Food & Recipes

Homemade Turkey Consommé

A down-home thanksgiving consommé

Consommé is one of Caitlin’s all time favorite comfort foods and I am wiling to guess that this homemade turkey consommé might just become one of your new favorite homemade comfort foods. Serve this turkey consommé in a shot glass as an appetizer before a delicious fall inspired meal of Roasted Chicken with Apple Butter, Sweet Potato Dauphinois, and an Apple Tarte Tatin to complete the meal.

cooking information

• Yield: 8-10 Entrée servings
• Prep Time: 30 Minutes
• Cooking Time: 2 Hours

all ingredients

• 10 16-ounces cans turkey broth
• 2 lbs ground turkey
• 1 large white onion
• 2 large carrots
• 3 stalks celery
• 4 whole plum tomatoes
• 6 egg whites
• 3 dried bay leaves

recipe instruction

1. In a large sauce pot, empty all the broth into the pot. Turn to medium high heat.

2. Now prepare your vegetables. Roughly chop your onions, peel and chop your carrots, chop the celery, and cut the top and bottom off of the tomatoes and roughly chop.

3. Add all the vegetables to a food processor and blend together until a fine blend. Place the vegetable concoction in a large mixing bowl.

4. Combine your blended vegetables with your ground turkey and egg whites. Mix together until a uniform consistency.

5. Once your broth has been brought to a boil add your ground turkey mixture in handfuls at a time and your bay leaves. Lower the heat to medium low to simmer.

6. Allow your broth to simmer for at least 2 hours.

7. While the broth is simmering, create a hole in the middle of the ground turkey “raft” to allow the liquid to cook through all of the meat.

8. After the broth has reduced by about a third and the meat is fully cooked and floating on the top, drain the broth of the cooked meat. (You will need to use a fine sieve to remove all of the fine particles. If you don’t own a fine sieve you can substitute a colander and just place a damp paper cloth on top. )

9. Place your cleared broth back in the pot, warm, serve and enjoy!

cooking tips

• Stock is water + vegetables + bones, broth has meat and bones + water + vegetables, consommé is a fortified broth which just means it has added meat flavor boiled into it.
• If you can’t find turkey broth you can always substitute chicken broth. You can always make various flavors of consommé substituting the broth flavors and the ground meat to compliment it.
• If you have extra you can always freeze in an ice cube trays and add it to soups or sauces.