Are you wondering what to do with your left over turkey? Besides making gobblers (turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and gravy on nice crusty bread), you can make soup!
Left Over Turkey Soup
Ingredients
1) 4 cups of turkey broth - if you are like my mom, you kept the carcass and made broth on Thanksgiving
2) 2 tomatoes, diced
3) 3 carrots, sliced into 1/2 inch pieces
4) 3 celery stalks sliced into 1/2 inch pieces
5) 1 medium onion chopped into small pieces
6) 1/4 cup uncooked rice
7) 2 cups diced turkey
8) If you have other leftovers to get rid of such as corn, spinach etc. feel free to add it at the end as well.
Direction
1) Place broth, tomatoes, carrots, celery, onion and rice into crock pot.
2) Cover and cook on low for 6 hours
3) Place turkey and whatever other leftover veggies you have in the crock pot and cook on low for another hour.
ENJOY!!!
I boiled the carcass down on the turkey, and the broth came out really creamy looking.. like a watered down milk. Is this the color turkey broth is? I was expecting it to look like a chicken broth. Could it be bad? I am kinda afraid of using it!
ReplyDeleteWhat you made technically was Turkey stock, not broth. Stock has much better taste & is better for you. Stock is creamy because you are getting calcium & nutrients from the bones of the Turkey. :-)
DeleteIf you let it set you should see cloudy broth on top. But if you skim it off the top you should see the clearer stuff (broth). Use the clearer broth.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone know if quinoa would cook for the same amount of time as the rice? Or should I cook it separately and add it at the end?
ReplyDeleteThe fat makes it look cloudy but let it set in the frigid overnight, the fat rises to the top and you can skim it off with a spoon when you're ready to make soup!
ReplyDeleteLove how helpful everyone is. Thank you. Michelle, I would love to know about quinoa. If you try it, let me know!!!
ReplyDeleteWhy can't you add the turkey in with everything in the beginning?
ReplyDeleteThe Pinterest link does not work for this recipe??
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