Brazilian-style shredded greens

Couve à mineira

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Food and Cooking of Brazil

By Fernando Farah

Published 2011

  • About

Collard greens are a loose-leaf plant very similar to kale and spring greens, either of which you can use as a substitute, if necessary. Grown throughout Brazil, the leaves have a slightly bitter taste and are excellent with any rich meat dish.

Ingredients

  • about 20 large leaves of spring greens (collards)
  • 45 ml/3 tbsp

Method

1 Carefully wash each leaf and cut off most of the thick part of the stalk.

2 Stack five or six leaves on top of each other and roll tightly. Cut into very thin slices across the roll to make narrow strips of greens - the finer the better.