Tender collard greens, with slow cooked falling off the bone tender ham hocks…
It’s no secret that I love greens. I have many green recipes available here on my blog. I’ve use many smoked meats to season the greens. I’ve shared my smoked turkey and collard, and even a recipe with salt pork. This is actually my first time sharing my greens and ham hocks recipe.
I love ham hocks, but I don’t like cooking them the traditional way which os on the stove top, because that takes too long. I personally like my ham hocks to be extremely tender. Over the years, I’ve been using my CrockPot to cook my ham hocks. Using a slow cooker for ham hocks, is a fool proof method. You simply can not mess up! As long as you have ham hocks, water, and a slow cooker- you will be fine! The ham hocks ALWAYS come out tender, and they form a broth in the slow cooker. You can reserve the broth for the greens instead of using an additional broth!
Check out my recipe below!
Collard Greens With Smoked Ham Hocks
Ingredients
- 3 lbs collard greens cut and cleaned
- 2 large ham hocks
- 1 medium sized yellow onion chopped
- 2 tbsp jalapeno peppers sliced
- 6-8 cups water
- 2 tsp seasoning salt
- 1 tbsp garlic powder
Instructions
- Place the two ham hocks into the slow cooker, and pour in the water. Cook the ham hocks in the slow cooker on HIGH for 4 hours.
- After the ham hocks are cooked, transfer them AND the liquid from the slow cooker to a large pot.
- Place the large pot on the stove top and turn the heat to medium high.
- Add in the onions and jalapeno peppers, then stir.
- Turn the heat down to medium, then start to add in you greens.
- Cook the greens over medium heat for 40 minutes or until they get to your tender preference.
- Serve.
Rosie is this part of your soulfood sunday?
I have submitted my e-mail address several times but never get any of your recipes unless I go to your web site. Would like to be notified of new recipes at my e-mail . I have tried several of your recipes from your web page and they are really good.
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I Love your recipes
I’m definitely going to try this….but just wondering if I could just add the collards to the crackpot instead of switching to a pot??
Certainly! I actually have a crockpot collard greens recipe uploaded
Where is the recipe?
I fixed it. It’s there now.
Thanks!!
Hi,
For this recipe, I would like to know how many servings is this or how many people can you expect to feed?
It should be enough for 6-8
Hey Rosie, luv your recipes!!! Would like to know if I could also use chicken or beef broth to this recipe? Let me know. Thank you
Yes, you can use either. XOXO