The Ultimate Turkey Dinner Leftovers Soup

Name: The Ultimate Turkey Dinner Leftovers Soup
Yield: Serves 4 to 6
Ingredients: 2½ cups leftover stuffing; ½ cup finely grated parmesan cheese; ½ cup grated mozzarella; ¼ cup heavy (35%) cream; 2 Tbsp. canola oil; 2 yellow onions, diced; 6 cups turkey broth (or chicken broth); 2 cups leftover mashed potatoes; ½ cup leftover gravy; 1 Tbsp. apple cider vinegar; 1 tsp. dried rosemary; 1 cup chopped leftover carrots (or other winter vegetable like parsnips, acorn squash, or butternut squash); 1 cup finely chopped leftover cooked turkey meat; ¼ cup heavy (35%) cream; Salt

By Dan Clapson and Twyla Campbell

August 28, 2023

Turkey soup in a cocotte with toasted bread and cheese topping.

Photo by Dong Kim

First of all, do not go making big batches of mashed potatoes, carrots, stuffing, and roast turkey just to make this soup. This recipe is meant for you to look at your leftovers as a mise en place for something new. This baked soup is always a hit in my household. It’s an unexpected way to use leftovers, but once you consider that broth plus cream plus mashed potatoes add up to what is essentially cream of potato soup, adding a few extra vegetables and turkey meat isn’t so odd at all.

This recipe was excerpted from 'Prairie' by Dan Clapson and Twyla Campbell. Buy the full book on Amazon.