Turkey Minestrone Soup

Turkey Minestrone Soup

Turkey Minestrone Soup

Ingredients

  • 1 meaty turkey carcass
  • 10 cups water
  • ¼ cup chicken stock
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 2 -14.5 ounce cans stewed tomatoes
  • 1 - 15.5 ounce cans great northern beans, drained
  • 1 - 15 ounce can garbanzo beans, drained
  • 2 potatoes, peeled and cubed
  • 1 ½ teaspoons minced garlic
  • 1 tablespoon dried basil, crumbled
  • ½ teaspoons salt, (optional)
  • ¼ teaspoons freshly ground black pepper
  • ½ cup broken uncooked spaghetti
  • 1 - 16 ounce package frozen Italian green beans

Directions

  1. In large Dutch oven, combine first 4 ingredients. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer, covered, 1 hour.
  2. Remove meat and bones from broth; cool. Remove turkey meat from bones; discard bones. Chop turkey into bite-size pieces. Strain broth; return broth and turkey to Dutch oven.
  3. Stir in next 9 ingredients. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer 20 minutes. 

  4. Stir in spaghetti and green beans; continue cooking until potatoes and pasta are tender (about 10 minutes).

* Recipes created for given quantity. Changes to quantities are for planning purposes only and have not been tested.