Smoked Turkey Chowder Recipe

This Smoked Turkey Chowder Recipe is perfect for using up any leftover smoked turkey! Personally, I am a firm believer if you smoke meat do enough to have leftovers for more dishes.  While leftover turkey is amazing as a sandwich I l love to make whole meals out of it as well.

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Being a midwest man I grew up with most meals cooked on Cast Iron.  As I have gotten older I find myself gravitating towards the cast iron more often.   In addition to loving cast iron, I use my  Pit Boss Pro 1100 as more of a convection oven.

Soups, beans, and stews are always my favorite dinner in the fall and winter months but the smoker gives the bonus of smoke flavor, as well as slow-cooked tenderness. I picked up my Pit Boss Grill at Lowes, but Walmart and Amazon carry other Pit Boss options or the Pitboss website. 

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Smoked Turkey Chowder Ingredients:

• Smoked Turkey Shredded
• Baby Potatoes
• Chicken Broth
• Corn– You can use frozen or canned corn in this recipe; I used canned corn for mine.
• Celery
• Onion– You can use purple onion or yellow onion in this recipe it comes down to personal taste preference for the onion.
• Thyme 
• Minced Garlic
• Fresh Ground Garlic Salt
• Fresh Ground Peppercorn
• Half And Half
• Green Onion

How To Make Smoked Turkey Chowder:

I made this using leftover smoked turkey breast, but any smoked turkey will work. (Check out my Smoked Turkey Recipes -> here).

The turkey was smoked on my Pit Boss Pro 1100 from Lowes; if you don’t have Lowes, don’t worry both Walmart and Amazon carry other Pit Boss options or Pit Boss website themselves.  I love that I can set it at 225 with smoke and run inside and take a shower or prep sides, and it just cooks my meat with a fantastic smoke flavor! 

If you use a preseasoned cast iron Dutch oven, wipe it down with oil to help make sure that it is ready to cook without having stuff stick. I use an old cast iron Dutch oven the old lady picked up for $5, which has worked amazingly well! An Enameled Cast Iron would work, but the smoke will stain the enamel of the Dutch oven.  Also, be sure to know How To Season Your Cast Iron.

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Strain your can of kernel corn before adding to the dutch oven. 

Oil down your cast iron and then start to add your ingredients, except for the half and half.   

Give everything a mix in the dutch oven.  If you need to add more broth and fire up your smoker!! 

Now, this is where it pays to know how your smoker cooks and how you like to smoke.  I want to do a low, slow smoke using the smoke setting on my Pitboss. Start up your smoker to get the smoke rolling! I set my Pit Boss Pro 1100 to a smoke setting of P4 for the smoke setting. This time around I used Mesquite Pit Boss Pellets to smoke my roast.

Money and time-saving tips from the old lady. If you order pellets online from Walmart and spend $35, they will drop them off at your door for free!! Their everyday price on pit boss pellets is amazing, plus the expert grill brand has a great price. (see them ->here)

Set the entire dutch oven on your smoke once your rolling smoke, without a lid so the smoke can saturate the beans.

I smoked my chowder for 1 hour and then turn the heat up for 225 for 2 hours.  

Stir the chowder occasionally as it is smoking to allow the chowder to cook evenly and also smoke flavor everything.  

I then poured in the half and half and turned it up to 250 for another hour before serving! 

Serve and enjoy! I topped with some green onion when serving! 

How To Store Leftover Turkey Chowder

Store in the fridge for up to three days in an airtight container. You can freeze the leftover chowder in an airtight container for up to three months.

wHAT TO SERVE WITH Turkey cHOWDER

• Garlic Bread
• Crusty Bread
• Andouille Sausage
• Roasted Potatoes
• Grilled Corn On The Cob
• Smoked Baked Potatoes

Smoked Turkey Recipes: 

A dry rub works amazingly well on turkey, but doing a brine with the dry rub adds more flavor.  There is no wrong way to smoke a turkey.  Now  I buy extras during the holidays, so I have extra turkeys to smoke later in the year!

• Smoked Coca-Cola Turkey Brine Recipe
• Smoked Turkey With A Dry Rub
• Apple Cider Brine Smoked Turkey
• Smoked Turkey Breast With Brine Recipe
• Jack Daniels Smoked Turkey Brine
• Smoked Turkey With Brine, Butter Injection, and Dry Rub

The Best Leftover Smoked Turkey Recipes:

I love to use leftover smoked turkey in other recipes! From Pot Pies to soup to a casserole, there are no limits. I even use my Pit Boss Grills and Blackstone griddle to make leftover dishes too!! Check out all my tried and true leftover turkey recipes ->HERE.