This quick Italian ground turkey soup features delicious fresh vegetables, beans, pasta, and cheese for a hearty, flavorful meal.
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Turkey soup is a great recipe made with lots of vegetables, beans, and a delicious liquid gold broth mixed with seasoned tomatoes for a perfect comforting meal.
What You’ll Love About This Recipe:
This easy family dinner recipe is a delicious turkey soup recipe and the perfect way to warm up as fall and winter approach. Pull out this recipe after a holiday meal for a great way to use up any Thanksgiving leftovers and a great way to use up your cooked turkey. Using the combination of ground turkey mixed with Italian flavors is a truly unique combination that makes this turkey soup recipe amazing.
Recipe Ingredient Notes
To make our Italian ground turkey soup, you need the following ingredients:
- Oil: Keep it simple by using the olive oil you have on hand
- Ground meat: Fresh ground turkey meat will work for this recipe
- Onion: Use either a yellow onion or a white onion that is diced
- Garlic: For the best flavor, use fresh cloves of garlic and mince it
- Seasoning: Combine Italian seasoning, kosher salt, dried oregano, dried parsley, and ground black pepper for a flavorful broth
- Tomato: Get a can of stewed tomatoes, preferably the Italian-style tomatoes
- Beans: Drain and rinse a can of Great Northern white beans
- Broth: For the best results, use your favorite brand of chicken broth or chicken stock
- Pasta: We like to use cooked rotini, but you can use any pasta shape you like
- Veggies: A combination of shredded carrots, thinly sliced zucchini, and chopped fresh spinach
- Cheese: A little freshly grated Parmesan cheese is a great way to top this delicious soup
Equipment Needed
For this recipe, you only need a few simple kitchen tools. We recommend using the following equipment:
How to Make Our Italian Ground Turkey Soup
- Pour olive oil into large stock pot or dutch oven and turn on burner to medium-high heat.
- When the oil is hot, add onions, garlic, ground turkey, Italian seasoning, salt, and pepper.
- Cook until turkey is completely cooked.
- Add canned tomatoes (including juice), beans, carrots, zucchini, broth, parsley and oregano.
- Reduce heat to simmer and simmer for 10-15 minutes (or until carrots and zucchini are cooked).
- While this is simmering, cook your noodles according to the package if they are not already cooked.
- Then, add the spinach to the turkey and veggie mixture in the stock pot, and stir it all together until the spinach is wilted.
- Add additional salt and pepper to taste.
- Add in cooked noodles and stir it all together.
- Top each serving with Parmesan cheese.
Recipe Notes
- Drain the ground turkey and onions in a colander before adding the seasoning to remove excess fat.
- Add any leftover cooked brown rice, wild rice, or white rice to turn this into a rice soup.
- For even more flavor in the rich broth, add a bay leaf.
- You can swap out the dried herbs for fresh herbs if you have them available.
- Make your own homemade turkey stock or turkey broth if you want another way to use your leftover turkey carcass.
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Italian Ground Turkey Soup Recipe
This quick Italian ground turkey soup features delicious fresh vegetables, beans, pasta, and cheese for a hearty, flavorful meal.
Serving people
Ingredients
- 1 ½ Tablespoons olive oil
- 1 pound ground turkey
- 1 small onion, diced
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 Tablespoon Italian seasoning
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon pepper
- 1 (15oz) can can stewed tomatoes, Italian style
- 1 (15oz) can Great Northern white beans, rinsed and drained
- 4 cups chicken broth
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 Tablespoon dried parsley
- 1 cup rotini, cooked (can use any pasta)
- 1 cup shredded carrots
- 1 zucchini, thinly sliced
- 5 cups fresh spinach , chopped (I chopped it into very small pieces)
- freshly grated Parmesan cheese
Instructions
- Pour olive oil into large stock pot and turn on burner to medium-high heat.
- When oil it hot, add onions, garlic, ground turkey, Italian seasoning, salt, and pepper.
- Cook until turkey is completely cooked.
- Add canned tomatoes (including juice), beans, carrots, zucchini, broth, parsley and oregano.
- Reduce heat to simmer and simmer for 10-15 minutes (or until carrots and zucchini are cooked).
- While this is simmering, cook your noodles according to the package if they are not already cooked.
- Then, add the spinach to the turkey and veggie mixture in the stock pot, and stir it all together until the spinach is wilted.
- Add additional salt and pepper to taste.
- Add in cooked noodles and stir it all together.
- Top each serving with Parmesan cheese.
Notes
- Drain the ground turkey and onions in a colander before adding the seasoning to remove excess fat.
- Add any leftover cooked brown rice, wild rice, or white rice to turn this into a rice soup.
- For even more flavor in the rich broth, add a bay leaf.
- You can swap out the dried herbs for fresh herbs if you have them available.
- Make your own homemade turkey stock or turkey broth if you want another way to use your leftover turkey carcass.
Nutrition
Calories: 291 kcal · Carbohydrates: 34 g · Protein: 27 g · Fat: 6 g · Saturated Fat: 1 g · Trans Fat: 1 g · Cholesterol: 42 mg · Sodium: 1200 mg · Potassium: 1181 mg · Fiber: 7 g · Sugar: 5 g · Vitamin A: 6145 IU · Vitamin C: 32 mg · Calcium: 155 mg · Iron: 6 mg
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Yummy! This looks so delicious! pinning it!
I wanted to let you know I made this for dinner tonight and we LOVED it! We’re all recovering from a nasty cold virus, so this really hit the spot. I didn’t change a thing (that NEVER happens, btw) and I had it on the table in under 45 minutes. I served it with homemade rolls and honey butter. My family acted like I’d made a feast. 🙂 Thanks!!
Angie, thank you so much for your kind words!!! We appreciate it so much and we are so happy to hear that you loved it! 🙂
can you freeze this?
Sounds delish!! Do you know how many servings this makes? Trying to figure out the calorie count (5 pounds to go until I book a cruise to celebrate my weight loss!)
8 servings for this recipe.
Made this tonight and it was so good. My husband said it was one of his favorite soups and our 2 year old slurped up the spinach like crazy! I did make one change. I used ground chicken since I already had that in our freezer. Turned out great! Thanks for a great recipe.
when do you add the noodles?
oh nevermind!! they’re supposed to be cooked already!
I COOKED THIS FOR MY FAMILY LAST NIGHT AND THEY LOVED IT. MY HUSBAND IS DIABETIC AND GOT A BAD REPORT FROM HIS DOCTOR, SO WE ARE TRYING TO EAT HEALTHY AND CUT BACK ON THE FAT GRAMS. I WILL BE LOOKING FOR MORE RECIPES TO HELP WITH THIS. THANKS FOR THIS ONE.
Just had to let you know I made this and my family LOVED it. And I love all the veggies they ended eating. I used grounded turkey and gluten free pasta.
I tripled the recipe and they tore it Up! Thank You!
Made this tonight and it was great! I just used regular spaghetti and forgot to add the parmesan on top but it was an easy meal!
My husband and I love this soup. We often make it on the weekend and then take it for lunches each day at work with a side salad. It’s quick, easy and so delicious! Thanks so much for sharing. We have probably made it 6 times since discovering it in the fall!
Great recipe. I added extra tomatoes and spinach and a sprinkle of red pepper flakes and cayenne peppers. I don’t do spicy foods but the splash I added helped the recipe go from blandish to perfect. Great recipe
My husband is extremely picky, so when he compliments a recipe, I know it’s something special. I just had to share how delicious this was!