Filed under: Cooking
Ingredients:
One roasting pan
One turkey carcass
Water or white wine (enough to cover entire bottom of roasting pan to a depth of ~ 1.5-2 cm)
Water - one metric shit tonne
Veg mix (one part of each onion, carrot and celery) - to taste
Salt (optional) - to taste
Other seasonings (optional) - to taste
Steps
Don’t wash your roasting pan after you cook turkey!
When you’re ready to start your soup, put the roasting pan on a burner and add enough white wine or water to cover the bottom of the roasting pan to a depth of about 1 cm.
Turn the heat up to high. As it starts to heat up, scrape the bottom of the roasting pan with a spatula. Clean the bottom of the roaster and scrape off the sides until the liquid hits boiling. The cleaner the roasting pan, the better the stock. So your focus should be on cleaning the roasting pan, the stock is just a delicious byproduct of the cleaning process.
When the liquid starts to boil, add your veg mix and keep scraping the bottom and sides of the roasting pan.
Your roasting pan should be clean by the time the onions turn translucent. Add the entire turkey carcass. Organs are optional. As you add the turkey carcass, move it around a little and try to compact it down with the spatula.
Slowly add the metric shit tonne of water. You want to add enough water so that it covers the carcass. Add the water slowly enough that it never stops boiling. And keep adding until the carcass is submerged in about two to three inches of water.
Curse your luck for following a stupid recipe that makes you add so much water so slowly. Contact me and call me an asshole.
When the turkey is submerged in about an inch of water, turn the heat down so it settles into a slow simmer. Add seasonings and any aromatics. Our turkey carcasses usually start with a lot of stuffing so I just add black peppercorns and parsley. But have fun with this and make the stock your own.
Simmer for four hours.
Curse your luck for following a stupid recipe that makes you simmer something for four hours after eating a turkey. If you haven’t already, contact me and call me an asshole.