Published 11/20/2022 • Updated 7/18/2023
Easy Homemade Turkey Stock
There is no question that homemade stock or homemade broth is always more flavorful than store-bought. This turkey stock is made with a leftover turkey carcass (just bones and leftover meat. Think post-thanksgiving) and leftover vegetables. You simmer all the ingredients together to create a delicious stock.
Featured Ingredients
Turkey carcass: the idea for this recipe is that you can use the turkey carcass after cooking a whole turkey. However, you can use bits and pieces of meat or carcass pieces that you have frozen over a period of time. It’s a great way to reduce waste and use pieces of vegetables that you haven’t used as well as turkey bones and scraps. This stock makes the perfect base for soup like leftover turkey soup or any soup, really! All you have to do is throw all of the ingredients in a slow cooker, cover them in water, set it, and forget it. Your turkey pieces can include (but are not limited to) the whole turkey carcass, turkey wings, turkey legs, skin, and leftover pieces of turkey. If you don’t have a turkey carcass, this recipe would also work with a chicken carcass from roasting a whole chicken. Vegetables: we used classic broth or stock, carrots, celery, and onion. However, this is a great opportunity to use bits of vegetables that you would usually throw away or that you’ve frozen for later. Fresh Herbs: a mixture of fresh thyme, rosemary, thyme, or sage adds so much to any stock or broth. Salt: adding this as a featured ingredient because a bland stock is the worst. Be sure you adequately salt your stock. Add some salt before you cook and after to make sure you are supporting all of the delicious ingredients in your stock with salt.
How to Make Turkey Stock
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The more vegetables, the better. A wider range of vegetables used will create a delicious depth of flavor to your stock. Make a big batch. Don’t worry about making too much stock. It is a great way to store up stock for a rainy day in the freezer. Get creative. Feel free to play with the flavors and spice levels by adding different dried spices or spicy peppers to give your stock a kick.
Storage
Let this stock cool completely before storing it in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 5 days. Thanksgiving Turkey
Freezing instructions
Let this stock cool completely and then transfer it to a freezer-safe container. Freeze it for up to 3 months. How to Freeze Soup & Chili
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