Every day, every person needs to eat hot liquid food at least once. That is soup. It is very useful and easy for the body. Vegetable soups, ear, cabbage soup and so on are especially useful. Soups can be prepared with or without meat. Meat broth is very useful for children and adults. No wonder that when a person is sick, he is first given chicken stock. Next, consider how you can cook a delicious soup with meatballs.
Favorite Soup
Everyone's favorite, adored even by young children soup with meatballs is easy to prepare. Cooking takes no more than an hour. In another way, meatballs are also called "hedgehogs." This name was given because they have a granular structure due to the rice contained in the composition. You can make meatballs without rice. And you can use another cereal: buckwheat, pearl barley and so on. In any case, the soup with meatballs turns out to be rich, rich and satisfying. This soup belongs to the Caucasian cuisine. And Caucasians, as you know, know a lot about cooking. This soup they get is thick and at the same time transparent, with a pleasant color and butter on top. There are a lot of recipes for meatball soup. Next is a selection of the most famous.
Classic version
For this soup with meatballs you will need meat (0.5 kg, any, preferably beef), rice (1.5 cups), potatoes (4 pieces), carrots (2 pieces), onions. Salt, herbs - to taste. The meat is scrolled through a meat grinder with a small hole. Rice, one egg, salt to taste, greens are added to the resulting minced meat. Everything is thoroughly mixed. Then balls the size of an egg are formed.
Onions are diced, carrots are cut into strips. Onion is fried in vegetable oil until golden brown. Then the carrots are added and fried until softened. You can add tomatoes.
Water pours into the pan. Salt and bring to a boil. Next add the fried vegetables. Throw meatballs into water and boil for about ten minutes.
Peeled and diced washed potatoes. Add to broth. Once it boils, turn down the heat and simmer for about fifteen minutes. Next, add vermicelli or other pasta. Ideally, homemade noodles. Its easy to do.
To do this, take one egg, 1 tablespoon of water and flour. Steep dough is mixed. It rolls out with a rolling pin into a very thin layer. Next, with a sharp knife, noodles are cut. You can make different figures - rhombuses, squares and so on.
Ready soup with meatballs (photo attached) sprinkled with herbs.
Milk soup
You can cook milk soup with meatballs. This is a very tasty and healthy dish.
The most important thing is to choose fresh and tasty milk (preferably homemade). You can take cream instead of milk. Then the soup will be richer and more nutritious.
Milk is poured into the pan and brought to a boil. Next, ready-made meatballs are placed. Fifteen minutes later, add the potatoes to the milk broth and boil over low heat for another 15 minutes. The soup is ready. When serving, you can sprinkle with herbs (onions, dill, parsley) and Provencal herbs.
Tomato Recipe
Meatballs go very well with tomatoes. You can cook soup with meatballs based on tomato juice.
First, tomato juice is prepared from ripe tomatoes. Vegetables should be undamaged. It is advisable to remove the peel, but not necessarily.
Pour the juice into the pan. Boil, add diced bell peppers. After about five minutes add meatballs and potatoes. Boil over low heat for 15 minutes. Soup with meatballs based on tomato juice is ready. When serving, be sure to sprinkle with herbs. The combination of red and green will excite any appetite. You can put a spoonful of sour cream.
You can dilute tomato juice with water.
Pea soup with meatballs (step by step recipe)
Meatballs can also be served with peas. For this soup you will need peas - 1.5 cups, potatoes (4 pcs.), Carrots (2 pcs.), Onions (1 onion). And the meatballs themselves, of course. If whole peas are taken, then it cooks longer (you can soak in advance). In this case, you need to put it before the meatballs. If not, then he is put after.
To boil water. Then put the meatballs in the water. Boil for about five minutes. Next up is peas. Turn down the fire. After 15 minutes, potatoes are used. Fry onion and carrots in vegetable oil. When potatoes are ready, put the fried vegetables into the broth. Five minutes - and the delicious dish is ready.
Afterword
Soup with meatballs is a wonderful simple dish. He is loved by adults and children. Meatballs can be added to borsch, and to hodgepodge, and to cabbage soup, and to noodle soup. They can be made from any meat: beef, lamb, chicken and so on. You can stuff with rice, and buckwheat, and pearl barley. It is very important. After all, some children do not like any kind of cereal. Then for parents meatballs are a real help.
Instead of cereals, you can put grated cabbage or carrots in future meatballs. Then they will turn out even juicier.
The amount of ingredients depends on what kind of soup you need to get: thick or not. Someone like to have more meat (then add more "hedgehogs"), someone - very thick (add more vegetables). Some love the broth. In any case, about 0.5 kg of meatballs should be taken for three liters of water.