Timber 2 Table - Slow Cooker Turkey Leg Noodle Soup

Wild turkey legs and thighs are the main ingredient in this simply delicious slow cooker noodle soup

Slow Cooker Turkey Leg Noodle Soup


20 Min

Prep Time


360 Min

Cook Time


5-7

Servings


Easy

Difficulty

Everyone loves a good bowl of homemade soup. This slow cooker version is a simple and satisfying way to use the legs and thighs from your wild turkey. You can use either both leg-and-thigh combos from a wild turkey, or, if you cooked our Braised BBQ Wild Turkey Thighs on the grill, just the four leftover legs.

This wild turkey leg noodle soup has all-day slow-cooked flavor without all the work.

You can use skin-on or skinned legs and thighs for this. Leaving the skin on adds flavor to the finished soup, but it does need to be removed when you pick the cooked meat from the bone.

The turkey legs slow-cook until they are fall-off-the-bone tender.

Ingredients

4 wild turkey legs or two leg-thigh combos

Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste

8 cups wild turkey or chicken stock

4 cloves garlic, minced

3 carrots, peeled and sliced

3 stalks celery, diced

1 onion, diced

1-inch stalk of fresh ginger

1 teaspoon dried thyme

1 teaspoon dried rosemary

2 bay leaves

Pinch of red pepper flakes

Juice of 1 lemon

2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley

8 ounces uncooked egg noodles

Cooking Instructions

Recipes don't get much easier than this one for the slow cooker. Start by dicing the vegetables.

Prep the vegetables for the soup.

Season the legs well with salt and pepper, and add all ingredients except for the lemon juice, parsley, and noodles to your slow cooker. Put on the lid, turn it on low, and leave it alone for 6 to 8 hours or until the turkey legs are fall-off-the-bone tender.

Add all ingredients but the lemon juice, pasta, and fresh parsley to the slow cooker.

Use a spoon to skim away any foam that collected on the surface during the cooking process. Once they are tender, gently remove the legs from the pot and allow them to cool enough to shred. Pick the meat from the bones.

Discard any skin and pick the cooked meat from the leg bones.

Return the meat to the pot and discard the bones. Fish out the ginger root and bay leaves and discard. Add the parsley, lemon juice, and noodles, then check the broth for seasoning. Add salt and pepper, as needed. Turn the slow cooker to high and cook for an additional 30 minutes or until the noodles are done.