Turkey Bone Soup With Spaetzle Recipes

TURKEY-SPAETZLE SOUP

Steps:

• In 4-quart saucepan, heat oil over medium-high heat. Add onion, carrot, celery and garlic; cook about 2 minutes, stirring frequently, until crisp-tender.
• Gradually stir in flour, thyme and pepper; cook about 1 minute, stirring constantly. Stir in turkey and broth; heat to boiling.
• Stir in frozen spaetzle. Cook 2 to 3 minutes, stirring occasionally, until spaetzle are tender. Sprinkle with parsley.

HOMEMADE TURKEY SOUP

Steps:

• Place the turkey carcass in a stockpot; add the water, onion, salt and bay leaves. Slowly bring to a boil over low heat; cover and simmer for 2 hours., Remove carcass; cool. Strain broth and skim fat. Discard onion and bay leaves. Return broth to the pan. Add the carrots, rice, celery and chopped onion; cover and simmer until rice and vegetables are tender. , Remove turkey from bones; discard bones and cut turkey into bite-size pieces. Add turkey and cream soup to broth; heat through.

CHICKEN SOUP WITH SPAETZLE

Steps:

• In a large kettle or Dutch oven, brown chicken pieces in oil. Add the broth, bay leaves, thyme and pepper. Bring to a boil; skim foam. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 45-60 minutes or until chicken is tender. Remove chicken and set aside until cool enough to handle. Remove meat from bones; discard bones and skin and cut chicken into bite size pieces. Cool broth and skim off fat., Return chicken to broth along with the carrots, celery, onion, garlic and barley. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 35 minutes. Add mushrooms and simmer 8-10 minutes longer. Remove bay leaves. , In a small bowl, combine first three spaetzle ingredients. Stir in the egg, water and milk; blend well. Drop batter by 1/2 teaspoonfuls into simmering soup. Cook for 10 minutes.

TURKEY BONE SOUP

Steps:

• Place the turkey carcass in a large stockpot with a lid. Pour the chicken broth over the turkey to mostly cover. Drop in the onion, celery, and garlic. Bring to a boil over medium heat, cover, and simmer for 2 hours, turning the carcass occasionally.
• Remove the carcass from the stock and set aside to cool. Remove the onion, celery and garlic from the stock and drop them into a blender along with about 1/2 cup of the stock, filling the pitcher no more than halfway full. Hold down the lid of the blender with a folded kitchen towel, and carefully start the blender, using a few quick pulses to get the vegetable mixture moving before leaving it on to puree. Pour the pureed onion, celery, and garlic back into the stock.
• Remove as much cooked turkey meat from the carcass as possible and add the meat to the stock. Stir in the chopped turkey breast, frozen mixed vegetables, rice, canned kidney beans, salt, pepper, oregano, basil and paprika. Bring the soup to a boil, cover, and simmer until the rice is tender, 20 to 30 minutes.

FARMHOUSE CHICKEN SOUP WITH SPAETZLE

Steps:

• Place the chicken, water and broth into a Dutch oven. Bring to a boil. Meanwhile, melt butter in a preheated skillet; add the onion, celery and carrots. Saute on medium heat for 3 minutes. Add garlic and cook for another two minutes. Add the sauteed onion, celery, carrots and garlic to the boiling stock. Add salt, pepper, poultry seasoning and red pepper flakes. Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 1 to 1 1/2 hours or until chicken is tender and broth is flavorful.
• Remove chicken from broth; cool. Skim fat from broth. Remove meat from bones; discard bones and skin. Cut meat into bite-size pieces; return to broth. Cover and simmer while preparing spaetzle.
• For spaetzle, combine the flour, salt, baking powder and nutmeg in a small bowl. Stir in the eggs, milk and parsley; blend well. With a rubber spatula, push batter through a large-hole grater or colander into the simmering soup. Simmer, uncovered, for 10 minutes or until spaetzle float to the top.

MOE'S TURKEY BONE SOUP

Steps:

• Place the turkey carcass and whole onion in a soup kettle and cover with cold water.
• Bring to a boil and simmer, covered 2 hours or until carcass is falling apart.
• Stir in the bouillon cubes the last 1/2 hours of cooking.
• Remove from heat and cool.
• Pour everything from the soup kettle into a colander, discarding the onion.
• When cool enough to handle, reserve only the pieces of turkey meat, discarding bones, skin and gristle.
• Refrigerate the meat at once.
• Chill the strained broth.
• Discard fat and return the broth to the soup kettle and bring to a boil.
• Add rice and chopped vegetables. Season to taste and simmer until rice is done.
• Stir in reserve meat.
• Heat thoroughly. Do Not Freeze.

TURKEY BONE SOUP WITH SPAETZLE

Steps:

• * Remove any sizeable pieces of meat from turkey carcass and cube refrigerate. Place bones and remainder of ingredients in a large Dutch oven or kettle bring to boil. Reduce heat and simmer, covered, for 1 1/2 to 2 hours cool. Remove any meat from bones cube and add to refrigerated meat. Discard bones strain stock. Cool and remove any surface fat accumulation. Return stock to kettle and bring to boil add the following vegetables. Vegetables: * Add vegetables and seasonings to simmering stock and bring to boil cover and simmer 30 to 40 minutes or until vegetables are tender. Prepare the following spaetzle and add to stock 6 to 8 minutes before vegetables are done. * Any mixture or vegetables can be used, keeping in mind flavor and color. Spaetzle:*Combine beaten egg with water add to combined flour, salt, baking powder, and nutmeg. Spaetzle should be light and delicate. If heavy, add a bit more water to dough. Oil the bottom of a colander with vegetable oil push dough through colander into simmering stock.Bring to boil simmer 2 to 3 minutes. Stir in cubed turkey meat. Continue cooking until spaetzle is done (5 to 7 minutes) and meat is heated through. Serve with a sprinkling of minced fresh parsley.Note: If freezing a portion of the soup, remove amount to be frozen before adding spaetzle.