Turkey soup..what are your favorites?

Boring, potatoes, carrots, peas, green beans, onions, salt, and I'm a big fan of dill.

big bottle of red wine.

For turkey soup, I usually keep it simple: egg noodles, carrots, celery, salt & pepper to taste, maybe a little thyme or sage, depending on how the carcass was seasoned during roasting (taste the broth and finished soup before seasoning, especially when using a carcass that was presumably seasoned during roasting).

Occasionally I make something called Armenian chicken and lentil soup that I cut out of the newspaper years ago, which was adopted from "The Chicken Soup Book" by Janet Hazen. I think you could substitute turkey, although it calls for 2 cups of shredded poultry, and I don't know if you'll get that much since you said "not much meat." But there's no reason you couldn't use less meat.

Saute a diced onion, 3 cloves garlic, 1 1/2 Tbsp sesame seeds, and 2 tsp. each of cumin and paprika in 3 Tbsp olive oil in dutch oven or large heavy-bottomed sauce pan over moderate heat.

Add 1 cup dried red lentils (rinsed and sorted), 9 cups chicken (or turkey) stock, and 1/2 cup small-diced dried apricots. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and cook until the lentils are tender (theoretically 40 to 50 minutes, but I try to check frequently after 20 minutes). Add the shredded poultry and 3 Tbsp lemon juice. Cook another five minute. Salt and pepper to taste.


I've changed some of the amounts from the original (and can't read all of the original amounts under my writing). The original also called for adding 2 tsp. ground coriander, which I don't do -- I'm not sure why -- probably because I didn't have any the first time I made it. I think it would taste good.

When I make turkey soup, I love to make handmade egg noodles to add to it. Yum!

Turkey chili. Yummy!!!!

Rice, egg noodles, onion, celery, carrots, darks turkey meat, Better than Bullion roasted chicken.

Love this one. Take it off the burner after 20mon or so, you have soup. Leave it simmer for and hour+, and you have chili! I use homemade seasoning mix instead of the package.

https://www.skinnytaste.com/turkey-chili-taco-soup/

Does turkey potpie count? Perhaps as a stew? Made the Cooks Illustrated one for chicken post-Thanksgiving after making stock from the carcass of a Shelton's bird (OMFG, so good vs. chicken stock, even from a stewing hen) + leftover dark/light meat. The dough sucked to make but it was overall awesome.

ETA: This recipe, but with an all-butter dough vs. shortening since had no good pig leaf fat available to sub in lard instead => https://thecontrarianmom.com/2011/10/31/chicken-pot-pie-cooks-illustrated/ (No endorsement of this particular website, just happened to have a reprinting of the CI recipe which is behind a membership paywall)