Soup with meatballs: a step by step recipe and different cooking options

Many housewives believe that there is nothing easier than to cook the well-known meatball soup. A step-by-step recipe makes it possible to control your actions at each stage and not to make mistakes. But few people know how many variants of this seemingly simple, but very popular dish exist.

The easiest way

When you need to cook something for dinner for the first time, and in the freezer there is a small piece of minced meat, the first thing that comes to mind is soup with meatballs. A step-by-step recipe from an experienced chef will help to fulfill this desire.

First you need to take care of the products. For such a soup you will need: 3 potatoes, one and a half liters of meat broth, 2 large onions, salt, carrot, 1 egg, ½ Bulgarian sweet pepper, 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil, a little ground pepper and herbs.

All actions must be performed in the following sequence:

1. Dice the onion and then lightly fry in a pan, adding vegetable oil there.
2. A small part of it is added to the minced meat with egg, salt, chopped herbs and pepper. From the resulting mixture, roll up neat balls with your hands.
3. Pepper and carrots also cut into cubes (or something else), add to the onion and fry a little with it so that the products can exchange aromas with each other.
4. Boil water in a pan, and then gently force the minced balls into it with a tablespoon.
5. After 5-6 minutes, there you need to add potatoes. Before that, it must be cleaned and crushed.
6. After 10 minutes, vegetables should be sent to the pan from the pan. It remains only to wait until they boil well.

The result is a simple but delicious meatball soup. Step-by-step control only helps to avoid unnecessary errors.

Small addition

Potato soups are very popular with children. If the dish is designed specifically for them, then some additions can be made to the process itself. It turns out not quite an ordinary soup with meatballs. In this case, a step-by-step recipe provides the following set of initial components: 300 grams of beef pulp, a liter of vegetable broth, onion, salt 4 potatoes, a third of parsley root, a clove of garlic and three stalks of leek.

The cooking process is very similar to the previous version:

1. First you need to twist the meat with a meat grinder into minced meat, and then roll out smooth balls out of it.
2. Pour the broth into a saucepan, bring to a boil on the fire, and then put the cooked meatballs into it and cook for at least 10 minutes. After this, the balls need to be removed and temporarily set aside.
3. From the leek stalks cut off the white part, rinse it, and then chop along with garlic and onions.
4. Put the chopped vegetables in a saucepan with boiling oil and simmer them for 15 minutes over low heat.
5. After that, add chopped potatoes and parsley to them, and then pour everything with broth. Food should boil for about 20 minutes.
6. After that, they must be ground with a blender to a homogeneous mass.

Before serving, put boiled meatballs into a thick mixture and warm everything, avoiding boiling, 3-5 minutes.

With the addition of cereals

Those who like to experiment can try a new way to cook meatball soup . With rice, a step-by-step recipe will look slightly different than the previous two options.

The following ingredients will be needed for work: 400 grams of minced meat (from beef or veal), two and a half liters of water, 25 grams of semolina, 100 grams of rice, salt, onion, carrot, 4 potatoes, bay leaf, herbs (parsley) and pepper.

In this case, you must perform the following steps:

1. First add semolina to the minced meat, knead the mixture well and put it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. During this time, the cereal will swell, and the mass will become more airy.
2. Make some balls from prepared minced meat.
3. Boil a liter of water in a saucepan and cook meat preparations in it for 3 minutes. After this, drain the broth, and lower the meatballs in cold water (one and a half liters) and put it on fire again.
4. Add washed rice.
5. After boiling, dip chopped potatoes into the pan.
6. At this time, you can fry the onions with carrots.
7. Once the potatoes are almost ready, you need to add to the total mass of the vegetable mixture along with the rest of the spices. They should cook no more than 2 minutes.

The finished soup must be removed from the stove, cover and let it stand for 3-4 minutes.

Vegetable festival

Some young housewives, not knowing how to cook meatball soup, choose a step-by-step recipe as the main guide for their work. Beginners can be advised to try a not quite ordinary option. It's about tomato soup.

For such a dish, it will be necessary to prepare in advance: 1 kilogram of mashed tomato pulp, 400 grams of minced meat (chicken), a slice of white bread, 600 milliliters of broth, an egg, 4 cloves of garlic, 2 pieces of carrots and onions, salt, 40 grams of butter, ground pepper, a teaspoon of dried herbs (oregano, basil and rosemary), yogurt and a little parsley.

Cooking the soup is necessary by clearly following the steps below:

1. Peel the carrots, garlic and onions, chop as small as possible, and then fry for 10 minutes in butter over low heat, adding dry herbs.
2. Add salt, tomatoes, pepper and simmer for 20 minutes, stirring constantly.
3. At this time, mix the minced meat with the egg and bread soaked in the broth. From the resulting mass, make not very large meatballs.
4. Dip the meat balls in boiling water, boil for 10 minutes, and then put them on a separate plate.
5. Strain the broth in which they were cooked and add to the tomato mixture.
6. Transfer meatballs there and boil the products together for 2 minutes.

Before serving, you can add a couple of sprigs of parsley to the plate.

Pasta soup

If you don’t have time to stand by the stove for a long time, it’s easiest to make a soup with meatballs and vermicelli, a step-by-step recipe for which includes the following components: 300 grams of any minced meat, half a kilogram of potatoes, 50 grams of semolina, a little ground pepper, 150 grams of carrots and onions, 2 bay leaves, salt and 100 grams of vermicelli.

To prepare such a soup is not at all difficult:

1. First, make minced balls from minced meat, adding salt, semolina and pepper into it.
2. Boil 2 liters of water, and then dip coarsely chopped peeled potatoes into it.
3. Cut onions and carrots as finely as possible and also send them to the pot.
4. Add salt, bay leaf, and after boiling, shift prepared meatballs.
5. After about 20 minutes, add vermicelli and cook until it is almost ready.
6. At the very end, add chopped greens and immediately cover the pan with a lid.

This option is suitable for people who have problems with the stomach, since no component is fried in it. This will avoid unnecessary trouble.