Soul Food Collard Greens
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“Southern, soul food collard greens with smoked turkey legs. Simmered with onions, garlic, red pepper flakes and smoked turkey for a robust, flavor!”
Watch me make these soul food collard greens from start to finish!
Ahhhhh southern style collard greens!!! Such a true tribute to my childhood! My grandmother made collard greens just about every Sunday! I’d walk through the house while pinching my nose saying “ewww collard greens again!!!” lol I actually did like collard greens as a kid but oh my how I LOVE them now!!!
Forget the main course, I’ll be perfectly happy with a bowl of tender, flavorful soul food collard greens any day!! Douse them bad boys, with some hot sauce or vinegar and lawd hammercy!!
These southern collard green are the bee’s knees I tell ya!!!! I’ve featured this recipe before on my blog and you guys love it! It was waaaay time I remade the video and refreshed the post.
If you’re looking for a truly southern and authentic collard greens recipe that uses smoked turkey instead of ham hocks….THIS.IS.IT!!
These fresh collard greens are simmered away in a rich chicken broth infused with flavors from fresh onions, garlic, red pepper flakes, and that smokey, salty turkey leg.
It’s these simple, non-fancy ingredients that produce some of the best collard greens I’ve ever had! I can wolf down several bowls
Get the Recipe: Soul Food Collard Greens
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 small white onion, finely diced
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 3 cups chicken broth
- 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 1 large smoked turkey leg, fully cooked
- 32 oz. collard greens, thoroughly washed and cut into strips.
- salt & pepper
- hot sauce
Instructions
- In a large deep skillet or pot, heat olive oil on medium heat.
- Add in onions and cook until tender.
- Stir in garlic and cook until fragrant.
- Add chicken broth, red pepper flakes and smoked turkey.
- Bring to a boil and reduce heat.
- Cover and boil lightly for about 20-30 minutes.
- Remove turkey leg and let cool.
- Remove meat from bone and cut into bite-size pieces.
- Return meat and skin back to the pot.
- Simmer for 10 minutes.
- Add collard greens to pot, pushing them down if needed.
- When greens begin to wilt down, cover and simmer for up to 60 minutes or until your desired texture is reached, stirring occasionally.
- Add salt and pepper if desired.
- Plate the greens and pour on a few drops of hot sauce.
- Serve hot.
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Can I replace smoked turkey with regular turkey ? Will there be a difference in taste?
Can I use smokes back bones in areas of Turkey?
Smoked neck bones instead of Turkey?
Hi, I am curious at approximately how many leaves 32 ounces of collard greens are? I’m making for a group of 18…Thanks!
P.S. I just love your videos
Hi Monique. I have the same question as Ms. Nisha above. Did you smoke the turkey leg yourself or did you purchase it yourself?
Did you smoke the turkey leg yourself? Or can you buy it already smoked? Thanks in advance, can’t wait to try this!
Hey Nisha,
You can definitely buy them already smoked from your neighborhood grocer. If they don’t have a smoked leg, smoked wings work well too. Cook them until they are falling off of the bone. I use my slow cooker over night for that part. It’s effortless to debone that way.
Nisha, the turkey legs were bought, smoked already. If she would have smoked them herself, she would have definitely showed us how to do that. I have been following & making her recipes for about 2 years now & have shared her website as well as social networking to others because I LOVE ” DIVAS CAN COOK by Monique” I can honestly say this is “one” of my favorites along with so many more!!
You can buy it smoked
Most grocery stores sell smoked turkey legs in the meat department.
They sell them already smoked in most grocery stores.
It was probably bought already smoked. I usely by my smoked turkey legs,wings, necks ect from Kroger. I’m sure just about most supermarkets sell them.
Thank you Crystal,
This was really helpful.
You can buy them already smoked.
A lot of stores sell the smoked turkey legs, necks, etc. you will find them usually by the chicken.
Have you tried the smoked turkey tails. Please do, received the information from a young lady. They are great in collards!.
Girl Yasssss! Thank you baby Jesus for a sister that actually “cooked” some greens; and I do mean collard greens like my mama make. You cook your greens like I do and with turkey instead of hammocks. If I see one more sister cook some braised collard greens I was about to jump off the top of a hand made southern chicken coupe. You did your thang and I am not hooked on your site. Cook on my sister. Oh, drop a peach cobbler recipe real soon.????????????????????????