Quick Cooked Greens with Garlic and Red Pepper Flakes

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated January/February 1995, America's Test Kitchen TV

For best results with assertive greens such as mustards, collards, turnips, and kale, give them a rough chop and a quick plunge into shallow boiling water before quick-cooking.

SERVES 4

TIME 45 minutes

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For our quick cooked greens recipe, we wanted to rid these greens of some of their bitterness, but not all of it. A shallow blanching removed enough bitterness to make these assertive greens palatable but not so much as to rob them of their...

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