The Fair Trade Cook Book
The FAIRTRADE COOKBOOK
Fair Trade Recipes for a Fairer World

Turkey Soup

A hearty American winter soup with turkey and fair trade rice.
This is a traditional after-Thanksgiving soup, and a great way to use up turkey leftovers. The bacon can be the strips used for protecting the breast meat whilst the turkey was cooking.
It is filling winter soup, suitable as a main course, especially when served with hunks of fresh bread.

Ingredients

1.5 litres	chicken broth
100 gm	uncooked FAIRTRADE rice
1	medium onion
120 gm	margarine
75 gm	plain flour
5 ml	salt
to taste	fresh ground FAIRTRADE black pepper
500 ml	milk
500 gm	cooked turkey or chicken
8 to 10	slices of crispy bacon
100 ml	FAIRTRADE red wine
FAIRTRADE	Sources Rice Wine Herbs and Spices

Method

Preparation. Top, tail, peel and chop fine the onion.
Cube the poultry, and break the bacon into small (1 cm) pieces.

Cooking. In a large sauce pan combine chicken broth, rice and onions. Bring to the boil, reduce the heat and then simmer for 40 minutes.
In a medium saucepan or Le Creuset skillet melt the margarine. Stir in the flour, salt, and pepper, and cook for 1 minute stirring until smooth and bubbly.
Slowly stir in the milk and cook until slightly thickened.
Carefully stir the milk mixture into the rice mixture, add the turkey and bacon pieces and heat gently, do not boil. Add the red wine to give a little festive colour and aroma.
Check and adjust seasoning.

To serve

Serve hot, with hunks of fresh wholemeal bread.

Variation