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Thanksgiving Soup Recipes

These Thanksgiving soup recipes make a great addition to your holiday meal or a fantastic way to use up some leftovers. With turkey flavoring as a key ingredient, these soups will warm you up for Thanksgiving.

Each healthy soup recipe will list the ingredients, step by step directions as well as the nutritional information per serving. As an extra bonus you will also find the Weight Watchers points for each recipe. So if you are a member, then check out these soups for your Weight Watchers Thanksgiving meal.

Use the links below to jump to the recipe you want to try or scroll through this page to see them all.

bulletTurkey Vegetable Herb Dumpling Soup

bulletAlmond Wild Rice Turkey Soup



Healthy Thanksgiving Soup Recipes #1

Turkey Vegetable Soup with Herb Dumplings

This one takes some time to cook but will be well worth the wait. Put this in well before the turkey so that it's done at about the same time. Or make this as a great left over soup. With the dumplings, this soup filling enough to be a meal in itself.

bowl of warm soup Ingredients
  • 8 Cups turkey broth
  • 4 Cups roasted turkey meat, skinless
  • 1 (10 oz) can of diced tomatoes
  • 1 Celery stalk (medium)
  • 1 Carrot (medium), diced
  • 1 Turnip, peeled and diced
  • 1 Onion (medium), diced
  • 4 Teaspoon dried parsley, divided
  • 1 Bay leaf
  • 1 1/2 Cups flour
  • 2 Teaspoon baking powder
  • 3/4 Teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 Teaspoon dried rosemary
  • 3 Tablespoons solid shortening
  • 3/4 Cup milk

Directions
  • Place the turkey broth into the crock pot.
  • Place the diced tomatoes, celery, carrot, turnip & onion in the crock pot.
  • Sprinkle in 2 t of the dried parsley.
  • Place the bay leaf into the mixture.
  • Cover and cook on the low temperature setting 6 hours.
  • Place the turkey meat into the crock pot, cover and cook on low for 1 hour.
  • Place the flour, baking powder, salt, rosemary and remaining parsley into a bowl.
  • Cut the shortening into the dry ingredients with a pastry cutter until the mixture becomes coarse.
  • Add enough of the milk to the flour mixture to moisten it but leaving the mixture thick enough to make mounds on the end of a spoon.
  • Drop the mixture by spoonfuls into the crock pot.
  • Cover, place the temperature setting on high and cook for 20 without lifting the lid.
Makes 8 Servings

When adding the milk to the flour mixtures just add a little bit at a time.  This will help in making sure the dry ingredients are moistened but still remain thick.

Nutritional Information per Servings
  • Calories: 318
  • Fat: 7.0 g
  • Carbs: 24.0 g
  • Fiber: 2.0 g
  • Protein: 39.0 g
  • Weight Watcher Points: 7
As an alternative to this soup, try using a whole turkey. Just add the turkey at the beginning. Then after 7 hours of cooking, remove the turkey and separate the meat from the bones. Place the meat back into the crock pot and then continue on with the steps for the dumplings.


Thanksgiving Soup Recipes #2

Almond Wild Rice Turkey Soup

Use your roasted turkey meat for this warm and tasty Thanksgiving soup recipe.



Ingredients
  • 2 Tablespoons butter
  • 1/2 Cup dry wild rice
  • 6 Cups turkey broth
  • 1/2 Cup minced onion
  • 1/2 Cup celery, chopped
  • 2 Cups light meat roasted turkey, chopped
  • 1/2 Cup slivered almonds
Directions
  • Place the butter into a small skillet over medium heat.
  • Allow the butter to melt completely then add the dry rice.
  • Reduce the heat to low and stirring occasionally sauté the rice for 10 minutes.
  • Remove the rice from the skillet and place in the crock pot.
  • Pour in the turkey broth and stir.
  • Add the onion and celery and stir to combine well.
  • Set the heat setting to low, cover the crock pot and cook 4 hours.
  • Add the turkey meat and continue cooking on low 1 hour.
  • Ladle the soup into bowls and top with the slivered almonds.
Makes 8 Servings

Nutritional Information per Servings
  • Calories: 150
  • Fat: 5.0 g
  • Carbs: 5.0 g
  • Fiber: 1.0 g
  • Protein: 14.0 g
  • Weight Watcher Points: 3
This Thanksgiving soup recipes idea will make a great addition to your Thanksgiving feast or a great way to use up the left over turkey meat. To reduce the fat content, substitute the turkey broth with fat free chicken broth.


For even more Thanksgiving soup recipes ideas, check out these other healthy soup recipes.




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