I had leftover home made turkey stock and some turkey wings in my freezer that I had to use so I made a turkey soup but flavored like pho. I couldn’t find any recipes on the web for turkey pho but I thought pho flavors would go well with turkey. My recipes for Turkey Stock and Crispy Oven Fried Turkey Wings are posted here on www.TheForkingTruth.com so you can do them if you want but a word of warning that you need a raw turkey carcus to make twelve cups of stock. My idea of serving size might differ from your idea of serving size. For me this makes 4 large dinner servings.

Ingredients for around 4 servings

6 cups turkey stock – preferably home made

14-16oz – pulled turkey meat

1 1/2 lbs – vegetables (cooked and or noodles) I used bok choy and gai lan that II boiled in water with a little sesame oil…I didn’t use any noodles)

1 large sweet onion – sliced paper thin

1/2 teaspoon ground star anise

1/4 teaspoon ground cardamon

2 Tablespoons sugar (I used one T of turbinado and thought that would be enough but it needed another so I added 1 T of white sugar…..depending on sugar you might only need 1)

1 teaspoon ground ginger

1/4 teaspoon ground cloves

1/2 teaspoon ground coriander

1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon ground white pepper

1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper

4 scallions – sliced thin (for serving)

8 sprigs cilantro (for serving)

4 sprigs mint (for serving)

2 jalapeños – sliced (for serving)

2 limes – cut in wedges (for serving)

fish sauce (for serving)

hoisin (for serving)

chili sauce (for serving)

Directions

Put the stock in your sauce pot on medium heat.

Add the star anise, cardamon, sugars, ginger, cloves, coriander, cinnamon, white pepper and black pepper.

You have two choices with the onion. Either you can sauté it and add it to the soup with it starts to turn brown or since it is so thin you can let it cook in the soup and skip cooking it in a pan. You get a slightly different taste depending on what you do. I sort of like the raw onions getting cooked in the soup because they get more fragrant from the spices and the onion taste just goes into the soup. If you sauté the onions the actual onions will taste more oniony. Cooking the onion first is more traditional.

If you have a well made stock your soup is almost done. At this point you take it off the heat and add the pulled turkey. Serve immediately and serve with scallions. cilantro, mint, jalapeños, lime, fish sauce, hoisin and chili sauce.

Enjoy!