Soups with poultry meat are often prepared for children, but adults will also like a rich broth with a variety of additives. Traditionally use chicken. However, turkey breast soup is equally healthy and tasty. So it’s worth including this ingredient in your diet. The first dish can be prepared according to a variety of recipes, with vegetables, noodles, with saturated broth or as mashed potatoes. There are also more exotic options, with pasta and lemon juice. Also goes well with appetizing broth and sorrel.
Turkey Breast Soup: Cooking Tips
Turkey fillet is a storehouse of vitamins. It has vitamin E, which is recognized not only as a beauty vitamin, but also as an antioxidant, that is, its regular use is important for those who work under harmful working conditions.
How to cook a delicious soup? Cooking the first dish is no more difficult than with chicken, which many are used to. How to cook turkey fillet? It all depends on the size of the breast. Small enough to boil for forty minutes after boiling. Large - from fifty minutes to an hour.
How to cook turkey fillet for soup? It usually takes an hour. It is better to slightly digest the meat. When checking, you should pierce the breast deeply, see that there is no pink juice. For children, it is better to boil the fillet for about an hour and a half. However, if the fillet is cut very finely, the soup can be cooked quickly enough.
Delicious vegetable soup for children and adults
This recipe for turkey breast soup is popular with both children and adults. It is quite dietary, it has bright vegetables. It is light and low in calories. To prepare you need to take:
- two hundred ml of water;
- one hundred grams of turkey fillet;
- one hundred grams of zucchini;
- half the onion head;
- 50 grams of frozen green peas;
- half an apple;
- a tablespoon of grated parmesan.
Zucchini, onion and apple peel. Dice. Turkey filet is boiled. The finished meat is cooled, cut into cubes. The broth is brought to a boil. Zucchini and peas are added, boiled for about five minutes after boiling again.
Add onion and apple, cook another ten minutes. After removing the soup from the turkey breast from the stove, using a blender turn it into mashed potatoes. When served, sprinkle with turkey and grated cheese.
Turkey and Carrot Soup
This soup has a creamy texture, very tender. And the color due to carrots is beautiful. As a contrast, pieces of turkey. For such a tender version of the soup you need to take:
- 250 grams of turkey breast;
- a couple of tablespoons of vegetable oil;
- 800 ml of vegetable broth;
- 500 grams of carrots;
- two apples, preferably sour;
- some soy sauce;
- onion head;
- clove of garlic;
- spices to taste;
- parsley greens.
First, rub the turkey fillet with salt and pepper. Half the vegetable oil is fried meat, when a crust appears, the fire is reduced, fried for another ten minutes. After being removed from the stove, cut into slices.
Add oil. Peel the garlic and onion, cut into cubes, stew in oil until soft. Peel apples, cut into cubes, also come with carrots. Sent to the bow. Add the broth to the pan to cover the vegetables. Stew until soft. Beat the mass in mashed potatoes.
The remaining broth is brought to a boil, pieces of turkey and mashed potatoes are introduced. Sprinkle with herbs and boil again. Add soy sauce and spices.
Rich noodle soup
Noodle soups are often made on light poultry broths. Turkey is no exception. For such a simple but tasty turkey breast noodle soup, you need to take the following ingredients:
- six glasses of broth;
- two onion heads;
- two stalks of celery;
- one carrot;
- four cloves of garlic;
- 90 grams of egg noodles;
- one bay leaf;
- vegetable oil;
- 15 ml of soy sauce;
- salt and pepper to taste.
Onions and carrots are peeled, chopped quite finely. Vegetable oil is poured into a large pot, put on a stove and heated. Fry vegetables over low heat. Add chopped garlic. Stew for another five minutes, add celery, chopped into small cubes.
All season with salt and pepper, pour in the broth and soy sauce, bring to a boil. The turkey is finely chopped and added to the soup. Cook until meat is cooked. Ten minutes before the end of cooking, put the noodles into the broth. Stir. When serving, you can decorate each plate with fresh herbs.
Mushroom soup
Mushrooms go well with cheese. Therefore, these ingredients can easily be combined in a rich first course cooked with turkey fillet. The preparation time for the turkey breast soup is only one hour. For it you need to take the following products:
- one hundred grams of fillet;
- 150 grams of champignons;
- one hundred grams of potatoes;
- 50 grams of onions and carrots;
- a tablespoon of vegetable oil;
- one processed cheese - 90-100 grams;
- 700 ml of water.
All vegetables are peeled. Onions are cut in half rings, and then in half. Coarse carrots on a coarse grater. Potatoes are cut into small cubes. Onion and carrots are fried in vegetable oil, until soft. Add sliced mushrooms, stir.
The meat is cut very finely. Pour water into the pan, after boiling put meat and potatoes. Cook for at least thirty minutes, then put the frying of mushrooms and vegetables. Add salt and pepper. Put the diced cream cheese into cubes. Cook until meat is cooked. Such a turkey breast soup can be varied using different cheeses, for example, with bacon or mushrooms.
Soup with sorrel: an original dish
Not many people know that sorrel can make a wonderful dish. The so-called cabbage soup in this case is cooked not only with potatoes and onions, but also with bright pepper and tomatoes. The soup is very thick, full of diverse flavors. To prepare according to this recipe you need to take:
- 600 grams of turkey;
- three potato tubers;
- 200 grams of sorrel;
- one small carrot;
- onion head;
- one bell pepper;
- three tomatoes;
- salt and spices to taste;
- any greens to serve.
The meat is washed, dried. Pour water and set to cook. Peel vegetables, cut into small cubes. Cut sorrel. While the turkey is boiling, remove the foam from the broth surface. When the meat is soft, add the vegetables. Prepare until soft potatoes. After putting tomatoes and peppers. Fifteen minutes later, sorrel is added. Boil for five minutes.
Also, an egg is often added to such a soup. To do this, it is boiled to a steep state, then finely chopped and added with sorrel.
Turkey breast soup with lemon
This is one of the simplest but most interesting recipes. Due to the large amount of garlic, it has a bright aroma. For such a simple and interesting version of the soup, you need to take the following ingredients:
- two turkey fillets;
- a glass of garlic;
- two carrots;
- one bell red pepper;
- a glass of pasta;
- a bunch of dill;
- a couple of tablespoons of olive oil;
- one large lemon.
Wash the fillets, put in a pan and fill with water. After boiling, remove the foam, reduce the heat, cook until the meat is ready. After the broth is filtered.
Making a delicious recipe for soup
Turkey fillet cut into small pieces. It is better to let it cool first so as not to get burned. Peel the onion and garlic. Both ingredients are cut into fairly small cubes. Pour olive oil into the pan, heat it and fry the onions and garlic for a couple of minutes. Carrots are rubbed on a fine grater, pepper is cut into cubes, removing partitions and seeds. Remove the zest from the lemon, squeeze the juice. Dill is chopped finely. Vegetables and greens are sent to the pan. Pour strained broth. Bring to a boil, cook for another twenty minutes. Add the pasta. You can take bows or shells. Cook for another eight minutes. Then add chopped meat, juice and lemon zest. Cook for a couple more minutes and let the soup stand under the lid. When serving, you can add more fresh herbs. For example, the same dill or green celery. Dried greens are also good, but in small quantities.
Soups from poultry are most often fragrant and rich broth. To supplement take a variety of ingredients, vegetables and cereals, noodles, spices. The ingredients for turkey breast soup are the simplest, but such a main dish can significantly diversify any menu. So, for example, with a turkey you can cook both light children's soups and rich spicy soups for older people.