The process on how to cook smoked turkey wings whether it be in the oven with pre-smoked wings or on the grill with fresh turkey wings is relatively easy. Smoked turkey wings have a ton of flavor, and the smoke adds to that flavor and aroma.
Turkey is pretty inexpensive especially around the holiday seasons. The method I prefer is getting fresh turkey wings and smoking them myself. When you smoke your own turkey you have so much more control over the outcome. The intensity of the smoke and the type of wood you use to smoke the turkey is all in your control. It is really fun to experiment with different smoking woods. If you are looking to smoke fresh turkey wings, follow my post on How to Smoke a Turkey. That post will guide you through exactly how to smoke your wings, and it even gives a simple recipe for a brine and rub.
Now, if you are not so adventurous and have some pre-smoked turkey wings you are looking to cook in the oven, I’m going to show you how to cook those up too. If you’ve purchased a pack of pre-smoked turkey wings from your grocery store, these are already cooked. All that you need to do is heat the wings up.
If you wanted to cook the smoked turkey wings in the oven, just heat the oven to 350F and place the turkey wings in there from approximately 15 – 20 minutes. This should be plenty of time to warm them up. Now turkey wings are great just eaten by themselves, otherwise you can add the meat to salads or a lot of people like to eat them with greens.
I recently wrote a post for making collard greens with smoked turkey necks, but with that recipe you can easily substitute in the turkey wings. Collard greens with turkey wings is an awesome smoked turkey wing recipe. It is a recipe well worth checking out, just swap out the turkey necks for the turkey wings.
If you are not sure which wood to use for smoking your turkey wings, check out these wood chips, they are my favorite for smoking turkey.