Best Smoked Turkey Braised Greens Recipe Courtesy Rachael Ray Recipes

SMOKED TURKEY BAKED CHIMICHANGAS

Steps:

• Preheat your toaster oven to 400 degrees F or high.
• Place turkey in a bowl and season with chili powder. Add shredded cabbage, chipotles in adobo, tomato sauce, scallions. Toss filling to combine and season with salt and pepper. Place tortillas in a kitchen towel and set in microwave. Microwave on high for 1 minute. To build, place a generous handful of cheese near one edge of the tortilla. Pile 1/4 of your filling in the tortilla. Tuck sides up and roll tortilla tightly. Repeat to make 4 large stuffed tortilla wraps. Brush the toaster oven baking tray with vegetable or olive oil. Brush the wraps with oil and bake until deep golden all over, 15 to 17 minutes. Top with sour cream, cilantro or parsley and chopped orange or yellow tomato, as garnishes.

BRAISED MUSTARD GREENS

Steps:

• In a large skillet over medium high heat brown bacon and render its fat. Add chopped greens to the pan in batches and turn until they wilt, then add more greens. When all of the greens are in the pan, add vinegar and cook a minute. Season greens with sugar and salt. Add chicken broth to the pan and cover. Reduce heat to medium low and simmer greens 15 to 20 minutes then serve.

BRAISED RADISHES

Steps:

• Place radishes in a skillet with stock, butter bits, shallots, sugar, vinegar, salt and pepper. Cover the pan and bring to a boil. Uncover the pan and reduce heat to medium. Cook radishes 10 to 12 minutes and if the stock has not cooked away, remove radishes and cook down to 1/2 cup, about 2 minutes.

SMOKED TURKEY BRAISED GREENS (RECIPE COURTESY RACHAEL RAY)

Steps:

• Difficulty: Easy.
• Heat a large skillet over medium high heat.
• Add extra-virgin olive oil and butter.
• When butter melts into extra-virgin olive
• oil, add smoked turkey and caramelize meat, a couple of minutes on each side.
• Add onions and cook 3 to 4 minutes more. Wilt greens into the pan and season with salt and pepper.
• Cook and toss the greens a minute or 2 more then add the vinegar - lean back so the fumes don't knock you out - sugar and hot sauce.
• Cook off vinegar for a minute then add beer or stock, enough to coat the pan and loosen up greens in liquid.
• Reduce heat to medium low.
• Simmer greens 10 to 15 minutes until no longer bitter.

TURKEY CORN CHILI

Steps:

• Heat a deep pot over medium high heat. Work close to the stove for your chopping. Add oil to your pot, 1 turn of the pan, and add vegetables as you chop them.
• Add bay leaf and cook vegetables 5 minutes, stirring frequently, reducing heat if veggies start to stick. Stir in diced turkey meat and season with chili powder, cumin, and cayenne sauce. Season with a little salt, to taste. Add corn, tomatoes, and broth. Combine your chili well, adjust seasonings, reduce heat to medium low, and simmer for 7 to 10 minutes. Garnish chili with chopped scallions.

SMOKED TURKEY

Steps:

• Set up an outdoor grill for indirect grilling, placing a large foil drip pan in center. (If using a smoker, light and set it up according to manufacturer's instructions and heat to 275 degrees. In a smoker, you will need to cook bird longer, 3 1/2 to 4 1/2 hours.)
• Drain bird. Blot dry inside and out and truss if desired. Place in center of grill grate, over drip pan and between mounds of natural lump charcoal. Toss 1/2 cup of soaked wood chops on each mound of coals. Place lid on grill. Adjust vents to keep temperature between 325 and 350 degrees.
• Grill turkey until darkly browned and cooked through, 2 1/2 to 3 hours. Baste turkey with melted butter after first hour and every hour thereafter. If skin starts to brown too much, loosely tent bird with foil. Use an instant-read thermometer to test for doneness; turkey is ready when internal temperature of the thigh is 180 degrees. Replenish charcoal every hour, adding 8 to 10 lumps of charcoal to each mound of coals and leaving grill uncovered for a few minutes to allow charcoal to light. After 1 hour, add 1 1/2 cups of soaked wood chips.
• Transfer turkey to a platter, loosely tent with foil, and let rest for 10 minutes before carving. Reserve any drippings in drip pan for gravy.

TURKEY BRIE CRANBERRY BITES ( RACHAEL RAY)

Steps:

• Preheat broiler.
• Arrange crackers on broiler pan.
• Mix sauce with zest and scallions.
• Dot crackers with sauce and top with folded turkey and Brie.
• Place under broiler to melt Brie.
• serve warm.

SMOKED BRAISED MIXED GREENS

Steps:

• Heat a large pot over medium-high heat.
• Add the bacon and render until you have enough fat to saute the garlic and onions.
• Add the garlic and onions and saute until soft, about 5 minutes.
• Add the pinch red pepper flakes and season with salt and pepper and cook for 1 minute more.
• Add the greens in handfuls, adding more as the greens start to wilt, tossing with tongs until all the greens are wilted down.
• Add the chicken stock and cover.
• Cook until the greens are tender, about 10 minutes.