Two Festive Crockpot Turkey Soup Recipes

Turkey is a great ingredient to use in soup recipes and if you fancy a change from chicken soup, why not give this alternative meat a try? Poultry recipes are traditional over the festive period and if you have some left over, making broth is a wonderful way to use it up. This meat combines well with all kinds of flavorings, seasonings and vegetables and you can thicken a soup with rice, barley, noodles, potatoes, or another kind of starch.

The first recipe is for soup made from scratch, with a homemade stock. Making your own stock means the resulting soup recipe is going to be extra fresh tasting and homemade stock contains much more nutrition than commercially prepared bouillon cubes too.

Fresh And Tasty Turkey Soup Recipe

What You Need For The Stock:

Wings and carcass of a cooked turkey
3 quarts water
2 bay leaves
2 roughly chopped carrots
2 stalks celery with leaves
Salt and black pepper
1/2 teaspoon each parsley and basil

What You Need For The Soup:

8 cups turkey stock
1 chopped onion
2 chopped carrots
2 chopped stalks celery
10 oz can stewed tomatoes
2 cups cubed turkey
2 bay leaves
1 drained can green beans
2 peeled, diced potatoes
1 drained can corn
1/2 lb elbow pasta
1 drained can peas
Salt and black pepper

How To Make It:

First, take the meat off the carcass of the bird and refrigerate it. Break the carcass into pieces and add it to a four quart slow cooker along with the rest of the stock ingredients. Cook for twenty four hours on low. Strain the broth and chill it overnight in a clean bowl in the refrigerator. Discard the bones and vegetables. Skim the fat off the top the next day.

Add eight cups of the stock to the slow cooker with the onion, carrots, celery, tomatoes, bay leaves, and potatoes and cook for eight to ten hours on low. Add the pasta, peas, and beans and corn an hour before serving and season to taste with salt and black pepper. Serve hot with warm bread for dunking.

Tempting Turkey Rice Soup With Bacon

What You Need:

4 cups turkey or chicken broth
1/2 cup chopped celery
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup diced carrots
4 slices diced bacon
2 cups diced cooked turkey
1/2 cup frozen corn kernels
1/4 cup rice
2 cans diced tomatoes
Pinch of salt

How To Make It:

Add the broth, bacon, celery, carrots, rice, onion, and a little salt to a crockpot. Add the cans of tomatoes without draining them. Bear in mind that you might not need the salt if you are using a commercial broth, so taste the mixture first.

Cook the broth on low for six or seven hours, then stir in the diced meat and corn kernels and cook for an hour more. Serve with warm bread for dunking. This recipe makes a great lunch or supper. Alternatively, you can serve it in smaller portions as an appetizer.

Source: http://food-soups.chailit.com/two-festive-crockpot-turkey-soup-recipes.html

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