Smoked Turkey Braised Greens Recipe Courtesy Rachael Ray Food

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.

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.

GREENS ON GREENS

Steps:

• Place the arugula, lemon zest and juice, pine nuts, salt and pepper, to taste, and the garlic in the bowl of a food processor and pulse to grind. Let 'er rip and add the extra-virgin olive oil in a slow steady stream. Once all the oil is in, add the cheese and pulse to combine. Arrange the radicchio and romaine in a salad bowl, top with dressing and toss to combine.

BRINED SMOKED TURKEY

Steps:

• Mix salt, brown sugar, vegetable stock, apple cider vinegar, pickling spice, onion, carrot, peppercorns and bay leaves in a stockpot and bring to a boil until sugar and salt is well dissolved. Remove from heat and cool. In large pot or ice chest, add stockpot mixture to ice and cold water. Submerge turkey. Brine for 4 to 6 hours.
• Remove turkey from brine and dry well. Combine Worcestershire sauce and kitchen bouquet browning sauce together and brush on skin of turkey. Rub salt, pepper and paprika onto turkey skin. Stuff inside of turkey with orange quarters and tie legs together.
• Smoke turkey in smoker set to 250 degrees for about 7 hours. Checking internal temperature to be 170 degrees. Remove and let rest for 45 minutes.

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.

SAUTEED HAKUREI TURNIPS AND BRAISED GREENS

Steps:

• Cut the greens from the turnips. Wash and tear all the greens into large pieces and remove the stems. Cut the turnips into bite sized pieces.
• Heat 1 teaspoon of oil in a sauté pan over medium-high heat. Sautee the turnips stirring or tossing occasionally until they are crispy outside and tender inside. Season with salt and pepper and remove to a warm plate.
• In the same pan, heat the remaining oil over medium heat.
• Add the washed and wet greens, and add to pan in batches. Stir and mix as they wilt.
• Add the wine or other liquid and cook until it is mostly evaporated.
• Plate greens and arrange the warm turnips on top.