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Instant Pot Turkey Rice Soup is a tasty low-carb soup with cabbage and cauliflower rice that’s loaded with flavor and nutritious ingredients. We used frozen cauliflower rice, but see suggestions for using cooked wild rice or cooked white rice for this tasty soup with ground turkey and cabbage if you prefer. 

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Instant Pot Turkey Rice Soup with Cabbage finished soup in serving bowls

This delicious Instant Pot Turkey Rice Soup is a new recipe that’s an updated version of a Turkey Soup that’s no longer on the blog. (Anyone who was a fan of that earlier soup can find the printer-friendly recipe by clicking that link.) I’m having fun improving some of my older soup recipes, and the older version of this soup was made on the stove, had chopped leftover turkey and wild rice, and was much higher in carbs than this new version. 

And I think turkey soup is too tasty to only make at Thanksgiving time, so this delicious Turkey and Rice soup that’s made in the Instant Pot uses ground turkey (or leftover turkey), chopped cabbage, chicken stock with some turkey soup base for added flavor, and frozen cauliflower rice, and you can enjoy this tasty soup all winter long!

Kara and I absolutely loved this when we tested the recipe, and I enjoyed it again when I pulled a container out of the freezer when I needed a quick dinner. And please eat this soup with coarsely grated Parmesan cheese if you possibly can!

What ingredients do you need for this recipe:

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Can you use leftover turkey for this Turkey Rice Soup?

If you’d like to make this soup with leftover turkey, follow instructions in the recipe for adding the leftover turkey later in the recipe so it doesn’t shred apart in the Instant Pot.

How low in carbs is the Turkey Rice Soup?

This delicious Instant Pot Soup with ground turkey, cabbage, and cauliflower rice only has about 7 net carbs per serving.

What Size Instant Pot Did I Use?

I use a 6 Quart Instant Pot (affiliate link) for all my Pressure Cooker or Instant Pot Recipes! You can find more Instant Pot Recipes on my other site, Slow Cooker or Pressure Cooker.

Want more tasty soups like this one?

Check out Low-Carb and Keto Soups with Cauliflower Rice or Low-Carb and Keto Soups with Cabbage to find more tasty soup recipes like this one.
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How to Make Instant Pot Turkey Rice Soup:

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  1. I used Butterball ground turkey from Costco that comes in 1 1/2 pound packs, and using that much turkey gave lots of turkey flavor.
  2. Heat oil in the Instant Pot on SAUTE, HIGH.
  3. Add turkey and cook until it’s nicely browned, breaking turkey apart and scraping the bottom a few times with a plastic turner. 
  4. Season the cooked turkey with a little salt and fresh-ground black pepper.
  5. (To make this with leftover turkey, chop up about 3-4 cups leftover turkey. Don’t add to the Instant Pot until later.)
  6. While turkey cooks chop the onion, chop the celery, and slice and coarsely chop the cabbage. 
  7. Remove turkey to a bowl, and heat a few teaspoons more olive oil in the Instant Pot.
  8. Add onion, celery, cabbage, garlic, Spike Seasoning (affiliate link), and Poultry Seasoning (affiliate link) and cook five minutes, stirring a few times. (Oops, didn’t take a photo of that cooking.)
  9. Add cooked turkey back into the pot.
  10. Add chicken broth, plus 2 T Penzeys Turkey Soup Base. (Or use Homemade Turkey Stock if you have some!)
  11. Set Instant Pot to MANUAL, HIGH, 10 minutes cooking time. (If you’re making this with leftover turkey, just cook the broth mixture 5 minutes.)
  12. While soup cooks, take cauliflower rice out of the freezer and break apart, or if you have a big package measure out 2 cups frozen cauliflower rice.
  13. When time is up use NATURAL RELEASE for ten minutes; then release the rest of the pressure.
  14. Add cauliflower rice to the pot. (You can use 1 1/2 cup cooked wild rice or 1 1/2 cups cooked long-grain rice if you don’t want to use cauliflower rice.)
  15. (If you’re making the soup with leftover turkey, add that now.)
  16. Set Instant Pot to SAUTE, MEDIUM, and cook the soup about 10 minutes or until the cauliflower rice seems done.
  17. Check for seasoning and add a little more salt and fresh ground black pepper if you want it.
  18. Stir in the balsamic vinegar and serve hot, with coarsely-grated Parmesan cheese to add at the table if desired.

Instant Pot Turkey Rice Soup with Cabbage in two soup bowls with Parmesan

Want More Turkey Soup Ideas?

Check out Low-Carb and Keto Turkey Soup Recipes for lots more ideas for tasty soups with turkey, chicken, or ground turkey! 

More Tasty Recipes with Ground Turkey:

Weekend Food Prep:

This Instant Pot Turkey Rice Soup recipe has been added to a category called Weekend Food Prep to help you find recipes you can prep or cook on the weekend and eat during the week!

Instant Pot Turkey Rice Soup with Cabbage finished soup in serving bowls
Yield: 8 servings

Instant Pot Turkey Rice Soup

Prep Time 25 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Additional Time 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes

We loved this Instant Pot Turkey Rice Soup, and this is especially good topped with coarsely-grated Parmesan cheese!

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 lbs. ground turkey
  • 1 T + 2 tsp. olive oil
  • 1 cup finely diced onion
  • 1 cup finely diced celery
  • 2 cups finely chopped cabbage
  • 1 T minced garlic
  • 2 tsp. Spike Seasoning (see notes)
  • 2 tsp. Poultry Seasoning
  • 8 cups chicken broth (see notes)
  • 2 T Turkey Soup Base (see notes)
  • 2 cups frozen cauliflower rice (see notes)
  • 2 T balsamic vinegar

Instructions

  1. Heat oil in the Instant Pot on SAUTE, HIGH.
  2. Add the ground turkey and cook until the turkey is nicely browned, breaking turkey apart and scraping the bottom a few times with a plastic turner. This will take about 10 minutes.
  3. Season the cooked turkey with a little salt and fresh-ground black pepper.
  4. While turkey cooks chop the onion, chop the celery, and slice and coarsely chop the cabbage.
  5. Remove turkey to a bowl, and heat a few teaspoons more olive oil in the Instant Pot.
  6. (To make this with leftover turkey, chop up about 3-4 cups leftover turkey. Don't add to the Instant Pot until later.)
  7. Add onion, celery, cabbage, garlic, Spike Seasoning (affiliate link) or other all-purpose seasoning blend, and Poultry Seasoning (affiliate link) and cook five minutes, stirring a few times.
  8. Add the cooked turkey back into the pot and stir to combine with vegetables.
  9. Add the chicken broth, plus 2 T Penzeys Turkey Soup Base. (Or if you're lucky enough to have some Homemade Turkey Stock, by all means use that!)
  10. Set Instant Pot to MANUAL, HIGH, 10 minutes cooking time.
  11. While soup cooks, take the cauliflower rice out of the freezer and break it apart, or if you have a big package measure out 2 cups frozen cauliflower rice.
  12. When time is up use NATURAL RELEASE for ten minutes; then release the rest of the pressure.
  13. Add cauliflower rice to the pot. (You can use 1 1/2 cup cooked wild rice or 1 1/2 cups cooked long-grain rice if you don't want to use cauliflower rice.)
  14. (If you're making the soup with leftover turkey, add that now.)
  15. Set Instant Pot to SAUTE, MEDIUM, and cook the soup about 10 minutes or until the cauliflower rice seems done.
  16. Check for seasoning and add a little more salt and fresh ground black pepper if you want it.
  17. Stir in the balsamic vinegar and serve hot, with coarsely-grated Parmesan cheese to add at the table if desired.

Notes

I'm a big fan of Spike Seasoning (affiliate link) but use any all-purpose seasoning blend if you don't have Spike. You can use chicken stock, but if you have some homemade Turkey Stock that will make the soup even better. Penzeys Turkey Soup Base is the brand I have recommended for years. The turkey soup base is probably optional but recommended. Use another brand of turkey flavor base if that's what you have.

We used a 10 oz. package of cauliflower rice, which was 2 cups. You can also use 1 1/2 cups cooked wild rice or 1 1/2 cups cooked long grain white rice if you prefer that.

Recipe created by Kalyn and Kara and inspired by an old recipe for Turkey and Wild Rice Soup.

Nutrition Information

Yield

8

Serving Size

1
Amount Per Serving Calories 282Total Fat 17gSaturated Fat 4gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 10gCholesterol 95mgSodium 1413mgCarbohydrates 9gFiber 2gSugar 5gProtein 25g

Nutrition information is automatically calculated by the Recipe Plug-In I am using. I am not a nutritionist and cannot guarantee 100% accuracy, since many variables affect those calculations.

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© Kalyn Denny
Category: Instant Pot
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Low-Carb Diet / Low-Glycemic Diet / South Beach Diet Suggestions:
This Turkey Rice Soup with cauliflower rice will be suitable for low-carb or Keto diet plans, or for any phase of the original South Beach Diet.

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Historical Notes for this Recipe:
This recipe was first posted in 2008 as a higher-carb version made with rice. The new recipe for Instant Pot Turkey Rice Soup (with cauliflower rice) was posted in 2020. The recipe was last updated with more information in 2024.

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