Dinner · 35 min · Amounts not specified
Turkey rice soup
Carcass if you have it; diced turkey if not.
The sheet · 4 bowls · 35 min
easyWhy tonight. Carcass if you have it; diced turkey if not.
What it needs
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- turkey
- rice
- carrot
- onion
- stock
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: parsley.
Method
- Sweat the carrot and onion properly first, ten minutes, which is where the soup gets its body.
- Simmer the carcass or the stock with the aromatics before any turkey meat goes near it.
- Cook the rice separately if there will be leftovers. Rice left in broth overnight drinks all of it.
- Leftover turkey in at the very end, torn rather than cubed, and only to warm through.
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What the method is trying to make happen
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The technique underneath this
- StockPulling gelatin and flavor out of bones and aromatics without pulling out the things that make it cloudy and bitter.thin and watery · cloudy · bitter · greasy
- Pan sauceTurning what stuck to the pan into a sauce. Two minutes of work at the end of something you already cooked.watery · too salty · greasy · broken · bitter
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Published minimums for what is in this
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- StocksClassic Chicken Broth/Stock | Chef Jean-PierreChef Jean-PierreThe plain classical method, including when to skim and why nobody bothers to explain it.Link checked 2026-09-08
- StocksOur Favorite Way to Make Homemade Chicken StockAmerica's Test KitchenWhere body comes from — the ratio that gives a stock enough gelatin to set in the fridge.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Knife skillsHow To Dice OnionsAmerica's Test KitchenWalks through the claw grip and the two cuts that turn a whole onion into an even dice.Link checked 2026-09-08
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- turkey
- Lean and huge, which is a bad combination for even cooking.
- rice
- Starch that either steams or fries, and the two want opposite things.
- carrot
- Sweetness that survives long cooking, which is why it sits under so many braises.
- onion
- The base under most of this library.
- stock
- Body, not flavor — that is the part people get backwards.
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