Classic Southern Collard Greens With Wild Boar Bacon

These authentic southern style collard greens are one of my favorite ways to eat my vegetables. The tender greens cooked in flavorful bison bone broth are the perfect match for our delicious wild boar bacon, a favorite for its complex and delicious flavor. Whether you choose to use our best selling wild boar bacon or our new applewood smoked duck bacon this is going to be a side that you make again and again. Even people who think they don’t like to eat vegetables will love these.

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Why I Love Cooking With Bone Broth

Feel free to substitute the bison bone broth for chicken broth or whatever else you have on hand. Personally, I prefer the bison broth because it has such rich flavor. Bone broth will add a wonderful thickness and substance to anything you cook with it. It’s full of nutrients, chock full of collagen and bursting with rich flavor. If you have it available, I highly recommend cooking with it any chance you get! We offer bags of bones specifically selected to create the tastiest and most nourishing bone broth.

A Delicious & Sustainable Choice

Our Southwestern wild boar roam the forests, foraging their natural diet. They love to eat berries, nuts, roots and tubers which give their meat its unique and delectable flavor profile. They’re trapped under the supervision of specialized veterinarians and butchered by a small scale, species specific facility. Just like all of our products, we care about where this meat comes from.

Wild boar are actually an invasive species to North America, and their population continues to grow. They ruin crops and disrupt the growth of endangered plants in forests by digging in the soil. When we eat humanely trapped wild boar meat it helps to protect our food supply and forest ecosystems.

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Once You Go Wild Boar, You’ll Never Go Back

People are always asking us about the best ways to eat wild boar. If you’re used to eating pork, the nutty and delicious flavor of wild boar meat will blow your mind. It’s so much more flavorful and satisfying than conventional pork. Customers tell us all the time that they find themselves unable to go back to eating conventional pork after trying out this meat.

In addition to the unbeatable flavor, wild boar meat offers a multitude of health benefits that blow pork out of the water. It’s lower in total fat and calories while offering more omega 3 fatty acids, vitamins and minerals. We are big believers in the advantages of eating wild meat and the nutritional profile of wild boar is a perfect example of this.

Ingredients:

• 2 pounds collard greens
• 6-8 slices of wild boar bacon
• 1 large sweet vidalia onion, chopped
• 5 cups bison bone broth
• 1 cup sun dried tomatoes, chopped
• 4 cloves garlic, finely minced
• ¼ teaspoon sea salt
• ¼ teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes

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Instructions:

1. Chop the collard greens, removing and discarding any particularly thick stems. Set aside.
2. In a Dutch oven or a thick bottomed pot, sauté the chopped bacon. After 2-3 minutes, add in the chopped vidalia onion. Cook until the onion is softened and fragrant and the bacon is cooked through and crispy. Add the chopped collard greens to the pot. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the greens are just wilted.
3. Pour the bone broth into the pot. Add in the sun dried tomatoes, minced garlic, sea salt and red pepper. Stir to combine.
4. Bring the pot to a boil, then reduce heat, cover and simmer. Cook for approximately 45 minutes or until the collard greens are tender. Serve immediately and enjoy.

Our Friendly Team Is Here To Support You

At Beck & Bulow, we pride ourselves on our excellent customer service. We’re always here to help if you have any questions regarding your meat, want help making selections, or are just looking for some cooking tips. Every time you call our office, you’ll be directly connected with one of our team members right here in Santa Fe, New Mexico where we’re based.

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Every cut of meat is pressure sealed and flash frozen immediately after butchering at the peak of freshness. We work exclusively with master butchers who make every cut with care and precision. All orders are hand packed at our Santa Fe warehouse, shipped in a reusable cooler with dry ice and delivered straight to your doorstep. Check out our selections of humanely raised chicken, elk, bison, beef, lamb, wild boar and seafood.