Turtle soup
Turtle soup recipe in the soup category
Recipe ingredients:
- 1 pound turtle meat, cut into 1-inch cubes
- 1 cup shortening
- 1 cup diced onions
- 1 cup diced celery
- 7 cloves garlic, chopped
- 1 cup flour
- 1/2 teaspoon Tabasco sauce
- 3 to 4 quarts water
- 1/4 cup beef stock concentrate
- 2 teaspoons celery salt
- 4 bay leaves
- 12 whole cloves
- 1 (16 ounce) can tomato sauce
- 1 teaspoon thyme
- 1/2 cup chopped parsley
- 1/2 cup Worcestershire sauce
- Salt and pepper, to taste
- Sherry (optional)
- Lemons, thinly sliced (optional)
- Hardboiled eggs, chopped (optional)
Recipe method:
- Saute turtle meat in shortening until very brown.
- Add onions, celery and garlic.
- Cook for 10 minutes. Blend in flour, and cook 5 minutes.
- Add Tabasco sauce, water, beef stock and then all other ingredients.
- Simmer 2 to 3 hours or until meat is tender.
- Garnish each serving with 1 tablespoon sherry, hardboiled eggs, or lemon slices, if desired.
- Better made ahead of time.
- Freezes well.
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