| Level: | Easy |
| Total: | 7 hr 50 min |
| Prep: | 20 min |
| Cook: | 7 hr 30 min |
| Yield: | 4-6 servings |
Ingredients
- 2 Granny Smith apples, diced (with skin)
- 3 cloves garlic, smashed
- 4 sprigs thyme
- 8 large sprigs parsley
- 1 tablespoon pickling spice
- 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 4 -to-5-pound smoked picnic ham (pork shoulder)
- 1 pound medium turnips, peeled and cut into 2-inch pieces
- 2 cups dry white wine
- 1 pound frozen chopped winter greens (such as turnip greens, kale or spinach), thawed
Instructions
- Put the apples, garlic, thyme, parsley, pickling spice and brown sugar in a 5-to-6-quart slow cooker. Add the ham and surround it with the turnips. Pour in the wine and 2 cups water. Cover and cook on low, 7 hours.
- Remove the ham from the slow cooker. Add the greens to the cooker and stir to combine with the liquid. Return the ham to the cooker, cover and cook on high 30 minutes.
- Slice the ham and serve with the turnips, apples and greens.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 657 |
| Total Fat | 20 grams |
| Saturated Fat | 7 grams |
| Cholesterol | 185 milligrams |
| Sodium | 315 milligrams |
| Carbohydrates | 38 grams |
| Dietary Fiber | 7 grams |
| Protein | 59 grams |
Reviews
Great recipe. I threw in pork chops instead of ham. Turned out amazing! Will try again with ham.
Disgusting and expensive. Very disappointed in this recipe. 1 tablespoon of pickling spice and the whole thing just tastes like pickles. If I wanted pickles for dinner, I wouldn’t go through the time and expense of making this recipe. The ham was expensive and completely ruined by this recipe. I would consider making this again WITHOUT the pickling spice, but I wouldn’t really know what else to use instead, so I probably won’t. As is, I do NOT recommend this. Unless you really really love pickles.
This tastes excellent. I add a couple of carrots, just because we like the flavor of carrots cooked with meat. I’ve added rutabagas, too. Usually I need to add a second bag of greens when re-heating the leftovers which are just as good the second time! Serve this with some crusty bread and you’ve got a terrific meal. I’ve made this several times .
What a nice winter meal.I used frozen chopped kale for my greens and served it with homemade mashed potatoes. Yummers. With the leftovers I put them in a soup pot, added the leftover potatoes and broke up the turnip with my immersion blender. It makes a wonderful soup. Once the soup was a bit thick so added some vegetable stock to thin. Definately a keeper.
What a wonderful, authentic-tasting winter soul food recipe! I used half a 10 lb. smoked ham, Italian parsley and a few extra turnips, but otherwise followed the recipe. It made the whole house smell good and the five of us loved it for our before-Thanksgiving meal. I assume Luci below knows little about cooking, since there is no salt in the recipe and a smoked picnic ham would not have been too salty. She either added salt or bought an old-style salted ham, but either way it was her mistake and her negative review should not turn anyone off of this recipe.
This turned out great. I did not use a smoked ham, used a fresh Smithfield ham, maybe that was the difference. I also added more diced apples (to make it sweeter) and finely diced the turnips instead of in 2-inch cubes. Not a huge turnip fan, so didn’t want to ‘chew’ on turnips. This is a great recipe for ‘sweet tooth’ people, like me. The apple and ham flavor really, really complimented each other in the final dish.
Absolutely awful! The liquid was so salty I could have had a stroke! After 7 hours, the turnips and apple completel loses their ‘character’. This was an expensive recipe (smoked ham and an expensive waste of good food.