This recipe for turkey dumpling soup is the perfect way to use up your Thanksgiving leftovers. My husband and I love dumplings, and this mild-tasting, homey dish has flavorful dumplings floating on a savory turkey and vegetable stew. It’s a comforting main dish soup that really hits the spot on chilly fall and winter days.
Turkey with Dumplings Soup
This recipe for turkey dumpling soup is the perfect way to use up your Thanksgiving leftovers. My husband and I love dumplings, and this mild-tasting, homey dish has flavorful dumplings floating on a savory turkey and vegetable stew. It's a comforting main dish soup that really hits the spot on chilly fall and winter days.
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter cubed
- 8 medium carrots cut into 1-inch chunks
- 4 stalks celery cut into 1-inch chunks
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 4 ⅔ cups water divided
- 10.5 ounce cans condensed beef consommé
- 2 teaspoons salt
- ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
- 3 cups cubed leftover cooked turkey
- 2 cups frozen cut green beans
- ½ cup all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
Dumplings:
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons minced fresh parsley
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ⅛ teaspoon poultry seasoning
- ¾ cup 2% milk
- 1 large egg
Instructions
- Melt butter in a Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add carrots, celery, and onion and sauté until soft, 5 to 10 minutes.
- Add 4 cups water, condensed consommé, salt, and pepper; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low, cover, and cook until vegetables are tender, 10 to 15 minutes.
- Add turkey and green beans to the Dutch oven; cook for 5 minutes.
- Combine flour, remaining 2/3 cup water, and Worcestershire sauce in a small bowl and stir until smooth.
- Stir into soup, increase heat, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover, and simmer soup until thickened, about 5 minutes.
- While soup is simmering, make dumplings: Mix flour, parsley, baking powder, salt, and poultry seasoning together in a large bowl. Whisk milk and egg together in a separate bowl. Stir egg mixture into flour mixture, mixing just until batter is moistened.
- Drop tablespoons of dumpling batter into simmering soup.
- Cover and simmer until a toothpick inserted into several dumplings comes out clean, 15 to 20 minutes.
Notes
Recipe Tip
You can use 2 cups leftover turkey stock or broth instead of condensed beef consommé and frozen peas instead of green beans.
