Ingredients:
1 Turkey carcass 4 qt Water 1 cup Butter or margarine 1 cup All-purpose flour 3 each Onions, chopped 2 large Carrots, diced 2 each Stalks celery, diced 1 cup Long-grain rice, uncooked 2 tsp Salt 3/4 tsp Pepper 2 cup Half-and-Half
Instructions:
Place turkey carcass and water in a large Dutch oven; bring to a boil. Cover, reduce heat, and simmer 1 hour. Remove carcass from broth, and pick meat from bones. Set broth and meat aside. Measure broth; add water if necessary to measure 3 quarts. Heat butter in large Dutch oven; add flour, and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, 5 minutes. (Roux will be a very light color.) Stir onion, carrot and celery into roux; cook over medium heat 10 minutes, stirring ofen. Add broth, turkey, rice, salt, and pepper; bring to a boil. Cover, reduce heat, and simmer 20 minutes or until rice is tender. Add half-and-half, and cook until thoroughly heated.
Yield: 4 1/2 quarts
Recipe from Rhea Hatch in November, 1990 "Southern Living". Typos by Jeff Pruett. Bobbie's Note: I used 2 cups skim milk to reduce fat content. Omitted salt, and pepper. Tasted delicious!
Servings: 5
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