Meatball soup has been popular for many years, but how do you make minced meatballs for soup so that they are juicy and don't fall apart in the soup? It's easy to cook such meatballs, you just need to follow the basic rules for their preparation, and you will get tender and fragrant meat balls.

How to make minced meatballs for soup recipe with step by step photos

Preparation:

1. The taste of finished meatballs largely depends on the meat from which they are made. Of course, you need to use high quality fresh meat. At the same time, the meat should not be greasy, because it will leave an ugly greasy coating on the surface of the soup.

It is best to use a mixture of several types of meat for cooking meatballs, but you can also cook them with pure pork, beef, lamb or chicken. Scroll a suitable piece of meat through a meat grinder. It is even advisable to pass it through a meat grinder twice so that the minced meat is the most tender.

2. To add juiciness to the meatballs, add onion... For two hundred grams of meat, half a small onion will be enough.

Either chop the onion very finely, or grate it on a fine grater (this the best option). Add the onion to the minced meat, season with salt and add black pepper or pepper mixture for a richer meatball flavor.

If you are using completely dry meat or just want to make the meatballs as juicy as possible, you can pour a tablespoon of melted butter into the minced meat.

3. Now mix the minced meat thoroughly. This should be done not with a spoon, but with your hands so that all the ingredients are most evenly distributed.

You can even beat off the minced meat. To do this, lift the minced meat and forcefully drop it onto a cutting board, repeat about ten times.

4. After kneading the minced meat, you can start forming the meatballs. Immediately place a plate of water next to you and wet your palms to prevent the meatballs from sticking to your hands.

Take a small amount of minced meat with a teaspoon. The meatballs should not be large, the most suitable size is 1.5-2.5 centimeters.

5. Now roll the minced meat between your palms to make a round ball. Put the finished ball on a plate, moisten your hands with water again and roll the same balls from the rest of the minced meat.

Try to make them all the same size.

6. Pour water into a saucepan and boil it. Add some salt to boiling water and Bay leaf... Place the meatballs in the water and wait for it to boil again. Now make the fire a little smaller. When foam appears on the surface, be sure to remove it with a spoon.

7. Cook the meatballs for seven to ten minutes, depending on the size of the balls. Then use a slotted spoon to carefully remove the meatballs from the broth and place them on a plate.

Now boil the soup with potatoes and vegetables in this broth, and return the meatballs to the pan when the soup is completely ready. Thanks to this, the soup will turn out delicious, and the meatballs in it will remain whole, beautiful and tender.

As for how to make minced meatballs for soup with different tastes, if you wish, you can add grated cheese to the minced meat, fried carrots or fried onions, change the composition of spices and combine types of meat.

How to make minced meatballs for soup at home, simple, quick and delicious!

Everyone loves soup with meatballs, with the exception of vegetarians. But we are not talking about them now. It's just that the most important ingredient in this soup is the meatballs. But they can be different: only from one type of minced meat or from several, with or without additives. And the soup itself can only be vegetable or with the addition of cereals. Can you imagine what a variety of tastes this is? And this soup will become the most favorite for children, and since for them, it means the whole family will eat it, not to cook a separate dish for each one.

Delicious soup with peas, meatballs

How to make meatball soup

Our Russian meatball soup has a progenitor from Italy and Azerbaijan. True, in Azerbaijan it is called "Dovga" and is prepared with kefir.
And for some reason in Italy it is called "wedding" soup, but at weddings they are not treated to it. Interesting somehow.

So, the highlight in this soup is, of course, the meatballs.

Everyone cooks them differently.

But there are a few things that will reveal their taste and make the cooking process faster.

First, add cumin to the meat before grinding. The meat will become much more flavorful.

Secondly, to make the minced meat juicier, add water if you grind with a blender. Of course, you don't need to pour it into a meat grinder. The water will not only saturate the fibers a little, but will also help the motor grind the pieces.

It is better to shape the meatballs with damp hands.

If you have balls of different sizes, then you should not worry, no one said that they must necessarily be round and the same.

Be sure to salt the meat.

If you have minced meat made from several types of meat, then you can add an egg to it to thicken the mass.

And, if you like to use minced chicken, then add a tablespoon of semolina, which will make the dry meat more juicy.

To avoid minced meat porridge in the soup, you need to drain the meat mass into boiling water.

The balls will float as you cook.

Well, it's up to you to decide what will be the ingredients of the soup. I will give several recipes, choose what you like best.

Soup with meatballs in a slow cooker

This soup is considered more for children, and when you have children, then, perhaps, there is a slow cooker. Personally, she just saved me. You put on food and go for a walk with the baby. We return hungry, but we have everything ready, fragrant and hot.

So, in this recipe we do not fry vegetables, so again this is a children's soup.

Ingredients:

• 4 potatoes
• A pound of minced meat
• 1 onion
• 1 carrot
• 1 tomato
• A little butter
• 2 cloves of garlic
• Basil, dill
• Water 2-2.5 l

Add a couple of garlic cloves, pepper and salt to the minced meat.

We will cook the soup immediately with herbs. It is important to add it at the very beginning, not at the end, the taste depends on it.

We cut vegetables and herbs.

In a multicooker, everything is cooked at the same time!

If this soup is cooked over a fire, then the vegetables are laid in sequence.

Place vegetables and sprinkle with basil and other spices.

And here we add butter, which will give the broth a creamy, delicate taste.

You can add a tomato, tomato paste.

Fill everything with water and set the mode. I call it “Soup”, there is also the “Cooking” mode.

Minced meat is suitable for anyone. You can mix beef, pork and lamb (if available). Chicken is more dietary, and if your husband is a hunter, then cook it from venison or elk. By the way, I was treated to a soup made from such meat, it seemed that it was a little harsh, but I did not catch much difference with the already tested types.

Soup with meatballs and noodles: a step-by-step recipe with a photo

For increase nutritional value vermicelli or pasta is added to this soup. I do not accept pasta in soups, and always replace them with noodles, noodles, pasta or cobweb. But they are indicated in the recipes.

By the way, this recipe is very close to Italian. And, if you freeze vegetables, then this habit will be very useful for you.

Ingredients:

• Chicken broth 2 l
• 2 carrots
• Bulb
• Tomato
• 3 potatoes
• Green beans
• One bell pepper.
• Pasta, pasta, noodles from hard varieties wheat

For the meatballs:

• 500 gr of beef
• 1 onion
• 1 egg
• 2 tbsp semolina
• Bunch of parsley
• 3 tablespoons grated cheese
• Basil, salt and pepper

1. We make meatballs: we roll the meat in a meat grinder into the minced meat along with onions, then drive in an egg, semolina, spices, chopped parsley and grated cheese to this mass.
2. Now we form the balls, as in the photo. We moisten our hands with water so that the meat does not stick and roll the balls or squeeze even pieces through our fingers.

3. Now we are preparing the soup itself. First, fry vegetables (onions, tomatoes and onions) in heated vegetable oil.

4. Pour potatoes into a saucepan with broth. After boiling, cook the potatoes for 1-2 minutes.

5. Then add pepper and chopped beans. Cook for a couple of minutes and add frying.

6. We do not add frying in advance, because it contains tomatoes that contain acid. And she, in turn, does not allow the potatoes to cook until tender.

7. After boiling, add noodles or pasta.

8. Dip the meatballs into the boiling soup.

9. You need to cook for another quarter of an hour.

For flavor, pour a little garlic, a mixture of peppers, chopped herbs into the broth.

Leave the soup to infuse, and sprinkle with grated cheese on the plates.

The soup will become thick, filling and very aromatic.

How to Make a Delicious Minced Chicken Meatball Soup

Ground chicken is more affordable than mixed. It can be mixed with pork for a more tender mass. But not everyone always has pork available.

You can take ready-made minced meat, but you can make it from chicken breast if you have it as a children's menu.

For the meatballs:

• 200 gr minced chicken
• Bunch of greenery
• 1 egg
• 1 tbsp. spoon of semolina
• Salt pepper

1. Add greens, semolina and an egg to the minced meat. We are waiting for the semolina to swell a little. It will make the meatballs more holistic and tender. Also let dry chicken meat retain moisture.

2. Cut the onion and carrots into smaller pieces and fry in oil.

3. Add potatoes and fry to the broth (you don't need to fry vegetables, add raw ones).

4. Into the gurgling broth, lower the meat balls and reduce the power of the mode to medium, otherwise the broth will not be transparent and unclear.

5. Pour noodles or "spider web" into the prepared soup.

Watch a detailed video of how to make the soup.

Step-by-step recipe for meatball, rice and potato soup

This recipe is more masculine because the soup is thicker and more nutritious. And the simplest one. Anyone can cook it, both a man and a teenager and an inexperienced housewife.

Ingredients:

• Carrot
• Potato
• Spices
• Onions for mince and frying

1. Add potatoes to cold water and cook until boiling, then add washed rice.

2. Now we prepare the minced meat: mix the chopped onion, spices into the total mass and form the meat rounds. Try scooping up the minced meat with a teaspoon to get them roughly the same size.

3. The soup is cooked for five minutes and the meat ingredient is lowered into boiling water.

4. Make a roast and put it in the soup.

5. At the end of cooking, remember about dried dill and a couple of bay leaves.

Remember, different spices open up the soup.

Potato soup with meatballs (with potatoes and noodles)

Potatoes and noodles do not always go together, but this is how they cook in our family. In general, soup without potatoes is somehow incomplete for us. As if there was nothing to chew on.

Ingredients:

• 300 gr minced meat
• Water 2.5 l
• 1 carrot
• 1 onion
• 2 potatoes
• Vegetable oil
• Salt pepper
• Pasta or noodles half a glass
• 3 bay leaves

1. Put the water to a boil and then chop the vegetables: three carrots, and cut the onion and potatoes.

2. Pour a spoon into the pan vegetable oil and send carrots and onion cubes to be sautéed.

3. Add spices and salt to the minced meat. Very flavorful meatballs are made with cumin.

4. Finished balls should be lowered into boiling broth to prevent turning them into porridge.

5. We are waiting for the meatballs to float, this means that the turn of the sliced ​​potatoes has come. After boiling, add pasta or noodles. Importantly, we are not talking about a cobweb here.

6. If you have a cobweb, add it at the end of cooking, when the soup is still hot. This warmth will be enough for her. If you boil it for even five minutes, it will turn into porridge.

7. Then add frying and cook it all for another 10 minutes on medium heat.

8. Add spices, peas, dried dill.

As a result, the ingredient composition of this soup can be changed at your own discretion and the taste of family members.

It will be interesting for children to find colorful or curly pasta in the soup.

You can add a stirred egg to it at the time of boiling at the end of cooking. Our soups with this addition are called "soup with clouds."

The main thing is that the temperature is such that the protein has time to curl up.

Or, when serving, sprinkle the soup with grated cheese, such as parmesan, will also immediately become an unusual dish.

Undoubtedly one of the favorite dishes in Russian cuisine is meatball soup. It is quite simple and quick to prepare, so even a novice housewife can cook it. Plus, you won't spend a lot of money on the ingredients for the meatball soup, which is also important in our challenging crisis environment.

If you like to experiment in cooking, then you can safely do this in the preparation of soup with meatballs. For example, you can take beef, pork, homemade (pork with beef), or even minced fish... You can continue experimenting by adding various cereals to the soup or pasta... These ingredients will make your soup more satisfying. And if you add bell pepper and a little canned, then the soup will cheer you up and all the household members who will gather at the dinner table.

There are many ways to make meatball soup, here are 5 of the most delicious methods. Let's start learning to cook with traditional recipe of this dish, and we will get exactly that tasty soup, which we ate in distant childhood in the kitchen of our beloved grandmother

We will consider the traditional cooking recipe in more detail than all the others. So let's get started. We need:

• Minced chicken - 350 grams;
• Potatoes - 3 pieces;
• Onions - 1 piece;
• Carrots - 1 piece;
• Vegetable oil - 3 tablespoons;
• Butter to taste;
• Bay leaf - to taste;
• Salt and pepper to taste;
• Fresh dill and green onions- taste.

How to make meatballs for soup?

Meatballs are the basis of our soup, therefore minced chicken it will be better to cook it yourself. For the classic recipe, we chose minced chicken because it gives the soup a delicate and creamy flavor.

1) Cooking minced meat

Everyone has known for a long time that in stores for the preparation of minced meat, they use chicken or meat that is not the first freshness, and so that such minced meat does not deteriorate for a long time and is better stored, various preservatives are added to it. We advise you to take care of your health, so we will cook the minced meat ourselves:

• Take defrosted chicken, wash it, separate the meat from the bones and pass it through a meat grinder.

ADVICE! Do not use chicken skin, as it contains a lot of cholesterol and is also very high in calories.

• Mix everything thoroughly in a bowl;
• If you are the lucky owner of a kitchen scale, weigh 350 grams of minced meat on it. In the case when there is no kitchen scale at home, put the minced meat in the palm of your hand - this will be our required amount of minced meat for the meatballs. Place the remaining ingredients in the freezer;
• Put the minced meat in a plate, season with salt and pepper to taste, add the onions. To do this, pre-cut half of the onion into small cubes.
• Mix everything thoroughly.

INTERESTING! Add cold boiled water or milk to the minced meat, this will make the minced meat more tender and juicy;

2) Forming the meatballs

There are several ways to form meatballs:

• Take a teaspoon, put the minced meat in there and put it on a pre-prepared plate.
• Wet your palms cold water or grease them with vegetable oil. Take pieces of minced meat with your hands and mold them into small "balls".

Cooking method

When the meatballs are ready, move on to making the soup itself:

1. Put 2 liters of water in a saucepan, add 1 flat teaspoon of salt and bring to a boil.
2. Wash the potatoes, peel them and cut them into small sticks or cubes of your choice.
3. When the water in the saucepan starts to boil, carefully put the meatballs we prepared in advance, bring the water to a boil and reduce the heat, letting the chicken balls simmer for 5 minutes. When doing this, do not forget to remove the foam with a slotted spoon.
4. The next step is to add the chopped potatoes to the boiling broth. Cook it over medium heat.
5. Now prepare the stir fry for the soup. To do this, wash one carrot, peel it and rub it on a coarse grater. Take 0.5 heads of onions and cut them into small cubes. Pour 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil into a frying pan and put the prepared carrots and onions there, fry them for 3-4 minutes over low heat. Add butter at the very end.
6. Mix vegetable dressing with our soup.
7. Add bay leaves, 3-4 black peppercorns and cook for 10-15 minutes.
8. Take a bunch of fresh dill and green onions, wash them under cold running water, let the water drain. Now place the herbs on a cutting board, chop finely and pour everything into the boiling soup. Cover the dish, letting it sweat a little, and remove the saucepan from heat.

This is the preparation classic soup with meatballs ends, so we suggest you consider 2 more extravagant recipes for the same dish.

Soup with meatballs in a slow cooker is a lightweight and useful option our dish. This soup is prepared without frying vegetables, but this makes it even more delicious.

Ingredients for the dish:

• Minced chicken - 350 grams;
• Potatoes - 3 pieces;
• Onions - 1 piece;
• Carrots - 1 piece;
• Rice - 3 tablespoons;
• Egg (for minced meat) - 1 piece;
• Black peppercorns - to taste;
• Bay leaf - to taste;
• Salt and pepper to taste;
• Fresh dill to taste.

Cooking method

If you have already purchased everything necessary ingredients, go to the preparation of the dish:

1. Take purchased minced meat or cook it yourself.
2. Beat one egg into the minced meat, add salt and pepper to taste. Mix everything thoroughly.
3. Sculpt chicken balls out of minced meat.
4. Wash the potatoes, peel them and cut them into cubes.
5. Wash the carrots, peel them and pass through a coarse grater.
6. Peel the onion, cut it into cubes.
7. Place the meatballs, chopped potatoes, carrots, and onions in a slow cooker. Add black peppercorns and bay leaves to taste.
8. Pour water into the multicooker bowl, cover with a lid and select the "simmer" mode for 40 minutes.
9. Pour the washed rice into the multicooker 15 minutes before the end of cooking.
10. At the very end, take a bunch of fresh dill and green onions, chop them finely and pour into the soup.

IMPORTANT! To make it easier for you to shape the meatballs, moisten your hands with water or vegetable oil.

This soup option is ideal for those on a diet. It is less high in calories and more useful than traditional version this dish.

This option for cooking soup always turns out to be tasty and satisfying. The hostesses are also pleased that it is very simple and quick to prepare, without taking away a lot of energy.

This cooking option will appeal to both adults and young children.

Ingredients for the dish:

• Chicken, beef or minced pork- 300 grams;
• Egg - 1 piece;
• Thin noodles - 100 grams;
• Potatoes - 3 pieces;
• Carrots - 1 piece;
• Onion - 1 piece;
• Black peppercorns - to taste;
• Bay leaf - to taste;
• Salt and pepper to taste;
• Fresh dill to taste.

Cooking method

We will cook the soup in stages:

1. First, choose minced meat for the meatballs, you can use chicken, beef or minced pork. Add an egg to it. Mix everything thoroughly. Sculpt meat balls from the resulting mass.
2. Let's move on to vegetables. Take 3 potatoes, one carrot, and one onion. Cut the potatoes and onions into cubes, grate the carrots on a coarse grater. Transfer the potatoes to the boiling broth, and fry the rest of the vegetables in a pan for 3-4 minutes.
3. Add the frying and meatballs to the broth, cover and simmer for 10-15 minutes.
4. Now add thin noodles and cook for another 3 minutes.
5. Turn off the heat, cover the pan with a lid and let it brew for another 15 minutes.

ATTENTION! Make sure that the noodles are not overcooked, otherwise the noodles will become mushy.

Soup with meatballs and noodles turns out to be very appetizing in taste, and most importantly - hearty and rich. This soup will be the best solution for a family dinner.

Meatball soup is winning not only the hearts of Russians. Due to its lightness and satiety, it gained popularity abroad long ago, including in Italy. Italian meatball soup is a very aromatic and delicious dish.

Ingredients for the dish:

The Italian meatball soup takes a little more ingredients than the classic cooking option.

• Ground beef - 350 grams;
• Potatoes - 3 pieces;
• Onions - 2 pieces;
• Carrots - 3 pieces;
• Egg - 1 piece;
• Parmesan - 1 glass;
• Garlic - 1 piece;
• Tomato paste - 3 tablespoons;
• Fresh dill and parsley to taste;
• Salt and pepper to taste.

Cooking method

As soon as all the necessary ingredients are purchased, we start preparing our dish:

1. Put in a bowl Ground beef, egg, garlic, cheese, parsley and dill. You can add to the wish breadcrumbs... Mix all contents thoroughly.
2. Now mold the meatballs from the resulting mass. The best way to do this is with a teaspoon or tablespoon (depending on the size you want).
3. Put the meatballs in boiling water, cook them for about 3-5 minutes, remove the beef balls from the pan and transfer to a plate.
4. Now add vegetables to the same water. Pour the pre-fried and finely chopped peppers and onions, as well as carrots, celery and potatoes into a saucepan, cook for 15 minutes.
5. 10 minutes after you have covered the vegetables to cook, add the garlic, tomato paste and beef balls.
6. Turn the heat to high and bring the soup to a boil. Turn off the heat and let your dish steep for another 10-15 minutes.
7. Finally, sprinkle the soup with finely chopped dill and parsley.

This variant of the dish, unlike classic recipes, can be served for dinner. Italian soup with meatballs turns out to be unusually tasty, refined and spicy thanks to harmonious combination ingredients.

Finally, let's consider an unusual option for making soup with meatballs, and it is considered original due to the fact that the meatballs here are made from minced fish.

Ingredients for the dish:

• Fish fillet - 300 grams;
• Breadcrumbs - 4 tablespoons;
• Potatoes - 3 pieces;
• Onions - 1 piece;
• Carrots - 1 piece;
• Egg - 1 piece;
• Black peppercorns - to taste;
• Bay leaf - to taste;
• Salt and pepper to taste;
• Fresh dill to taste.

Cooking method

Let's start cooking fish meatball soup:

1. Take a fish fillet and mince it by twisting it in a meat grinder. For a homogeneous mass, add bread crumbs and an egg to the minced meat. Season with salt, pepper and season to taste. Sculpt the minced meat into fish balls.
2. Wash the potatoes, peel them and cut them into small slices.
3. Prepare a stir fry for the soup. Take one carrot and grate it on a coarse grater. Peel and cut one onion into cubes. Put the prepared vegetables in a pan and simmer over low heat for 3-4 minutes.
4. Dip fish balls into boiling broth and cook for 10-20 minutes.
5. Add 2 bay leaves and 3 black peppercorns to the soup.
6. Finally, wash the dill, chop it finely on a board and pour into the soup.
7. Turn off the heat, cover the pan with a lid.

The fish meatball soup is ready. The prepared dish will surprise all household members with its unusual taste and feed their stomachs.

As you can see, there are a lot of recipes for making meatball soup. Different variations of meatball soup can be made with a minimum of ingredients. All options differ from each other in the method of preparation, ingredients, calorie content, but they are united by only one thing - a unique taste.

Choosing any recipe for this first course, be sure that you will end up with a delicious and rich soup. Cook according to our recipes with love and then your meals will be eaten with a bang. Enjoy your meal!

1. Delicious
Do you need any additional comments when everyone knows that meatball soup is just delicious? Have you ever met at least one person who would not like this dish (just do not exaggerate, we are now talking a priori about those homo sapiens who are sympathetic to the first courses)? Not? Here's the same thing.

2. Fast
Prepare a couple of kilograms of minced meat and entertain the children with artistic modeling - proven by practice: the little ones just get excellent balls-circles. After all the minced meat has been disposed of into meatballs, place the round meat on a board or plate covered with a regular plastic bag and freeze. After 2-4 hours, you can turn the bag inside out so that the meatballs remain inside. And voila - you will now always have ready-made meat balls at your fingertips, thanks to which you can cook a soup in 15 minutes, without having to allocate time for cooking minced meat and sculpting meatballs.

3. Useful
Soups are generally a useful thing, and if you also cook them without the usual heavy and rich broth on the bone, and even without oily frying, you will not have a price. You and the soup. Not food, but a vitamin pill.

4. Children love, adults are nostalgic
Well, you must admit that soup with meatballs is such a portion of childhood. Delicious, funny, funny, carefree. Sit as much as you want over a plate, pick out meat balls, chew potatoes. And dream about something good - how you grow up and become an astronaut, for example. Or suddenly, in your old age, you will invent a time machine and return to those years when your mother cooked soup with meatballs for you, when you could not look best recipes delicious meals when everything was simple and clear….

5. Budgetary
Yeah, exactly on a budget: a handful of minced meat is the most expensive thing in the pan. If you need even more economical, take half a handful and sculpt not meatballs, but peas. All in all, one of the cheapest soups. It's nice!

How to make meatball balls

In a nutshell, meatballs differ from cutlets in a mere trifle - in shape and size. Everything else is very similar. Meatballs are molded, like cutlet dough, from minced meat (any: meat, chicken, fish, vegetable) with the addition of a loaf, semolina, rice, milk, eggs, onions, garlic, herbs, spices and seasonings. In very different combinations of the above, with the presence or absence of both, or even without anything at all, but only from minced meat. Of course, in the latter case, you cannot get perfectly smooth round and perfectly tender lumps, but many prefer them to an unpretentious, purely meaty taste.

How to make soup meatballs

1. Fill the stale white loaf with warm milk.

1. We cut the meat into small pieces and pass it through a meat grinder together with the wet bread. We do it there twice, or even three times, achieving an ideally homogeneous consistency.

1. Finely chop the onion and herbs, send them along with salt and spices to the minced meat.

1. Beat the egg and, sending it to the minced meat, knead the cutlet dough.

1. Knead thoroughly, form a lump. And now 10 times we throw it into a bowl, adding minced meat from minced meat density.

1. We form balls the size of Walnut or smaller, lubricating hands with vegetable oil or moistening them with water.

1. Such a preparation of meatballs can be immediately put into action or frozen in plastic bags of 10-15 pieces in the freezer.

The recipe for the most tender meatballs

Soak the crumb of the loaf in milk, grind it to a mushy state. Mix the minced meat and "gruel" and skip it a couple of times in a meat grinder. Salt and pepper. That's it, nothing else needs to be added.

Meatball soup lovers claim they can eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Of course, they exaggerate - from day to day, eating the same dish, even the most beloved, will quickly get bored, however, provided creative approach to the question, you can, perhaps, actually cook the coveted soup with meatballs, say, every other day. The main thing is to fantasize and try new and new options. And they can be - darkness is dark! Here's an impromptu 10 simple recipes soups with meatballs. Having chosen one of them, please note that it is not at all necessary to cook meatballs from pure minced meat - you can use classic recipe or any other, general principles which are given above.

10 recipes for meatball soups

1. Soup with meatballs and cream cheese

Processed cheese is a budget tool for ennobling the rather simple, let's face it, meatball soup tastes. Why not?

Ingredients:
250 g minced meat;
1 carrot;
1 onion;

20 g butter;
1 processed cheese;
2.5 liters of water or broth;
salt, herbs, pepper to taste.

We make meatballs from minced meat - the smaller, the more beautiful.

At the same time, dissolve the butter in a saucepan and lightly extinguish the chopped small cubes onion. Add carrots grated on a fine grater, after a couple of minutes - diced potatoes. Fill with water (broth), bring to a boil, add meatballs, and then reduce heat and cook until potatoes are ready - about 20 minutes. At the end, add the grated processed cheese, stirring, wait until it completely dissolves in water.

Salt before serving, add black pepper and herbs.

If desired, the same soup can be prepared in a creamy version - for this, the ready-made meatballs must be removed from the pan, puree the remaining contents of the pan, and then return the meatballs to the soup. A little more hassle, more originality.

2. Soup with meatballs and homemade noodles

Well, this is not soup, this is some kind of miracle! Everything you love in one saucepan: both juicy meatballs and soft homemade pasta, and a fragrant vegetable broth, and a subtle smell of a bay leaf! ... Not a soup, but perfection. Of course, you have to tinker a little, but it's worth it.

Broth ingredients

1/2 celery root;
1 stalk of celery
2 carrots;
1 onion;
1 large bunch of greens;
2 bell peppers;
a slice of pumpkin weighing 250-300 g;
3 liters of water.

For homemade noodles

1 egg;
1/2 tsp salt;
120-140 g flour.

2.5 liters of vegetable broth;
160 g homemade pasta;
300 g minced meat;
1 carrot;
salt, bay leaves, herbs, black and allspice to taste.

We clean the vegetables for the broth, put them in a saucepan, fill them with water, bring to a boil, reduce the heat to a minimum. Cook under the lid for about 30 minutes, then let the broth cool slightly, and then filter through a sieve. We throw away the vegetables.

While the broth is boiling, cook the noodles - in a bowl of sufficient size, slightly beat the egg and salt with a fork, add 50 g of flour, mix. We spread another 60 g of flour on the work surface, there is also the egg-flour mass. Knead an elastic, smooth dough, adding a little flour if necessary. Leave it for 10 minutes, then roll it into a thin layer of arbitrary shape and cut it into strips up to 5 cm wide. Sprinkle the strips with flour, stack them on top of each other. Cut the noodles, "scattering" the resulting strips of dough on the working surface.

Soup. From fresh minced meat we form balls with a diameter of 1-1.5 cm. Pour vegetable broth into a saucepan, bring to a boil, add carrots, cut into thin circles. We spread the meatballs, and then immediately after boiling - homemade noodles and bay leaves. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and cook for about 7-10 minutes until the noodles are done.

Serve with herbs.

3. Recipe for soup with meatballs and buckwheat

This is not to say that this is the most classic version of meatball soup, but it has every right to exist - healthy, wholesome and tasty. Lovers of buckwheat will surely like this soup.

Ingredients:
250-300 g minced meat;
2 slices of white bread;
2 large potatoes;
1 carrot;
1/3 cup buckwheat;
2 liters of water or broth;

Pour the bread with warm water, squeeze and mix with the minced meat until smooth. Form walnut-sized meatballs.

In a saucepan with a thick bottom, heat the vegetable oil. Peel the onion, cut it into small cubes as much as possible, put it in a saucepan and simmer over minimal heat - until transparent and soft. After that, add the carrots, grated on a fine grater. Put out the buckwheat. Mix well, warming up the buckwheat (we reveal its aroma), then put the diced potatoes in a saucepan and pour the broth (boiling water). After boiling, add the meatballs, reduce the heat and cook until all the ingredients are ready (usually no more than 20 minutes), at the very end, adjust the salt and pepper, add greens if desired.

Delicious with bread on buckwheat flour or buckwheat loaves.

4. Soup with meatballs and rice

Thick and rich, this soup may well become a solo lunch, even for those who are used to eating both the former and the latter. It is satisfying, but not heavy, and therefore will not make you suffer from overeating, but it will not leave you hungry either.

Ingredients:
300 g fresh minced meat;
1/2 tsp hops-suneli;
1/2 tsp paprika;
1/4 tsp granulated garlic;
3 medium potatoes;
1 large carrot;
1/2 cup rice
3 liters of water or broth;
2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil or 25 g of butter;

Mix fresh minced meat with seasonings, form small meat balls.

Choose a thick-walled saucepan, heat the oil and sauté the diced onion on it. At the end, add the carrots, bring them to softness. Throw in potatoes - also cubes. Pour in the washed rice, fill it with water or broth. Bring to a boil, put the meatballs, bay leaf into a saucepan, reduce heat and cook until tender - about 20 minutes. Before serving, add salt, pepper, herbs to taste.

5. Soup with minced chicken meatballs

Very dietary, very light, very weightless soup! Suitable for both those who follow their figure, and those who are anxious proper nutrition children, and those who, for one reason or another, think about therapeutic diet... By the way, if all of the above reasons are past you, try it anyway: the taste of this soup is so delicate that it is simply impossible not to love it.

Ingredients:
300 g fresh chicken fillet;
2 tbsp. l. semolina;
3 medium potatoes;
1 carrot;
1 large handful of vermicelli
3 liters of water or broth;
25 g butter;
salt, pepper, herbs, bay leaf to taste.

Twist the chicken fillet through a meat grinder, add a little salt, mix with semolina, form meat balls the size of a walnut.

In a saucepan with a thick bottom, dissolve the butter, saute the diced onions until soft, and add the carrots grated on a fine grater. After a couple of minutes, add chopped potatoes. Pour in water (broth), bring to a boil, then toss in the meatballs and bay leaf and reduce the heat to a minimum. Cook the soup with a slight boil until tender - about 20 minutes, then add the noodles, boil for a couple of minutes, and at the end add salt, pepper and herbs. We serve immediately. This soup should not be heated, try to cook just as much as you can eat at a time - the noodles, standing in the soup, will swell and become mushy.

6. Recipe for vegetable soup with meatballs

Not a soup, but a kaleidoscope with paints! Red, yellow, green, orange - bright vegetables are spinning in a beautiful dance, and the music that accompanies it sounds amazing: one-two-three, a miracle spoon, one-two-three, a little more, one-two-three, it will be delicious, one-two-three, just hold on!

Ingredients:
250 g fresh minced meat;
3 medium potatoes;
1 large carrot;
1 sweet pepper;
3-4 inflorescences of cauliflower;
2-3 inflorescences of broccoli;
2 tomatoes;
1 handful of asparagus beans
3 liters of water or broth;
2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
salt, pepper, herbs to taste.

We form small meat balls from minced meat - no more than 1 cm in diameter.

Cut all vegetables into small pieces - cubes, circles, stripes. Heat the oil in a saucepan with a thick bottom, toss in the vegetables and saute until soft. Add the meatballs, stew a little more, fill with water, bring to a boil, adjust the salt and pepper, add the herbs and turn off the heat. Let stand for a while under the lid, and then pour into a plate and serve. Delicious with sour cream.

7. Soup with meatballs "Hedgehogs"

And this option, of course, will appeal to children - not only will mom cook soup with meatballs, but funny "hedgehogs" will also live in it! Well, who will be the first to eat everything, how much was given?

Ingredients:
250 g minced veal;
1/3 cup long grain rice
1 carrot;
3 potatoes;
1 onion;
20 g butter;
spices, herbs, salt to taste;
2 liters of vegetable broth or water.

Mix fresh minced meat with rice, form neat balls with a diameter of 1-2 cm, no more.

In a saucepan with a thick bottom, melt the butter and quickly, shaking the pan from time to time, fry the meatballs until a small golden brown- this is necessary so that the "needles" of the hedgehogs open up, but do not fall out.

We peel the carrots, three on a grater, put in a saucepan. Add the peeled and diced potatoes. A whole onion (you can unpeeled - the husk will give the soup a pleasant golden hue). Pour in water or broth, bring the soup to a boil, reduce the heat and cook until the potatoes are cooked. We remove the onions from the pan, do not forget to salt, add spices and herbs if desired and pour into plates.

8. Tomato soup with meatballs

The soup tastes very fresh! Tomato, moody, playful. Summer in a plate, luxury in a spoon. Don't forget about the meatballs - they will turn the soup into a masterpiece.

Ingredients:
300 g fresh minced meat;
2 Kg fresh tomatoes(can be replaced canned tomatoes in its own juice);
1 tsp dry oregano;
100 ml of dry white wine;
3-4 cloves of garlic;
2 heads of onions;
3 tbsp. l. olive oil;
300 ml non-fat cream;
salt, pepper, basil to taste.

Wash the tomatoes, put them in a baking dish, put peeled garlic next to them and put them in the oven for 40 minutes, temperature 180 degrees.
We form small meat balls from minced meat.

Cut the onion into small cubes, sauté in a saucepan for olive oil... When the onion becomes soft and transparent, add the meatballs, stew, pour in the wine, boil over low heat for about 5-7 minutes.

Peel the baked tomatoes, knead with a fork or blender, add the mass to the onion. Bring to a boil, pour in the cream, add salt, pepper, oregano. Turn off the fire. Serve with croutons or dried baguette slices.

9. Potato soup with meatballs

Rich, thick, creamy - you can't refuse such a soup, even if it is without meatballs. And if with them? If with them, then, consider, from the table you will not get out! First - you will eat non-stop, and then - come to your senses from gluttony.

Ingredients:
4 large potatoes;
200 ml non-fat cream;
2.5 liters of broth or water;
300 g minced pork;
25 g butter;
1 onion;
1 carrot;
salt, nutmeg, pepper, herbs to taste.

From minced meat we form small meat balls up to 1 cm in diameter.

Lightly sauté the onion in butter, add the carrots, diced potatoes, pour in the water and cook the vegetables until tender. Puree with a blender, return the pan to the fire and add the meatballs. Boil for about 5 minutes, pour in the cream, mix gently, add salt and spices, serve immediately. Delicious with croutons. Not bad if sprinkled with grated Parmesan.

10. Soup with meatballs in a slow cooker

For those who are friends with a slow cooker, the meatball soup will be a complete and unconditional victory: not only is it for cooking special efforts not required, so it will also work out great!

Ingredients:
250 g minced pork and beef;
2 potatoes;
1 carrot;
1 head of onion;
1 bell pepper;
3 tbsp. l. sour cream;
2 liters of water or broth;
salt, pepper, suneli hops, herbs to taste.

Peel the potatoes, cut into cubes, put them in the multicooker bowl. There are also carrots, onions and peppers, cut into small cubes.

We form small meatballs from minced meat. We put them in the multicooker bowl on top of the vegetables. Add sour cream, spices, salt to taste, pour water or broth. We expose the "soup" program, turn on the multicooker.

Serve with herbs.

10 ideas to diversify your meatball soup recipe

1. Before adding the meatballs to the pot, try lightly frying them in butter (or a mixture of butter and sunflower) - this simple action will not only add a new flavor to familiar dish but will also give a nice golden hue to the broth.

1. Rice, buckwheat, noodles or noodles - all this is familiar and quite expected. And you try a non-standard move - cook the soup on barley, corn grits, oatmeal, or any other unexpected cereal.

1. And if borscht (it doesn't matter - red or green) comes with meatballs, will this also be soup?

1. Green peas, beans, lentils - don't you think that legumes deserve to be cooked with meatball soup? Do not be afraid to experiment, it is from them that culinary masterpieces are born.

1. By the way, would you like to try some fish meatballs? Soup with such ball-balls will be very unexpected and delicious.

1. Kohlrabi, cauliflower, broccoli goes well with the meat component, and if this very component is in the form of meatballs, healthy cabbage can be fed to any child.

1. If you are not alien to oriental trends in cooking, try making a soup with meatballs in the Chinese style - add to the broth soy sauce and leeks, will be extraordinary and colorful.

1. What about Lithuanian meatball soup? Instead of broth, you need to take ... milk. Make up your mind?

1. Rassolnik, by the way, is quite a suitable option to be performed in a new role. Don't be greedy for pickles, and this meatball soup will be a hit in your family.

1. Experimenting with meat? In addition to classic options with pork and beef, you can try horse meat or lamb. Well, or nutria. A rabbit. In general, any exotic is welcome.

Delicious and varied dinners, beautiful soups and many interesting dishes with meatballs!

Most of our compatriots are familiar with the taste of soup with meatballs since childhood. You will be surprised to know that this dish actually belongs to Italian cuisine... But it would be even more surprising if such an invention as meatball soup did not spread around the world. Delicate, hearty and aromatic, it is quick and easy to prepare, and relatively inexpensive. Housewives do not hurt to have in stock several recipes for this first course, which is popular with representatives of all ages.

Cooking features

Meatball soup is one of the easiest first courses to prepare. You can cook it in water or broth. Meatballs can be used ready-made or just made from minced meat. Any mince is also suitable for them: meat, chicken, fish. The principles of preparation depend little on the recipe chosen. Knowing them, even an inexperienced hostess will cope with the task. Moreover, she will be able to improvise, creating author's versions of this unique dish.

• The zealous hostess will never take ready-made frozen meatballs from the store. To mold them from minced meat is a matter of five minutes. There is no point in overpaying for this. If you want to prepare them for future use, then you can freeze the products made with your own hands - in this form they can be stored in the freezer for at least a month.
• Homemade minced meat is not always cheaper than purchased minced meat, but it makes sense to cook it yourself. Homemade minced meat significantly surpasses store-bought quality. You can use several types of meat left over from the preparation of other dishes.
• To make the meatballs more tender, the meat is rolled through a meat grinder twice. It is advisable to turn the fish 3 times in order to exclude the seeds from getting into the minced meat.
• To increase the tenderness and softness of the meatballs, semolina, a loaf soaked in water or milk, are added to the minced meat. They will be more juicy when adding vegetables, lard. Spices will give them a scent, fresh herbs.
• To increase the density of the minced meat, it is beaten off. Only then will the meatballs not fall apart when boiled in soup.
• The question of whether to add eggs to minced meat intended for meatballs is decided individually. With them, it will be more viscous, it will become better to keep its shape when cooking, but the eggs will make the meatballs harder. Experienced chefs successfully do without this ingredient.
• Novice cooks are concerned about how long to cook meatballs and when to put them in broth. The meatballs are considered ready as soon as they float to the surface, but it is not a mistake to cook them after that for another 2-3 minutes. Place the meatballs in the soup about 5 minutes before the other ingredients in the soup are ready. After them, only vermicelli and greens fall asleep. Vegetable frying is laid a little earlier, potatoes - in about 10-15 minutes. The cereals should be added before the potatoes. The time for adding other vegetables to the soup depends on how long it takes to bring them to readiness.

It is due to the fact that a variety of products can be included in the meatball soup that the cooking options for this dish differ so much. Knowing a few of them can help you make meatball soup, even if suitable recipe will not be at hand, relying on their knowledge and experience.

Potato soup with meatballs

• beef - 150 g;
• pork - 150 g;
• loaf - 100 g;
• milk - 100 ml;
• carrots - 100 g;
• onions - 100 g;
• potatoes - 0.35 kg;
• butter - 40 g;
• water - 2.5 l;

Cooking method:

• Pour the loaf with warm milk.
• Rinse the meat, dry with a napkin and cut into pieces. Grind them by passing them through a meat grinder.
• Roll the bread through it, having previously squeezed it out. Combine with minced meat.
• Finely chop the herbs, put some in the minced meat, leave the rest for the soup.
• Season the minced meat with salt and pepper. Knead it with your hands and beat it off. Place in the refrigerator for a while.
• Peel the potatoes, cut into cubes about 1 cm in size.
• Peel the carrots and onions.
• Finely chop the onion, chop the carrots on a grater.
• Melt the butter in a frying pan, fry the vegetables in it until soft.
• Pour water into a saucepan, put on fire.
• When the water in the saucepan boils, add salt, pepper, laurel leaf to it. Dip the potatoes into it. Wait 10 minutes.
• Add the toasted vegetables, wait another 2-3 minutes.
• Remove the minced meat from the refrigerator. Pour cold water into a separate bowl.
• While wetting your hands, form balls 1.5-2 cm in size and throw them into the boiling soup.
• Wait for all the meatballs to float.
• Add greens, cook soup for 2 minutes and remove from heat.

It is advisable to let the soup steep for 10-20 minutes, then it will become tastier and more aromatic. You can cook the first dish according to this recipe in a multicooker. In this case, first the onions and carrots are fried using the "Bake" program, then water is poured in, the rest of the ingredients, including the meatballs, are added. Further cooking is carried out in the "Quenching" mode for 40 minutes.

Rice soup with meatballs

• minced meat - 0.5 kg;
• potatoes - 0.5 kg;
• carrots - 100 g;
• onions - 0.2 kg;
• garlic - 1 clove;
• rice groats - 80 g;
• tomatoes - 0.5 kg;
• tomato paste - 40 ml;
• vegetable oil - 80 ml;
• water - 3.5 l;
• salt, pepper, fresh herbs - to taste.

Cooking method:

• Peel the onion and chop it finely. Add half the onion to the minced meat.
• Squeeze the garlic into the minced meat, pepper it, salt. Knead with your hands. Beat on a bowl and refrigerate.
• Pour boiling water over the tomatoes, peel. Cut the tomato pulp into small cubes.
• Scratch the carrots to remove the top soiled layer. Wash, dry, rub.
• Heat oil in a skillet. Put onions and carrots in it. Saute until the vegetables are golden brown.
• Add tomatoes to the pan, simmer for 10 minutes.
• Rinse the rice until clean. Fill it with water, put it on fire. Cook for 10 minutes after the water boils.
• Peel the potatoes, cut them into small cubes, send them to the saucepan with the rice. Salt and pepper the soup.
• After 10 minutes, add the vegetable fry and tomato paste to the soup. Continue cooking the soup for another 5 minutes.
• Shape and dip the meatballs into the soup. After they float to the surface, add greens and turn off the burner.

After infusing the soup under the lid for 15 minutes, pour it into bowls and serve. Make sure the meatballs are on each plate.

Soup with meatballs in meat broth is cooked according to the same principle.

If you are looking for a recipe for making soup with fish meatballs, it is advisable to use the given recipe, the taste will turn out to be harmonious.

Noodle soup with meatballs and mushrooms

• chicken or ground beef - 0.35 kg;
• potatoes - 0.4 kg;
• spider web vermicelli - 50 g;
• fresh champignons - 0.2 kg;
• onions - 0.2 kg;
• carrots - 100 g;
• tomato paste - 20 ml;
• vegetable oil - how much will it take;
• water or broth - 3 l;
• bay leaf - 2 pcs.;
• salt, spices - to taste.

Cooking method:

• Peel the bulbs. Grate one, cut the other into medium-sized cubes.
• Put the grated onion into the minced meat. Season it, salt it. After kneading and beating on a bowl, put in the refrigerator.
• Peel and grate the carrots, mix with the onions.
• Heat oil, put chopped vegetables in it and fry until golden brown.
• Wash the mushrooms. Blot with a napkin, cut into small cubes.
• Put the mushrooms with vegetables, cook until the liquid released from the mushrooms evaporates from the pan.
• Add tomato paste, fry for another 3-4 minutes, remove from heat.
• Put water or broth in a saucepan and bring it to a boil.
• Peel the potatoes, cut into cubes and dip in boiling liquid.
• After 10 minutes, add the vegetable fry with mushrooms and laurel leaves to the pan.
• After 5 minutes, shape the minced meat into balls, dip them in the boiling broth.
• When the meatballs rise to the surface, mark for 2 minutes.
• After the indicated time, remove the saucepan with the soup from the heat, let the soup brew and serve, pouring into plates.

Any broth can be used for the soup. If you decide to cook soup for chicken broth, meatballs are best made from minced chicken.

Vegetable soup with meatballs

• minced meat - 0.35 kg;
• cabbage - 0.3 kg;
• potatoes - 0.3 kg;
• sweet pepper - 0.2 kg;
• carrots - 100 g;
• onions - 0.2 kg;
• tomatoes - 0.3 kg;
• water - 2.5 l;
• vegetable or butter - 40 ml;
• salt, pepper - to taste.

Cooking method:

• Chop the cabbage.
• Peel the potatoes, cut them into small cubes.
• Chop the onion with a knife, add half to the minced meat.
• Chop the carrots on a grater, combine with the remaining onions.
• Sauté the carrots and onions in oil.
• Peel the tomatoes by pouring boiling water over them, cut them into small pieces and put them in a pan with other vegetables. Simmer all together for 5 minutes.
• Pepper seeds, cut into small squares.
• Bring water to a boil, put potatoes in it.
• As soon as the water boils again, add the cabbage and pepper.
• After 10 minutes, add the rest of the vegetables to the pot.
• After 5 minutes, dip the meatballs into the soup. Cook them for 5-8 minutes.
• After removing the pan from the heat, let the soup steep.

By the same principle, you can cook soup with meatballs from other vegetables. It is delicious when you add green peas, cauliflower.

Meatball soup is quick and easy to prepare. You can cook it from different products... Knowing the principles of cooking this first course, the hostess can make it according to author's recipes.