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Turkey Bisque Soup is the perfect solution to leftover turkey. It’s easy, delicious and creamy.
Soup is always a good option for a delicious and easy dinner. Some of our family’s favorite soups include this Sausage Tortellini Soup, Chicken Tortilla Soup and Instant Pot Chicken Noodle Soup.
Turkey day almost here!! I am excited because I get to spend it with all my kids and grandbabies! Holidays with all of my children have become more and more rare so I plan on enjoying this one as much as I can!Â
Turkey Leftovers
Our menu will contain all of our family favorites. You can find our traditional Thanksgiving menu here.
We are planning on a turkey and a smoked turkey. Â I’m hoping there will be some leftovers so I can make this Turkey Bisque Soup again!
Don’t worry though if you don’t have any leftovers. Â This soup is just as delicious made with chicken as with turkey. Â It has a nice, light cream sauce thanks to a little bit of half and half. Â If you are dairy free, just leave out the 1/2 and 1/2.
If you are using chicken, you can make your shredded chicken in the Instant Pot, the Crock Pot or the microwave.
The soup has plenty of nice flavor thanks to the carrots, green peppers, onion and parsley.
My husband mentioned that it would be yummy with some noodles added in too, I agree and will try it next time. Â This recipe was shared with me by a friend. Â It is a knock off recipe from a local Portland restaurant that is no longer around.
So what’s your favorite thing to do with leftover turkey?
For some other yummy ideas to use leftover turkey with try these:
- Italian Turkey Soup
- Turkey Day Leftover Ideas
- Lemon Turkey Noodle Soup
- Fiesta Turkey Soup
- How to cook the perfect turkey.
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Turkey Bisque Recipe
Turkey Bisque Soup
Ingredients
- 2 cups cooked turkey or chicken
- 1/4 cup onion diced
- 1 Tbsp olive oil
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 1 cup carrot diced
- 1 green pepper diced
- 1 Tbsp dry parsley
- 4 cups turkey or chicken stock
- 4 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- 2 Tbs butter softened
- 4 Tbs flour
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 cup half & half
Instructions
- In a soup pot, heat oil and add onion, green pepper and carrots.
- Cook for 3-4 minutes. Add garlic and cook until fragrant
- Add chicken and stock to pot and bring to a boil. Boil until carrots are cooked through.
- Mix together flour and butter together to form a roux.
- Add half & half, roux, parsley and Worcestershire sauce to soup.
- Add salt & pepper to taste.
- Simmer for 10-15 minutes. Serve.
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Originally posted November 21, 2013
Cheryl Bibbee says
I made this bisque and it was amazing. I do not like peppers so I subbed celery for it. Thank you fir the recipe!
Bill Julian says
I used to get a turkey bisque soup at a restaurant in Anchorage, Alaska back in the 70s. IT WAS AWESOME. I was so delighted to find this recipe. We tried it today with chicken, and IT WAS AWESOME. I can’t wait to try it with turkey. Thank you so much.
Leigh Anne says
So glad you found the recipe and enjoyed it!
Kelly Jones says
This was perfectly delicious. We used our leftover turkey from Thanksgiving and it was perfect. Thank you for sharing your great recipes. 🙂
Leigh Anne says
I am so glad you loved the soup too!!
Dee says
Leigh Anne,
I found you through Pinterest and came to your site to print the recipe for the Turkey Bisque Soup. When I got here, I saw the recipe for Italian Turkey Soup and printed them both. Not able to decide which one to make for dinner tonight, I combined the recipes and threw all the ingredients into one pot. Now I have an amazing Italian Turkey Bisque Soup that I can’t wait to serve to my family for dinner! Thank you for the recipes! They are wonderful! I’m looking forward to doing more exploring of your site and recipes!
Phyllis says
My brother and I used this soup recipe as a template for our soup. We didn’t have all of the ingredients so used/ substituted what we had with delicious results. We added 1/2 cup celery, 1/2 cup sweet potatoes. And increased the broth by 1 cup. We substituted almond milk for the half and half, and used 1 Tbs. butter and 1 TBS avocado oil.
Delicious results and love the lightly thickened soup base!!
Leigh Anne says
So glad you enjoyed the soup!
Lisa says
I made this for dinner tonight. I added some orzo pasta and used celery instead of green pepper. It was absolutely delicious! Thanks for the great recipe!
Leigh Anne says
Liz, Love the idea of adding in the orzo pasta! So glad you enjoyed it