Melinda's Thanksgiving Left-overs Soup
- Preparing Time: 30 minutes
- Total Time: 2 hours and 30 minutes
- Served Person: 16
- 3 cups water
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 large sweet onion diced
- 1 cup mashed potatoes
- ground cayenne pepper to taste
- 1 cooked turkey (bones only - all meat removed)
- 2 cups apple brandy or cream sherry
- 8 cups no salt chicken broth
- 8 fresh sage leaves
- 2 sweet onions quartered
- 2 whole green apples quartered
- 2 whole oranges quartered
- four cups fresh cranberries
- once broth is strained we will cook and/add these
- 10 celery sticks sliced into little half-moons
- 4 to 6 cups bite size turkey meat
- 4 cups sweet potato casserole (use a less sweet version)
- green beans from casserole or plain add to taste i
- salt, pepper to taste
- apple cider vinegar to taste
- brown sugar if needed, to taste
- Carbohydrate 2.43044407327586 g
- Cholesterol 0.2625 mg
- Fat 0.0978611422413793 g
- Fiber 0.26965667950696 g
- Protein 0.271577650862069 g
- Saturated Fat 0.0445992887931034 g
- Serving Size 1 1 Serving (58g)
- Sodium 41.4437995704681 mg
- Sugar 2.1607873937689 g
- Trans Fat 0.0249558836206896 g
- Calories 12 calories
For the Broth; place all broth ingredients in large heavy pot. Bring to a boil and then reduce to simmer covered for 2 hours. Uncover to cook off alcohol for 30 minutes remove large bones and chunks and then strain off remainder of small chunks-straining broth into bowl - discard all that was strained out. Set bowl of broth aside - strain any fat using fat separator in batches and set broth aside. Heat the same pan to med high and swirl olive oil 3 times around pan place 1 finely chopped large sweet onion and 8 sliced celery sticks and sauté till crisp/done then pour in 1/4 of the broth. Slowly add the sweet potatoes and the mashed potatoes while whisking. In the end add all of the potatoes. Add more broth unless you have the consistency you desire (can save any remaining broth by freezing. Add salt, pepper and "heat" to taste This soup should be even on the sweet/sour/hot/salty. If shy on sweet - add brown sugar, if shy on sour, add vinegar, if shy on hot - add more cayenne pepper. Add cubed or shredded turkey and green beans if you have them combine and heat through.
