Hearty Turkey Vegetable Soup Recipes

HEARTY TURKEY VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven coated with cooking spray, cook turkey and onion over medium heat until meat is no longer pink; drain. Add zucchini and carrot; cook and stir 1 minute longer. Stir in the broth, pasta sauce, beans, tomatoes, parsley, oregano, pepper and hot pepper sauce., Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 45 minutes. Meanwhile, cook pasta according to package directions; drain. Just before serving, stir in pasta.

HEARTY TURKEY STEW WITH VEGETABLES

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a pot over medium heat. Place onions in the pot and cook until tender. Stir in celery and carrots, and cook until tender. Stir in the potatoes and flour. Pour in the chicken stock, and season soup with marjoram. Place turkey in the pot, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer 30 minutes.
• Mix the green bell pepper into the soup, and continue cooking 10 minutes, until pepper is tender.

HEARTY BARLEY TURKEY SOUP

Steps:

• Bring water and turkey carcass to a boil in a large pot; add 1 1/2 cup chopped onion, 3 stalks celery, 1/2 cup chopped carrot, peppercorns, 1 pinch thyme, and 1 bay leaf. Simmer, skimming excess fat and foam from top of stock as needed, 2 to 2 1/2 hours. Add more water to stock as it evaporates. Remove carcass from stock and cool. Pull meat from bones and shred; refrigerate until needed. Strain stock and return liquid to pot.
• Mix 1 1/2 pounds carrots, 2 onions, 6 stalks celery, barley, mushrooms, 2 bay leaves, salt, marjoram, black pepper, and 1 pinch thyme into turkey stock and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer soup, stirring occasionally, until barley is fully cooked, 1 hour and 20 minutes. Add turkey meat to the soup and simmer for 10 more minutes. Remove bay leaves before serving.

HEARTY TURKEY VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• Heat stock pot on medium heat and add the olive oil.
• Saute onions and garlic until just transparent -- 5 minutes.
• Add celery, cabbage and mushrooms cooking and stirring until soft -- 5 more minutes.
• Add potato, green beans, salt, pepper, rosemary and thyme.
• Pour in chicken stock and bring to a boil; then turn down to a simmer and cook for 45 minutes.
• Add macaroni, cover and cook for 15 minutes.
• Add butter beans, and turkey or chicken, cooking just until heated.
• Taste for seasoning and serve.

HEARTY TURKEY AND VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• For Broth.
• Melt butter in heavy Dutch oven over medium-high heat.
• Add turkey carcass and brown lightly, stirring occasionally, about 8 minutes.
• Add onion,carrot,celery, garlic,juniper berries and thyme.
• Cook until vehetables soften, stirring frequently, about 10 minutes.
• Add chicken broth,tomato,gravy and pan juices.
• Bring to boil, skimming surface.
• Reduce heat, cover partially and simmer 2 hours.
• Strain broth, remove as much meat from bones as possible and return broth and meat to clean pan.
• For Soup.
• Add potatoes and celery root to broth; boil gently until tender, about 20 minutes.
• Transfer vegetables to processor, using slotted spoon; puree until smooth.
• Add carrots to broth, cover partially and simmer 5 minutes.
• Whisk in potato-celery root puree; add turkey meat, celery and mushrooms.
• Cover partially and simmer 10 minutes.
• (Can be prepared 1 day ahead and refrigerated. Bring to simmer before continuing.).
• Mix in 2 tablespoons parsley and season to taste with salt and pepper.
• Ladle soup into bowls , sprinkle with remaining parsley and serve.

"HEART HEALTHY" TURKEY VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• In a large stock pot, bring the turkey stock to a boil.
• Add the carrots, celery, onion, garlic and the 1/2 cup white wine.
• Add the kosher salt, pepper, thyme and summer savory. Let this simmer over medium heat.
• Add both frozen mixed vegetables to the pot. Continue to let the soup simmer.
• Add the chopped parsley.
• Dice all the turkey (or chicken) meat in to half inch cubes.
• Toss the meat in a bowl with the seasoning salt and the olive oil.
• Heat a non stick skillet over high heat.
• Cook the meat in small batches. We're just looking for a good sear and some color, not it to be completely cooked.
• As the meat gets browned, dump it in the soup.
• When all the meat is browned, de-glaze the pan with the 1/4 cup white wine. Scrape all the bits off the pan and pour everything into the pot.
• Let the soup simmer over a medium low heat until the meat is cooked completely and all the vegetables are tender.
• Just before service add the basil chiffonade.
• I like to add a spoonful of fat free sour cream to my bowl. I find it adds a little extra richness and cuts some of the sweetness that comes from the veggies and the herbs.

TURKEY VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• In a large stockpot, combine the broth, potatoes, carrots, celery and onions. Bring to boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 30 minutes or until the vegetables are tender. , Add the corn, lima beans, turkey, chili powder, salt and pepper. Cover and simmer 10 minutes longer.

PRESSURE COOKER HEARTY TURKEY-VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• In pressure cooker, heat oil; sauté garlic 10 seconds.
• Add tomatoes, potatoes, carrots, onions, celery, mushrooms, thyme, rosemary, bay leaves and salt.
• Stand the 2 drumsticks, meaty side down, in the soup.
• Lock cooker lid in place and, over high heat, bring to high pressure.
• Adjust heat to maintain pressure and cook 12 minutes.
• Let the pressure drop naturally, or reduce pressure with a quick-release method.
• Remove lid, tilting it away from you to allow excess steam to escape.
• Remove drumsticks from soup; cut meat from bone.
• Cut the meat into 1-inch chunks; return it to the pot.
• Discard the bone, or reserve it for stock.
• Stir in the peas, corn and parsley; boil over medium heat until cooked, about 3 to 5 minutes.
• Add salt and pepper to taste.