) and 1 lb of kale, washed, stripped from the stalk, rolled tightly and chopped crosswise into bladed strips (chiffonade; spot headnote)
1 mean reddish doorbell pepper, stemmed, seeded and chopped into bladed slices
1 mean yellowish doorbell pepper, stemmed, seeded and chopped into bladed slices
1 mean orangish doorbell pepper, stemmed, seeded and chopped into bladed slices
Kosher salt

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
160
Fat
11 g
Saturated Fat
2 g
Carbohydrates
14 g
Sodium
230 mg
Protein
4 g
Fiber
4 g
Sugar
3 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From nutrient historiographer Michael Twitty of Rockville.

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published September 7, 2010

Updated March 13, 2026