Day-After-Thanksgiving Turkey Carcass Soup

This Thanksgiving soup transforms your leftover turkey carcass, a little stuffing, and vegetables into a rich, hearty broth with rice and peas. It’s an easy, comforting way to enjoy one more round of holiday flavor the next day.

With this warm and cozy leftover turkey soup, you can enjoy every last bit of your Thanksgiving meal.

Leftover Turkey Soup Ingredients 

 These are the ingredients you'll need to make this turkey soup with Thanksgiving leftovers:

• Turkey carcass: Use the picked-over turkey carcass from your holiday dinner.

• Stuffing: This turkey carcass soup recipe is a great use for all your holiday leftovers, including stuffing.

• Fresh vegetables: You'll need to dice an onion, two carrots, and two celery stalks.

• Seasonings: This flavorful turkey soup is seasoned with poultry seasoning, ground sage, bay leaves, garlic salt, and black pepper.

• Broth: The ingredients are cooked together in store-bought or homemade broth.

• Rice: Long-grain white rice makes this hearty soup even more filling.

• Frozen peas: A package of frozen green beans adds a burst of flavor and color.

  
  

How to Make Leftover Turkey Soup

You'll find the full, step-by-step recipe below, but here's a brief overview of what you'll find when you make this leftover turkey soup:

2. Make the stock: Place the carcass, stuffing, onion, carrots, celery, poultry seasoning, sage, and bay leaves in a deep pot. Cover with broth and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for about an hour. Remove the carcass from the pot and discard the bones.

3. Make the soup: Return the meat to the pot. Season the soup with garlic salt and pepper. Add the rice, bring the soup to a boil, then reduce to a simmer. Cook for about 15 minutes, add the peas, and continue cooking until the rice is tender.

Ingredients 

• 1 picked-over turkey carcass

• 1 ½ cups leftover stuffing

• 1  onion, peeled and diced

• 2  carrots, peeled and sliced

• 2  celery stalks, chopped

• 1 tablespoon poultry seasoning

• 1 teaspoon ground sage

• 2  bay leaves

• 2 ½ quarts chicken broth

• 1 cup water, or as needed (Optional)

• ½ teaspoon garlic salt, or to taste

• ground black pepper, to taste

• 2 cups (uncooked) regular long-grain white rice

• 1 (16 ounce) package frozen green peas

Directions

1.  Place the turkey carcass in a large, deep pot. Add stuffing, onion, carrots, celery, poultry seasoning, sage, and bay leaves.

2. Pour in chicken broth. Add additional water if needed to cover. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Reduce the heat to medium and simmer, skimming off any foam, for about 1 hour.

3.  Remove carcass and any bones. Pick any meat off the carcass and bones. Return meat to the pot and discard bones and skin.

4. Season the soup with garlic salt and pepper. Stir in rice and return to a boil over medium-high heat. Reduce the heat to medium and simmer for 15 minutes.

5.  Stir in peas and continue to simmer until rice is tender, about 10 minutes more.

6.  Adjust seasonings to taste before serving.

7.  Serve hot and enjoy!

[Source: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/130979/day-after-thanksgiving-turkey-carcass-soup/]