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This Turkey Wild Rice Soup is the best use of leftover roast turkey ever! It’s warm, filling, and extra delicious.
Need ideas for all that leftover turkey?
Depending on the size of your turkey and the size of your guests, chances are you have a generous amount of the good stuff sitting in your fridge, waiting to be transformed into another scrumptious meal.
This soup recipe is earthy, hearty and downright delicious. The unexpected addition of sweet potatoes and wild rice makes this lovely soup my new fall favorite.
Let’s Make Turkey & Wild Rice Soup with that leftover turkey!
Not only is this leftover turkey and wild rice soup chock full of nutritious veggies, the creamy broth is the easiest ever with a surprise ingredient!
Let’s make the Turkey Wild Rice Soup Step by Step:
Add a few tablespoons of olive oil to a heavy stock pot and heat to medium
We start with the dynamic quad that you should already be familiar with!
Carrots, celery, onion and garlic.
We also are going to add in mushrooms and sweetpotatoes to the pot
Sauté all the veggies together until some browning occurs and the fragrance is heightened.
Add in the chicken stock and bring to a simmer
Now add the wild rice to the soup & let it go:
Add in 1 cup of wild rice and cook over low heat at a simmer for 45 minutes.
Add a little more flavor to the soup at the end:
For the last 10 minutes of simmering, you can add a bundle of fresh thyme. Yum!
Now add the turkey and kale to your leftover turkey soup!
While that is cooking, prep your turkey by cutting into chunks and remove the rough stems from the chopped kale
Once the rice is cooked, remove the thyme bundle and add in the coconut milk, kale and turkey and heat until the entire soup is heated through and the kale is softened.
Serve immediately and enjoy!
Trust me, this Turkey Wild Rice Soup will be your new favorite too!
Turkey Wild Rice Soup
Ingredients
- 2-3 T. olive oil
- 2 carrots peeled and rough chopped
- 2 stalks celery rough chopped
- 1 medium yellow onion chopped
- 3 cloves garlic minced
- 1 medium sweet potato peeled and rough chopped
- 8 oz. mushrooms sliced
- 48 oz. chicken stock
- 1 cup wild rice
- 5 fresh thyme sprigs bundled
- 1 can coconut milk
- 2-3 cups of cooked leftover turkey
- 2 large handfuls of kale chopped with woody stems removed
Instructions
- Add the olive oil to a heavy stock pot and heat over medium heat
- Add the carrots, celery, onion, mushrooms, and sweet potato and stir until softened. Add in the garlic and stir for about a minute more.
- Add the chicken stock and bring to a simmer. Once simmering, add the rice and cover for 35 minutes. Add the bundle of thyme and cook covered for another 10 minutes.
- Remove the thyme bundle and add the coconut milk, kale and turkey. Heat to a simmer and cook for about 5-10 minutes until kale is wilted and ready to serve
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Love wild rice? We do too! Try this Wild Rice Pudding, Stuffed Bell Peppers, our friend KC’s Pomegranate Wild Rice or Meg’s Acorn Squash with Wild Rice next!
The best easy side dish: Delicious Lima Bean + Ricotta Salad
Lima beans? In a salad? Trust us on this one–even if you don’t love limas, they give this salad a healthy boost, offering a little creaminess to balance out the lemon and dill. And like all the other fresh ingredients in this recipe, they’re grown right here in the Golden State!