Let's Make Turkey Necks *with pics*

They are great in gumbos, red beans, smothered snap beans, & I like to brown them & make a brown gravy with them.

It's interesting that the interweb has tons of recipes using smoked turkey necks, but there's very little as to how to actually smoke necks.

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I'm leaning toward browning them, taking them out and adding mirepoix and garlic to the dutch oven, softening those then adding back the necks and stock to braise them for a few hours. 

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This is what I do except I use trinity instead of mirepoix. Your plan doesn't sound bad at all. If you have a crockpot you can cook them in there as well.

I like mine with a side of corn bread and some black eyed peas or field peas served over rice.

Looks tasty, except for the lawn clippings.

I'm one who can never have enough cilantro or garlic.

I would get into those as long as I had about 5 yards of floss waiting for me when I finished.

I see them smoked and unsmoked at the more urban grocery store I sometimes visit for meat shopping. I saw a lady digging through the regular ones one day, and I pointed out that the smoked ones were on the other side. She said, "Oh. no, baby. I'm gonna cook these."

I had only considered using the smoked ones to flavor greens or such. That lady got me digging for recipes. I still have not tried cooking any, but I found a John Folse recipe for Smothered Turkey Necks in Onion Gravy that looks good. LINK

Then there's always this.

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