turkey soup??

I second broth! Its my favourite thing to do with chicken leftovers, turkey, or now-trying it with the goose stock I made overnight in the SC (with half the carcass-the other half was boiled on the hob, and got about 4l stock over all!)
I sweat leeks, carrots celery and onion (actually now I steam/sweat them with no oil) then add stock(if REALLY jelly like I usually mix with water, and freeze half), pearl barley or soup mix (barley today ) and simmer until cooked. Is VERY filling and very warming, complete comfort food!
Its my memory of Boxing day at home, my mum always made broth (in NI you could buy soup veg-which were all ready prepped and came with a small tub of soup mix, soup celery is a special thing which I cannot seem to get anywhere else "soup veg soup" was even featured on Rick Stein's food heroes!)
I LOVE it, sometimes add bits of meat to it, sometimes don't, my OH prefers it with it in, so tend to add it now, but never used to.
yum yum yum

Hi BrokeBrunette,

I make turkey broth in the same way as I make chicken broth:

Strip all the meat from the carcass.
Put the bones into a roasting tin and brown in a hot oven or under the grill (this really adds to the flavour)
Put the browned bones in a pan and cover with water and bring to the boil then reduce the heat and simmer for at least four hours.
Strain the stock then add soup mix or make your own mix of barley, split peas and lentils. Sometimes I add a couple of stock cubes for extra flavour at this stage but it's not usually necessary with turkey stock which is stronger than chicken.
Simmer until the pulses are soft then add black pepper, chopped carrots, leeks, celery and parsley.
Once all the veg are cooked serve with warm crusty bread. Pics of how I make it here

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Sorry if this recipe is in another thread somewhere. And I thought OS was a more appropriate place than Christmas moneysaving.

Long long before I discovered this website (before it existed) and I started on chicken carcuss soup, my old Granny would always make Turkey soup the day after boxing day, I would really like to do this, does anyone have any recipes??? Thanks in advance:T

Thanks Penny that's great - 3 posts down was a link to Delia's Turkey Soup

Wish me luck x

hotcookie101 wrote: »

I second broth! Its my favourite thing to do with chicken leftovers, turkey, or now-trying it with the goose stock I made overnight in the SC (with half the carcass-the other half was boiled on the hob, and got about 4l stock over all!)
I sweat leeks, carrots celery and onion (actually now I steam/sweat them with no oil) then add stock(if REALLY jelly like I usually mix with water, and freeze half), pearl barley or soup mix (barley today ) and simmer until cooked. Is VERY filling and very warming, complete comfort food!
Its my memory of Boxing day at home, my mum always made broth (in NI you could buy soup veg-which were all ready prepped and came with a small tub of soup mix, soup celery is a special thing which I cannot seem to get anywhere else "soup veg soup" was even featured on Rick Stein's food heroes!)
I LOVE it, sometimes add bits of meat to it, sometimes don't, my OH prefers it with it in, so tend to add it now, but never used to.
yum yum yum

I am so glad you mentioned this!! I have spent 7 years in England confused as to why my soup never tastes like my mum's!! And anytime I mention it she is like what's the problem just go to a butcher and get a soup bone and soup veg. I really want some soup veg now