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**Dawgluver** · 12-10-2011, 02:59 PM

Smoked Turkey Wild Rice Black Bean Soup

Ingredients

1 Greenberg smoked turkey leg and thigh (or other smoked turkey)
1 15 oz can diced tomatoes
2 qt chicken stock ( I used 1 qt homemade and 1 qt Kirkland)
½ c. each chopped onion, carrot, celery ( I prechop and freeze a big bag)
1 lg bayleaf
Several sprigs fresh thyme or 1/2 t. dried
Fresh ground pepper to taste
1 c. precooked wild rice
1 can black beans, rinsed and drained

Directions

Put everything except wild rice and beans into large saucepot. Bring to boil. Turn down heat and simmer 2 hours.

Take out turkey, cool, and strip meat. Chop and add back to pot along with wild rice and beans. Heat and serve.

CWS4322 · 12-10-2011, 03:10 PM

YUM!!! But then anything with wild rice is GOOD!

**Dawgluver** · 12-10-2011, 03:37 PM

Thanks, CWS! DH is now a confirmed fan of wild rice.

Your previous link, that's the Native American wild harvested, right?

**PrincessFiona60** · 12-10-2011, 04:15 PM

Yummy, yummy, sounds good for my tummy!

**Dawgluver** · 12-10-2011, 04:38 PM

Thanks, PF! I usually only eat white meat, it's a great way to hide the dark meat from myself. And I don't tell me.

**Zhizara** · 12-10-2011, 04:50 PM

That sounds great CWS! I don't have smoked turkey, but I have tons of leftover turkey to use up. I've also got about a cup of Lundgren's wild rice and brown rices. I also have a can of black beans I didn't know what to do with. Everything but thyme, probably some Italian seasoning or poultry seasoning both of which I think have some thyme in them.

**Dawgluver** · 12-10-2011, 05:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zhizara

That sounds great CWS! I don't have smoked turkey, but I have tons of leftover turkey to use up. I've also got about a cup of Lundgren's wild rice and brown rices. I also have a can of black beans I didn't know what to do with. Everything but thyme, probably some Italian seasoning or poultry seasoning both of which I think have some thyme in them.

In that case, I wouldn't boil, just simmer. Keep tasting.

The smoked turkey put this over the top!

CWS4322 · 12-10-2011, 05:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dawgluver

Thanks, CWS! DH is now a confirmed fan of wild rice.

Your previous link, that's the Native American wild harvested, right?

Yup--but why did it take him so LONG? Oh, the decade that the wild rice aged at the back of the cupboard...like wine?

CWS4322 · 12-10-2011, 05:32 PM

If you don't have thyme, basil works.

CWS4322 · 12-10-2011, 05:34 PM

It was Dawglover who came up with this recipe--not me. And Lindgren's blend is cultivated--it doesn't have the smokey flavor that hand-parched natural wild rice has.I am just the person who grew up eating wild rice instead of potatoes!