Soup with meatballs and noodles is considered one of the most satisfying, but at the same time light first courses. It takes a little time to prepare, and the result will please even the most avid culinary skeptics. This soup is great for moody kids in terms of food. Sinking little balls must be saved. And salvation is only to quickly pick them up in a spoon and carry them in your mouth. Entertainment and eating are two in one.
I must say, and an adult will not give up a plate of fragrant, rich soup with meatballs, potatoes and noodles, seasoned with a fresh green onion and dill. And if there still floats a spoonful of thick homemade sour cream, then it is simply impossible to pass by such a soup.
Meatballs
Very often they are confused with meatballs. The difference between these dishes is that the meatballs contain only minced meat, some aromatic spices, onions and chicken eggs. No flour, cereals, etc. Experienced housewives call meatballs their lifesaver. As a rule, they are prepared with a margin, many at once and frozen for future use. It is very convenient and helps out in moments when you need to quickly cook something tasty.
Meatballs are prepared from various types of minced meat. It can be pork, duck, chicken and even minced fish. Today we will tell you in detail how to cook a delicious soup with meatballs and noodles. A photo and a detailed description of the process will help beginners to get comfortable in this area of cooking. The traditional option is meatballs, potatoes and vermicelli. But soup can always be supplemented with your favorite foods. Say, the first dish with meatballs will be very tasty if you add Bulgarian pepper, canned beans or fresh tomatoes.
A classic soup with meatballs and noodles. Step by step recipe
Such soup is cooked in chicken broth. If you want to get a richer taste, more fat and saturation, then take a piece of pork or fatty beef on the bone. For minced meat, it is better to take two types of meat: more tender (chicken) and more saturated in taste and weighty in calories (pork, beef or duck). As for vegetables and greens, experienced housewives advise stocking up with decent bunches of parsley or dill, as well as colorful vegetables (bell peppers, carrots, green onions), so that the soup is saturated not only in taste but also in color.
Essential Ingredients
- T-bone chicken - 400 g
- Chicken fillet - 250 g.
- Pork - 250 g (or minced meat - 500 g).
- Vermicelli - 60 g.
- Onion - 2 pcs.
- Potato - 3 pcs.
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Egg - 1 pc.
- Salt.
- Spices for meat.
- Bell pepper - 2 pcs. different color.
- Bay leaf.
- Oil.
- Dill (parsley).
Cooking Meatballs
Before you start cooking one of the important ingredients of the dish, we advise you to pre-cook the broth. Do not forget to put in the water, in addition to a piece of meat on the bone, whole onions, a few slices of carrots and any other roots, as well as a bay leaf and a few peppercorns. You can salt at the end of cooking.
We cut the meat into small pieces and pass through a small grill of a meat grinder. Add salt, a little ground pepper to the minced meat, you can pour half a teaspoon of prepared spices for minced meat. Shred the onion as small as possible and also add it to the minced meat. It remains to break the chicken egg for the best coupling of all the ingredients. In some recipes you can find another product - stale bread (loaf). But we want to note, we are going to cook soup with noodles and meatballs, not cutlets. In the classic meatball recipe, there is no loaf soaked in milk.
From the minced meat, it is necessary to form small balls. Nobody will name the exact size of meatballs. Someone prefers that a couple of large meatballs float in the soup, and other housewives cook the soup with a lot of small neat balls.
How to cook soup with meatballs, vermicelli. Recipe with photo
After the broth is cooked, and the meatballs are ready, work on the dish will go much faster. We take the meat out of the broth and filter it into another pan. Do not forget to salt to taste. Peel the potatoes, cut into neat, even cubes and send to the broth. Cook for 10 minutes.
We clean the carrots, three on a grater and fry on the rast. oil. When the carrots are gilded, add finely chopped onions to it. At the last stage, we pass the bell pepper, chopped into thin strips.
Add meat balls to the potato. Do not throw meatballs into the broth, lower them on a spoon. So the balls will remain intact, and you will not feel the unpleasant touch of boiling water to your hands. Cook another 15 minutes. At the final stage, add the pasta. As a rule, thin noodles (homemade or egg store) are used for soup with meatballs and noodles, so it is cooked in a matter of minutes.
After a couple of minutes, you can put in a soup a frying of pepper, carrots and onions. A few more minutes - and you can turn off the fire. Pour more finely chopped fresh herbs and cover the soup with a lid, letting it brew a little.
Tomato Soup with Pasta, Beans and Meatballs
This version of the first dish will be slightly caloric, nourishing and richer in taste than the classic soup with meatballs, with noodles, a step-by-step recipe for which we described above. The process of preparing the broth and the meat balls themselves is no different. Only the list of ingredients and the process of laying them in the broth will vary.
What is required
- Bouillon - 1.6 liters.
- 15-18 ready-made meatballs.
- Macaroni (any shape and size) - 200 g.
- Tomato paste - 250 g.
- A clove of garlic.
- Potato - 2 pcs.
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Oil.
- Greens - 1 beam.
Cooking method
In the finished broth, put the cubes of potatoes and send to medium heat for 15 minutes. During this time, you can peel the onions, chop carrots and fry them until golden. After the specified time, add meatballs to the potato. At the same cooking stage, you can put in the soup a thick tomato paste (or homemade tomato sauce), chopped garlic and bay leaf chopped into crumbs. If you like tomato soups sharper, then at the same stage you can add hot ground or fresh chili peppers to the dish.
After ten minutes, add the pasta. Cook until tender. Some housewives advise to cook pasta to the state of Al dente. When the dish is infused, they "reach" on their own. Turn off the soup, and only then pour fresh herbs into the pan. Close the lid, insist the first dish for 5-8 minutes.
Serving soup with meatballs and noodles is possible not only with fresh herbs. When serving, you can rub the smoked processed cheese on a plate. You can use regular hard cheese. The dish will turn out very tasty and beautiful if you put half of the boiled egg in the center of the bowl of soup. It is better to take a chicken egg homemade, where the yolk is a bright yellow saturated color. And a spoonful of thick homemade sour cream will never be superfluous.