Can I make "chicken" soup out of turkey necks?

The title says it all. I need to make a batch of chicken soup tonight (for a reason I don't want to go through right now but it needs to be ready by tomorrow). Usually I keep chicken carcase and giblets in the freezer but I ran out of it and the closest I can get hold of is a couple of turkey necks. Do you think I can use it like chicken to make soup out of them? They look pretty decent sized, meaty, not fatty at all.

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My mom does that. My siblings who love turkey love it.

Posted: Wed, Jun 17 2009, 6:22 pm Post subject:

My mum used to do it sometimes too. it has a slightly different taste to chicken soup.

So long as it's meaty broth it should do. I thought of adding chicken soup powder but didn't want to add MSG. Thanks both. I'll let you know how it comes out (I'm using a crockpot)...

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No need for chicken soup powder. You can put any meat item in soup for flavor. I sometimes put cubes of beef stew. My mom also puts lamb sometimes...Any meat or poultry will do.

Posted: Wed, Jun 17 2009, 8:47 pm Post subject:

You can put whatever you want, but my mother has been turkey necks exclusively for soup & cholent for as long as I can remember. You can mix chicken, turkey, a piece of beef kalachel is yummy int he soup. YUM and send me some.
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Platinum Member Joined: Mar 07 2007 Posts: 10429

well, yes, you can make soup from turkey necks, but then it's turkey soup, not "chicken" soup. The taste is decidedly different. Why be coy about it? Turkey soup is just as good as chicken soup, only different.

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the necks are pretty fatty. keep that in mind.

Posted: Wed, Jun 17 2009, 9:41 pm Post subject:

ewwww my cousin once offered to make chicken neck soup with pupiks ... Puke

we decidedly and unanimously said NO thanks - we'll make you soup ... I cannot tell you where my mind went - but it went places ...
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Posted: Wed, Jun 17 2009, 9:43 pm Post subject:

You can but it will taste a little different.
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delicious!
its time you expanded your cooking repotoire, sweetie!

I almost always make my chicken soup this way. Sometimes I add chicken necks as well, and often I take the meat off the bones and add it back in.
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Posted: Thu, Jun 18 2009, 9:21 am Post subject:

My family LOVES turkey neck-veggie soup!
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Thanks everyone. In the end, the soup came out nicely though agree it has distinctly different colour and flavour from the usual chicken soup. it came out more like a cross between chicken soup and what we call beef tea made from shin of beef (that's yum, too). I actually like it better because it's far less fatty (yes the one I get here comes without skin or blobs of fats) and there's so much meat around the bone.

Take the skin off, it will be fine and delicious.
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This is the base of my mother's typical Y"T soup and it's delicious!
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Reviving this thread because Thanksgiving is next week in the US and I make stock out of the turkey neck and wing tips to use in my justifiably-famous gravy. I also repurpose the carcass for soup after I've carved all the meat off (usually the carcass is broken up and stashed in a freezer bag till I'm ready to fill the house with soup-y goodness)

I often use the chicken from the soup, separating it from the bone and then putting the skin and bones into the soup. Comes out delicious.

When I was little we used to have turkey neck soup quite often, we called it slug soup because the turkey necks looked like big slugs....despite the term it was always yummy!