Collard Green Wontons

Name: Collard Green Wontons
Yield: serves 35
Ingredients: 1/4 pound meat (ham hocks, smoked turkey wings, or smoked neck bones); 1/2 tablespoon House Seasoning (see page 325); 1/2 tablespoon seasoned salt (see page 180); 1/2 tablespoon Texas Pete Hot Sauce (or your favorite brand); 1/2 large bunch collard greens; 4 tablespoons butter; 32 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature; 70 to 80 wonton wrappers

December 14, 2011

Well, here we go again. Leave it to me to dress up a collard green! I put these bad boys inside a beautifully browned blanket, and lo and behold, it was the number one hand-passed appetizer at our reception. Who would have ever thought that collard greens and cream cheese could taste so good!

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