Boiling vegetables is the least nutritious and most tasteless method of cooking them. Steam them or better yet, roast them.
Same with rice. Rice boiled in too much water is soggy and tasteless.
In this case you could steam the veggies and cook/steam the rice at te same time. Just wash the rice, put 1.5 cups of cold water per cup of rice in the pot. Put a steamer tray on top, lid closed. Bring to a boil, let boil for 10-15 min and turn of heat. Let stand for additional 10-15 min. Now you have nice flavourful dry rice and flavourful crunchy veggies.
Anybody have a good way to prepare collard greens? I've had them frozen in my freezer for months now.
I would make it a stir fry, with some other veggies, herbs/spices and chicken or pork. Perhaps some carrots, sweet pepper, hot pepper, fresh ginger, garlic, spring onion, cubed chicken and a bit of soy sauce. Or add cubes of lean pork and curry powder, and some fresh green apple pieces.