Side Items

Mean Greens is for Dinner.

Mean Greens takes several minutes to prepare.

Mean Greens takes several minutes to cook.

Mean Greens makes 20 servings.

The ingredients for Mean Greens are:

3 bags prewashed Collards [about 8 cups]
2 bag prewashed Turnip Greens [about 5 cups]
1 bag Mustard Greens [about 3 cups]
1 yellow onion chopped
1 clove garlic finely chopped
1 tsp cayene pepper or 1 chopped jalapeno pepper
1 tsp sea salt
.5 cup olive oil
5 smoked turkey necks
10 cups chicken broth

Here is how you make Mean Greens:

**In large stew pot or soup pot place enough water in the pot to cover the turkey necks. Let simmer until the meat falls off the bone. [about 2.5 hours]. **Add greens [about 1 cup each of the greens] olive oil, onion, garlic, cayene pepper, and salt **Add enough chicken broth to cover greens** let this simmer on low flame [about 1/2 hour] then add more greens and chicken broth to cover. let cook again till the greens cook down again, repeat untill all the greens are gone. **If on your last addition of greens you do not have enough liquid to cover the greens, add about 1 cup of water or chicken broth. Greens are done when they are all a forest green color. Serving Size:?makes 20 1 cup servings (this recipe feeds 5)

The nutritional information for Mean Greens is:

• Servings Per Recipe: 20
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 115.1

• Total Fat: 5.7 g
• Cholesterol: 46.4 mg
• Sodium: 454.9 mg
• Total Carbs: 3.5 g
• Dietary Fiber: 1.6 g
• Protein: 12.6 g