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This ground turkey soup is simple to make, inexpensive, healthy, and comforting. Pasta and beans make this brothy soup extra filling!
Try my Ground Turkey Stir Fry or Creamy Chicken Potato Soup next.
I’ve wanted to make a ground turkey vegetable soup for a while now, and I like the way it turned out. It’s got chicken soup vibes, but obviously with turkey. Ground turkey is so easy to prepare, and it’s not the first thing most people think to add to soup, so I wanted to give you guys another option if it’s something you enjoy and/or regularly buy.
You may also like my Lemon Chicken Orzo Soup if you’re into these kinda flavors.
This healthy ground turkey soup is the type of soup that’s easy to whip up on a busy weeknight, and it’s also good for if anyone in your home is feeling under the weather.
Recipe notes & tips:
- The measurements in this soup are very forgiving. Feel free to throw in a bit extra/less depending on what you’ve got on hand.
- You could use ground chicken instead of turkey if you prefer.
- You can swap the pasta with a different shape if you like.
- Use kale or Swiss Chard instead of spinach if that’s what you’ve got in your fridge.
- The lemon juice can be omitted or doubled/tripled depending on how much lemon flavor you want in the soup.
- If you’re freezing the bulk of this recipe (or making it a day or two ahead), I suggest adding the pasta in after you’ve thawed it/when you’re reheating it. The leftovers really soak up the broth.
More tasty ground turkey recipes:
- Turkey White Bean Chili
- Easy Ground Turkey Burgers Recipe
- Ground Turkey Stir Fry
- Turkey Pumpkin Chili
Love ground turkey? Check out my roundup for The Best Ground Turkey Recipes.
Will you give this ground turkey soup recipe a try? Questions? Leave me a comment below! As always, tag me #saltandlavender on Instagram if you’ve made one of my recipes.
Ground Turkey Soup
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 sticks celery chopped finely
- 1/2 medium onion chopped
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 1 dash Italian seasoning
- 1 pound ground turkey
- 1 (14 fluid ounce) can white beans (cannellini) drained
- 2 medium carrots sliced
- 4 cups chicken broth
- 1 cup water
- 1.5 cups uncooked fusilli pasta
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice or more, to taste
- 2 cups (packed) fresh baby spinach
- Salt & pepper to taste
Instructions
- Add the oil, celery, and onion to a soup pot over medium-high heat, and sauté for 4-5 minutes (ok if the onion starts to brown a little).
- Stir in the garlic and Italian seasoning and cook for 30 seconds.
- Add in the ground turkey and cook until it's mostly turned white, breaking it up with your spoon as it cooks (about 4-5 minutes). I prep the other ingredients while I go along, but feel free to prep everything before you begin if that's easier.
- Add in the beans, carrots, broth, and water. Increase the heat to high and bring it to a boil. Cover the pot with the lid slightly ajar and reduce the heat & simmer for 10 minutes.
- Add in the pasta, cover the pot again (lid slightly ajar), and cook for another 10 minutes. I stir it a couple of times just to ensure the pasta isn't sticking to the bottom.
- Add in the lemon juice (add more if you like it really lemony) and spinach. Cook it for a couple more minutes until the spinach wilts. Season with salt & pepper as needed. This soup soaks up the broth pretty fast, so feel free to add more chicken broth/water as needed (especially when reheating leftovers).
Notes
- Serves 4-6 depending on how much people eat.
- You can use 5 cups chicken broth (vs. 4 cups broth and 1 cup water) if you want. I just do this because the 32 oz/4 cup cartons of broth are handy, and that way you don't need to open a second one if you don't want to.
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Nutrition
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I swapped the turkey for beef, the fusili for broken up lasagna strips, and Paleo seasoning for the italian spice. I added dried rosemary, turmeric, and then ACV at the end. It turned out delicious! I loved that it used basically everything I had on hand or could easily swap with something, and came together fairly quickly. Delicious and satisfying for the sinus infection I’m nursing. Thank you!
You are very welcome! Hope you feel better soon!!
Holy Smokey’s this soup is BOMB! I didn’t have spinach so I substituted kale. I also added some mushrooms and used chicken bone broth. Seasoned the turkey with lemon pepper instead of Italian
Thanks so much, Michelle!
I sub in soup vegs and it was just right, alight pasta meal
My daughter just did a four day track in Tasmania and come home with a massive cold. I made the soup for her and she absolutely loved it and enjoyed it for the past two days. Thank you very much lovely recipe.
Aww you’re very welcome, Sandra! Hope she feels better soon!
So goooood!!! I’ve made this multiple times… delicious. 🫶🥣
Wonderful!! Thanks so much, Kate!
I was looking for a soup I could make with what I had left in the refrigerator and the pantry. I’m glad I stopped on your recipe as it was just what I was looking for. I added more Italian Seasoning and also added chicken broth base to my one cup of water. I only added 1 cup of the noodles that I had on hand as I didn’t want too much of the broth to be soaked up by the pasta. Other than that I left it as was written. It was very flavorful and healthy and quick to make.
So glad it worked out for you, Laurie!! 😀 Appreciate you taking the time to write me a review.
Excellent Taste / Husband said best soup he ever ate in his life and he is 85 Today is 2/17/202
4 big stars if I can give you 10 starts I would .
I’m thrilled it was a hit, Judith!! 😀 Thanks for your review.
My wife is feeling “under the weather”, so I decided I should make her soup. I am NOT the greatest cook, but can follow a recipe, and when looking for a soup recipe I thought I could handle, found this delight. Purchased ingredients on my way home from work, made exactly as specified, and my wife loved, loved, loved this. So did I. Thank you so much for this healthy, delicious wonder! — Eric
I’m thrilled to hear that, Eric!! Hope she will feel better soon. 🙂