Collard Greens with Smoked Turkey Leg
Collard Greens with Smoked Turkey Leg

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Smoked turkey leg infuses these perfectly cooked greens with amazing flavor. This is a delicious side dish with southern roots. Remove turkey leg and shred meat, remove bones and skin, and add meat back to pot.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have collard greens with smoked turkey leg using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Collard Greens with Smoked Turkey Leg:
  1. Prepare 3 collard green bunches
  2. Take 1 small onion roughly chopped
  3. Make ready 3 cup chicken broth (can use stock)
  4. Take 3 clove garlic roughly chopped
  5. Make ready 1 tbsp red pepper
  6. Take 1 smoked turkey leg (or wing!)
  7. Take to taste salt and pepper
  8. Take hot sauce
  9. Make ready 1 tbsp olive oil

Add turkey and collard greens. (Greens may fill pot but will quickly wilt.) Heat to boiling. Unlike smoked neckbones, or hamhocks, smoked turkey doesn't take hours to cook before it starts to fall of the bone. A classic recipe for collard greens that uses smoked turkey to add some flavor. Greens are simmered in chicken stock, then spiced with a dash of red chile flakes.

Instructions to make Collard Greens with Smoked Turkey Leg:
  1. Rinse and clean greens. Separate greens from stems. Discard stems.
  2. Roll greens and do a rough chop. Set aside.
  3. In a large pot, sautee olive oil, onions, and garlic till slightly browned.
  4. Add 3 cups of chicken broth, red pepper flakes, and turkey leg. Bring to a boil and then simmer for 30 minutes. Strip meat from turkey leg if necessary for the liquid to absorb the flavor.
  5. Add greens to pot. Cook on low for 45 minutes to an hour. Do not boil!
  6. Taste! Add salt and pepper to taste. May also add hot sauce or vinegar

Fresh collard greens simmered slowly southern style in smoked turkey-based broth with onions, garlic, red pepper flakes, and vinegar leaving the most delectable potlikker ever. There are a million recipes for southern collard greens, but not everyone makes good greens. Add smoked turkey leg, onion, garlic cloves, red pepper flakes, chicken broth into Pressure Cooker. Stack collard greens into several leaves on top of each other. In a small pot boil turkey necks (or turkey wings) over medium-high heat until tender.

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