Homemade Turkey Soup – it’s a comforting soup made with leftover roast turkey and homemade stock, leftover creamy gravy, a fair amount of nutritious vegetables, hearty noodles, and fragrant fresh herbs.It’s an excellent way to use up leftover turkey from the holidays.This turkey soup is just like what mom and grandma made, but I’d dare say even a little better! It’s a less wasteful more economical recipe as uses it uses up the leftover turkey, and also the turkey carcass to make a homemade turkey stock from scratch.

Plus it calls for leftover gravy, and you can even use leftover corn from the holiday feast.I’ve also included the option to use dried herbs in place of fresh if that’s what you have on hand.Here you’ll see that less waste can equate to a far more flavorful soup.

The homemade stock is the game changer, it’s nutritious and so much more flavorful than store-bought.The stock is made prior, in the slow cooker for a very hands off approach (which is what I almost always do for homemade stock now).Homemade stock can also be made on the stovetop, just simmered over low heat for a few hours.

You can even cook it in a large instant pot for 1 1/2 hours.If you don’t have the leftover carcass to make a homemade stock for the soup you can use store-bought chicken broth (just keep in mind the flavor won’t have quite the same depth, leftover gravy will be helpful if you have that).Save this recipe for an after h

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