Holiday Turkey Soup

Total Time: 3 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 3 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1 turkey carcass (meat removed from thanksgiving or christmas dinner)
• 1 bay leaf
• turkey broth
• 2 -3 cups cut up turkey meat
• 1 cup dry barley
• 1/2 cup dry rice (brown preferred)
• 1 chopped onion
• 1 cup chopped fresh parsley
• 12 cups water (filtered preferred)
• 1 teaspoon poultry seasoning
• 1 teaspoon salt (sea salt preferred)
• 4 -6 pressed garlic cloves or 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/2 cup chopped carrot
• 2 -3 chopped celery ribs
• pepper

Recipe

• 1 cover turkey carass with with the 12 cups of water and add the bay leaf. bring to boil, then cook on low for 1 to 2 hours. let cool, remove carass & bay leaf & skim the fat.
• 2 bring broth to boil and add barley, salt, pepper, poulty seasoning.
• 3 once barley has been started, cook rice in a separate pot.
• 4 after barley has cooked for about 40 minutes, add turkey & all remaining veggies. cook an additional 20 minutes.
• 5 stir in cooked rice. serves a crowd & is even better the second day. freezes great as well.