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Why You’ll Love My Recipe
This is a great way to make something delicious from an inexpensive ingredient. It’s hearty, filling, and the perfect comfort food for a colder day.
The whole family will love this one, and they won’t even notice that you have used ground turkey instead of ground beef for the meat!
Just when I thought I couldn’t love a soup more than my Creamy Mushroom Ravioli Soup, I made this one. This is an excellent recipe for those of you who are looking to eat a little less red meat and make a soup using ground turkey instead of ground beef.
Karlynn’s Recipe Notes
Skill Level – This is a very easy soup to make because it’s typically done in the slow cooker.
Total Time – 6-8 hours in the slow cooker, with about 15 minutes of prep time.
Variations – Use whole wheat noodles – or pasta that is enriched with extra vitamins or minerals- instead of standard ones and perhaps add a few chopped up carrots and celery and add some nutritious vegetables to the soup.
This Turkey Soup is so Delicious!
I honestly don’t know which one I love more now. My original beef and tomato macaroni soup is so unique that it is still in my top five soups of all time, and I will most likely never leave those ranks.
This soup, however, has an excellent new taste and is lighter, thanks to the turkey. If you used whole wheat macaroni, I would consider it almost entirely guilt-free.
Meat Variations
You can try many different variations with this recipe to change things up. That’s what makes it so good. Here are a few options to consider:
- Ground beef instead of turkey is the classic taste, feel free to use it if you want!
- You can add ground Italian sausage for flavor; perhaps you can do a mix of ground turkey and Italian sausage for a delicious taste boost but still loads of protein thanks to the ground turkey.
- Ground chicken also works if you don’t have turkey handy and want to use some up.
Bread Pairings
Buns and cornbread also go very well with this soup as well. Try something like my Buttermilk Cornbread or perhaps Old-Fashioned Southern Honey Butter Rolls as a great pairing.
How to Make This Soup
This is a brief overview of the recipe. The full list of ingredients and step-by-step instructions are in the recipe card below.
- Fry the turkey in a skillet until brown, then drain the grease and add to the slow cooker.
- Fry the onions and garlic in the same skillet until browned and fragrant, then add to the slow cooker.
- Add everything but the pasta and cook for 6-8 hours on low. In the last 30 minutes, add in the pasta and cook until tender. Serve.
This is also the perfect soup to warm your soul and belly at the end of a miserable winter day. Or even the end of a sunny Phoenix day for me. There’s something about a tomato and macaroni soup that can’t be beaten!
Storage Instructions
This soup will last in a covered container in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. You can freeze it, but make sure to read my posts about freezing cream-based soups!
Love you more than chocolate,
Karlynn
Happy Cooking, everyone!
Italian Turkey Macaroni Soup (Slumgullion)
Ingredients
- 1 pound one ground turkey
- ½ large white onion diced
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 28 ounces diced tomatoes
- ½ cup ketchup
- 4 cups strong chicken broth
- 1 ½ tablespoons Italian seasoning
- 1 cup macaroni noodles, uncooked
Instructions
- Fry the turkey in a skillet until browned and no pink remains. Drain and place into a crockpot.
- Fry the onions until translucent; add the garlic and cook for 2-3 minutes until browned. Add to crockpot.
- Combine the rest of the ingredients (excepting the macaroni) in the crockpot.
- Cook on low for 6-8 hours.
- Around 30-45 minutes before serving, add in the macaroni. Cook in crockpot until tender.
- Serve and enjoy.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Nancy says
I am liking this because my son has alpha-gal. I swap out beef for chicken and turkey.
Zoe Berreth says
Could I make this soup with cooked leftover turkey?
Karlynn J says
Yes just add it at
The end!
Heather Pollock says
Yummmm I loooove soup\U0001f606especially on rainy days like today\U0001f44d
Cynthia Ann Kupiec says
Stop it…I’m starving right now.