Thanksgiving Turkey Soup

I've already posted about this soup previously.  Because I am giving this to a few people, I thought I'd post how I made it this time.  I made the stock the day before and let it cool in the fridge so I could skim the fat off.  It was made with the neck, bones, bay leaves, parsley, rosemary, thyme, savory, onion, carrot, celery,  cayenne pepper and S&P.  I simmered it for 8 hours and strained it through cheesecloth.

The bone broth was gelatinous, it shook like a pot of  turkey Jell-O.  So mmmm mmmm good when it's like this.  Here's what I decided to use today:

• Leftover turkey, small cubes, to taste - I used about 3 cups?
• 1 cup of mung beans, soaked overnight (Superfood! Low in calories, low in fat, high in fiber, high in protein)

• 1 large Mayan sweet onion, diced
• 2 stalks of celery, sliced
• 1 bunch of carrots, sliced
• 1 large yam, peeled & cubed 
• 150 grams organic baby spinach
• 4 small parsnips, peeled and sliced
• Handful of fresh Italian parsley, coarsely chopped
• Fresh thyme, few stalks tied in bundle
• Fresh savory, frew stalks tied in bundle
• Fresh stalk of sage, tied in bundle
• Fresh cracked pepper and kosher salt, to taste

I tend to overload soups so didn't want to do that this time, but I ended up doing it anyway.  I wanted the broth to be the *star*.  I put the mung beans, onion, celery and carrots in first as they took the longest to cook.  See, looky below, full already!  I put the herb bundle in as well.

Those simmered for a half hour, I cut up the rest of the veggies then put in the yam and parsnips.  (I had to remove some broth though, a couple of cups and we drank it - so good, son said it was delicious on its own).  I chopped the turkey - dark and white meat.

The spinach, turkey and parsley went in at the last 10 minutes.

I checked seasoning (more S&P), removed herb bundle and served.

We both loved the broth.  Son said it was amazing.  Soup had lots of flavor, not too mushy with textures and just a downright hearty, inside warming, bowl of love.  🥰  THIS, finally felt healthy as well.  UGH, so much bad eating the last few days...