Quick Cooked Greens with Penne and Prosciutto

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated January/February 1995

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 8

TIME 1 hour

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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