Low-Carb Turkey Soup Recipes
Here are my favorite Low-Carb Turkey Soup Recipes, and I love making turkey stock and turkey soup when Thanksgiving is over! You can use leftover turkey in any soup recipe that uses cooked chicken (and vice-versa) so there are some tasty chicken soup recipes here too!
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My favorite after Thanksgiving tradition is making turkey soup, and I love these Low-Carb Turkey Soup Recipes! I’m always hoping I’ll end up with a turkey carbass! If I do, I love simmering that with with veggies to make homemade turkey stock. I enjoy turning the stock into delicious turkey soup!
Your house will smell amazing while the stock simmers, and turkey soup is so satisfying! And of course you can make turkey soup with purchased turkey broth or turkey flavor base.
Today I’m reminding you of these low-carb turkey soup options just in case you have some leftover turkey. Or try some of these tasty soup recipes with chicken if you don’t have any turkey. And there are some options for soup to make with ground turkey too. I hope you enjoy trying some.
Turkey Soup or Chicken Soup?
Any soup recipe made with diced chicken or ground turkey can also be made with leftover turkey! So I’m including some of those in this collection of favorite soups. For the recipes that use cooked chicken, just switch that out for leftover turkey (and use homemade Turkey Stock if you have some) For the soups with ground turkey, check the recipe to see how to substitute.
More ideas for using leftover turkey:
- Check out Low-Carb Recipes for Leftover Turkey to see turkey and chicken casseroles and salads.
- You might like delicious Healthy Recipes for Leftover Turkey if you don’t mind options that are a bit higher in carbs.
The soup I’ve been loving the last few years is this amazing Low-Carb Turkey Soup with Zucchini! You can make this soup with zucchini noodles or small diced pieces of zucchini. And trust me when I say you’ll be amazed at how delicious this is!
Ground Turkey Soup with Mushrooms and Spinach is a long-time favorite soup that’s made with cauliflower rice. There are instructions in the recipe for making this with leftover turkey.
Chicken Tomatillo Soup is a delicious Instant Pot soup made with chicken! Just substitute diced turkey for the chicken to make this for an after-Thanksgiving soup.
This Turkey Rice Soup is a low-carb ground turkey Instant Pot soup with cabbage and cauliflower rice. This soup has traditional turkey-soup flavors; see notes in the recipe to make this with leftover turkey!
Turkey Mushroom Soup with Zucchini is a tasty idea for a soup made with zucchini noodles, or use chopped zucchini. This recipe uses ground turkey, but see the recipe if you’d like to substitute leftover turkey.
Chicken Soup with Collards and Lemon is a tasty soup made with diced chicken, or substitute leftover turkey for the chicken. And if you haven’t tried collard greens in soup, they are so tasty!
I updated this recipe for Turkey Kale Soup with Mushrooms and Butternut Squash to be lower in carbs. (It’s too high in carbs for strict Keto unless you use less butternut squash.) This soup is delicious; see tips for making it would leftover turkey.
This Instant Pot Chicken Tortilla Soup has a lot of fans. See the notes in the post about how to substitute leftover turkey for the chicken. We made tortilla strips with low-carb tortillas, but they’re optional.
You may look at this Chicken Barley Soup and wonder how this can be a low-carb soup! Of course you can switch the chicken turkey. And and there isn’t much barley so this is surprisingly low in net carbs. Or there’s an option for making the soup with frozen cauliflower rice for even fewer carbs!
Slow Cooker Turkey Soup (with Spinach and Lemon) is a favorite turkey soups using leftover turkey! I like using the slow cooker to get those turkey soup smells filling up my house. The original recipe had whole wheat orzo, but see tips for replacing that with cauliflower rice.
Coconut-Lime Turkey Rice Soup is an old recipe, but it’s one of the most unique and tasty turkey soups I’ve made! The recipe has info about switching out brown rice for cauliflower rice to make this a low-carb soup!
