page_title: List of foods of the Southern United States
section_title: Vegetables and salads
hierarchical_section_title: List of foods of the Southern United States / Vegetables and salads
caption_attribution_description: Cornbread, collard greens, macaroni and cheese, fried chicken, yams, and sweet tea. Almost makes me weep for home. This is a place called Hollywood Inn, and I've been going there for about fifteen years. It's just about a block down from the WC Handy home.
context_page_description: This is a list of foods of the Southern United States. The cuisine of the Southern United States has many various dishes and foods.
context_section_description: Ambrosia
  Beans - often cooked down with chunks of ham, bacon grease, or onions
  Baked beans
  Butter or lima beans
  Green beans
  Pinto beans and cornbread
  Pole beans
  White or great northern beans
  Greens - seasoned with some kind of meat or meat grease. The liquid left after cooking is known as pot liquor.
  Collard greens
  Creasy greens
  Kale
  Mustard greens
  Poke salad - cooked pokeweed
  Turnip greens
  Carrots - often "candied" with butter and brown sugar
  Carrot raisin salad
  Congealed salad
  Corn
  Corn fritters
  Corn on the cob - boiled, steamed, or grilled; usually served with butter or mayonnaise
  Corn pudding
  Creamed corn
  Shoepeg corn
  Hoppin' John - a traditional Low Country dish of black-eyed peas served with rice
  Mashed potatoes - called "creamed" in some regions
  Rutmus - potatoes boiled and mashed with turnip bottoms and butter
  Okra - flour-battered and pan-fried or boiled, stewed, or steamed
  Onion - sliced Vidalia onion, whole green onion, and onion rings
  Peas - often cooked with chunks of ham or onions
  Black-eyed peas
  Crowder peas
  Field peas
  Purple hull peas
  Potato salad - usually made in the South with egg, mayonnaise, prepared mustard and pickle relish
  Ramp - wild leeks popular in the Appalachian mountains
  Red beans and rice - slow cooked, spicy kidney beans, served over white long grain rice, most often with a spicy sausage on top or incorporated
  Seven-layer salad
  Succotash
  Summer squash - dredged in a mixture of cornmeal and flour and fried crisp with a light to medium browning, or prepared en casserole, or made into pickles
  Swamp cabbage (heart of palm)
  Tomatoes - sliced ripe, also eaten at breakfast
  Fried green tomatoes
  Sweet potatoes - often "candied" with butter and brown sugar
  Tomato aspic
  Vidalia onion - a sweet onion grown only in the state of Georgia, sold and popular throughout the South
  Wilted lettuce - with dressing, an Appalachian speciality
caption: Collard greens (left), macaroni and cheese, fried chicken, yams and cornbread
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