Hi, are you going to modify the kernel? or the kernel configuration?
If that so, you may create another recipe as you say and make appends to kernel config, or create and add your patch in the list of patches and modify the existing recipe to incorporate your patch.
If you only want to include your dts, you can modify the recipe to include your dts instead or add it yourself when copying the files in the SD card along with the uImage.
What you need to do depends on how you want to do it.
Regards
-- Allan Granados