Turkey meatball and Bokchoy soup

Having some left over frozen turkey stock from my last turkey I made I wanted to make a riff on a chicken bokchoy soup.  

Ingredients:

• Bag of baby Bokchoy from local farmer (any Bokchoy is great.  I prefer the smaller ones, but even a large one cut up will be great.  )
• 2 lbs ground turkey meat
• Szechuan pepper salt blend
• Turkey stock (prefer home made myself, local farmer sells parts like back/wings great for making stock if you haven't made turkey recently)
• Soy sauce
• 1 chicken egg
• GF breadcrumbs

Instructions:

• Making the meatballs:
• Mix the ground turkey, egg, breadcrumbs, and Szechuan salt blend until balls can be formed.   The mixture if you grab handful will stick together when you try and lift handful from rest of bowl.  
• Bring a tablespoon of coconut oil to heat in a deep soup pot (8 quart usually good)
• Place the turkey meatballs at bottom spaced out so you have room to roll them.  You may need to do multiple batches.  Brown/sear the balls.  
• Add the stock and cook for 20 minutes.  
• Add the Bokchoy and cook for 2-4 minutes and serve with a touch of soy sauce and enjoy.  

Simple Turkey soup

The farmer I buy the majority of my meat from had a special going on Turkey thighs, which are larger then chicken thighs. Since it was raining all weekend here I decided a good soup was what the day called for.

Ingredients:

• 2 Turkey thighs
• 3 stalks of celery
• 1 carrot
• 1/2 yellow onion
• 2 cups concentrated turkey stock from last years Thanksgiving turkey.
• 4 russet potatoes rough chopped

Instructions:

• Place the turkey thighs in about 6 cups of water and low boil for 1 hour
• Add the celery, carrot, onion, and the previously made stock and low boil for another hour
• Fish out celery, carrot, onion, and turkey thighs.
• Place the rough chopped potatoes in the stock and low boil for 20-30 minutes until potatoes fall apart to touch.   Sample stock and salt to taste if needed.
• While the potatoes are cooking, mince the turkey thighs by removing the skin and pulling apart the meat into thin strips for the soup.  Ensure skin and bones are not in the meat.
• Once potatoes are done cooking add the meat back in.
• Serve and Enjoy.

Turkey olive burgers

I love turkey burgers, but by the nature of turkey mostly come out dry and tasteless unless you work with the flavorings a bit.   This is especially true while making the recipe GF.   The canned sliced olives and a touch of the sauce they were canned/pickled in adds some moisture as well as some flavors that compliment the turkey meat.
 

Ingredients:

• 1 lb ground turkey
• Cambridshire seasoning salt 
• 1 egg
• GF breadcrumbs to consistency
• 1 small can of sliced black or green olives

Instructions:

• Mix all ingredients well.  Mixture should stick together when lifted. 
• Put in frig for 30 min give time to make proper consistency. 
• With 1 tablespoon coconut oil, cook 4-5 minutes per side in pan
• Serve and enjoy