Ingredients

The following ingredients have 4 Servings
  • Two cups cooked acini di pepe pasta or other small pasta (see note above)
  • 2 quarts chicken stock (home made is best but canned is acceptable)
  • 1 pound leftover cooked turkey, white or dark or both or cooked chicken
  • 3 whole eggs
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ¼ cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese, divided
  • 2 tablespoons freshly Italian flat leaf parsley, chopped, plus more for garnish

Instruction

  • Cook pasta in boiling water for ten minutes, drain but do not rinse.
  • Remove three tablespoons of cold stock and place in a medium bowl. In a medium pot, bring remaining stock to a boil and reduce down to 1 ½ quarts.
  • While stock is reducing and pasta is cooking, shred turkey with your fingers into bite sized shreds.
  • In the bowl with cool stock, add eggs, salt and half the Parmesan along with the chopped parsley. Beat for three minutes by hand with a whip or use an electric mixer.
  • Once stock has reduced, add egg mixture a little at a time while you whip stock. The eggs will separate which is what you want.
  • Add cooked pasta and cooked turkey and heat and simmer for five minutes.
  • Serve with remaining Parmesan cheese and chopped parsley.