Turkey Wild Rice Soup
Warm up this winter with a bowl of turkey wild rice soup.
Ingredients
- 1 pound leftover roasted turkey meat
- 3 Tbsp butter
- 1 large onion chopped
- 2 medium carrots chopped
- 2 stalks celery chopped
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 3 Tbsp all-purpose flour
- 1 cup half & half
- ¾ cup wild rice uncooked
- 4½ cups turkey or chicken stock
- 1 bay leaf
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 tsp thyme
- 1 tsp rosemary
- 2 tsp parsley garnish
Instructions
- Melt the butter in a large stock pot. Add the onions, carrots, and celery. Cook until the onion is translucent and soft. Add garlic and cook for one minute.
- Add flour and mix well. Slowly stir in the half and half, wild rice, stock, salt, pepper, thyme, and rosemary.
- Bring to a boil then reduce the heat to medium-low, and cover. Cook until rice is cooked; 45 minutes to an hour.
- Add the turkey to the pot and cook for another 5 minutes until heated though.
- Remove the bay leaf. Ladle the soup into bowls and garnish with parsley.