Turkey Wild Rice Soup--Charity Style!

Have you figured out what my style is yet? Turkey Wild Rice Soup--Charity Style means of course--no turkey or wild rice! Ha ha! I used chicken and plain old brown rice, but this soup was still a hit with my family. I made homemade wheat rolls to go with it and it seriously tasted like biscuits and gravy with chicken instead of sausage. It had a few steps, but they were easy steps. The soup was creamy and I will definitely add this to my "make again" list. I thought it was filling enough with the rolls and a salad, but I did worry that the missionaries left a little bit hungry.

I'm sorry I don't have any pictures of it. Since we had the missionaries over for dinner and in the rush to get everything ready I forgot to take a picture. There were no left overs so I will take a picture next time and add it to the post.

Ingredients:
3 (10 1/2 ounces) cans chicken broth
2 cups water
1/2 cup finely chopped green onions (I used about 1/4 cup chopped yellow onion)
1/2 cup uncooked wild rice (brown rice)
8 slices bacon (I completely omitted, I image we would have died from the perfection of the added bacon!)
1/2 cup margarine
3/4 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon poultry seasoning
1/8 teaspoon pepper
2 cups half and half
1 1/2 cups cooked, diced turkey (or chicken)

1. In a large pot over medium heat, combine chicken broth, water, chopped onion and rice. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and let simmer for 35 to 40 minutes until rice is tender.

2. If using bacon, cook it until crisp while the rice is cooking. When the bacon is crisp, let it cool, crumble and set aside. This is when I cooked my chicken. I pan fried it in a little olive oil sprinkled with salt.

3. In a medium saucepan (I actually used the same skillet that I cooked my chicken in--it has high straight sides) over medium heat, place margarine. Add flour, salt, poultry seasoning and pepper and mix well. Cook, stirring frequently until bubbly and smooth. Stir in half and half and cook until thickened about 2 minutes. YES! You are making gravy to put in the soup! This is why it tastes so yummy.

4. Add the gravy, crumbled bacon, and diced turkey to rice mixture and cook until heated through.

Makes 9 servings