This is a quick and simple soup, but it is generally a favorite among many. Sometimes it seems like what else can be invented there? However, there is room for imagination here too. So today there will be two recipes. For one, we will take small vermicelli, and we will traditionally cook the meatballs in broth. And the second will have long thin noodles and baked meatballs. Both with photos and step by step.
Soup with meatballs and small vermicelli
For meatballs, you can use any minced meat: pork, beef, mixed or chicken. It doesn’t matter, any choice will be delicious in its own way. I had pork. As for onions: I always put them through a meat grinder along with the meat, but I also definitely put them in when cooking. There won't be much of it. The one in the minced meat gives it juiciness, but itself is not felt at all.
Ingredients for a 3.5 liter pan:
- minced meat – 300g;
- potatoes – 200g;
- vermicelli – 70g;
- carrots – 1 piece;
- onion – 1 head;
- salt and ground black pepper - to taste;
- bay leaf – 1 piece;
- sunflower oil – 1 tbsp.
How to cook:
Take minced beef or chicken, remove pepper from the recipe, and do not fry vegetables - carrots and onions, then the soup will be completely dietary and perfect for baby food.
We serve the finished soup to the table and invite everyone to dinner. If desired, finely chopped greens can be placed directly on a plate or served separately so that everyone can take as much as they want.
Soup with baked meatballs and vermicelli
Now let’s move on to the second step-by-step recipe for making soup with meatballs, only we will have long vermicelli in it. We will need more time for it, since we will pre-bake the meat balls in the oven. How to do this, let's look at the photo below.
Ingredients:
- minced meat (pork + beef) – 400g;
- hard cheese – 50g;
- breadcrumbs - 3 tbsp;
- long vermicelli – 100g;
- salt, pepper and spices for meat - to taste.
Preparing the soup:
As you can see, both versions of the soup are very simple to prepare; they are different, but equally tasty. Prepare, try. Enjoy your meal!
I made the minced meat myself, using two types of meat: pork and beef in equal proportions. Cut the meat into small pieces and grind it using a meat grinder. Add spices to taste and a few spoons of semolina to the prepared minced meat, thanks to which the meatballs will keep their round shape and will not boil over during cooking. To stir thoroughly.
Roll the minced meat into medium-sized meat balls.
Place meatballs in a pan filled with water. Cook over medium heat until it boils, then use a sieve or slotted spoon to skim off any foam that has formed.
Peel the potatoes and cut into small pieces. Add it to the boiling soup. Season with spices to taste and add a bay leaf. Continue cooking over medium heat for 15 minutes.
Carrots and onion clean and wash in running water. Grind the carrots on a coarse grater and the onion into small cubes. Place vegetables in a hot frying pan with vegetable oil. Fry the vegetables until golden brown for 5-7 minutes, do not forget to stir them constantly. After this, add the carrots and onions to the pan with the soup and cook for another 15 minutes over moderate heat.
The last ingredient you need to add to the soup is vermicelli (mine is made from durum wheat, so it took longer to cook than usual). Boil for 5-7 minutes, turn off the soup and let it brew for a few more minutes.
Pour the finished soup with meatballs and noodles into bowls, add finely chopped fresh dill and you can serve the aromatic first course to the table! You can replace vermicelli in the recipe with rice and it will work out
Meatball soup - admit it, who doesn't love it? And if you add vermicelli to it, you get the most popular and successful option. Our family likes soup with meatballs and noodles, from small to large, it turns out rich and satisfying, due to the meatballs from minced pork. More dietary option This soup can be prepared with chicken meatballs. Meatballs can be made in advance and stored in the freezer, which will speed up the preparation of a delicious first course.
So, let's start making meatball and noodle soup. Prepare water, minced pork, salt, ground black pepper, onion, carrots, vegetable oil, vermicelli, potatoes, dried or fresh herbs, bay leaf. Peel the potatoes, cut them into cubes, place them in a saucepan, add water and set to simmer (after boiling, add salt to the water and turn the heat to low). Add salt and black pepper to the minced pork and stir. Prepare onions (small cubes) and carrots (finely grated) for frying.
Fry on vegetable oil onions and carrots, form the minced meat into balls, smaller in size and larger in quantity.
Place the meatballs into the pan with the boiled potatoes.
When they float to the surface (the heat is strong), transfer the frying from the frying pan into the pan and add small vermicelli.
Boil the soup for 8 minutes, controlling the degree of boiling of the soup, add dried herbs grated between your palms or fresh chopped ones, add bay leaf and a little ground pepper (pepper can be omitted if you are preparing soup for children).
Set the soup aside, let it sit for 5-6 minutes, and then pour into bowls and serve.
Enjoy your meal!!!
There is a huge amount interesting recipes first courses. But sometimes you don’t want to cook anything complicated. In this case, you should cook soup with meatballs and noodles from childhood.
Ingredients: 320 g mixed minced meat(pork + chicken), 3 potatoes, onion, 80 g small vermicelli, a piece of butter, a table egg, a medium carrot, a pinch of soup spice mixture, fine salt.
- To begin with, frying is prepared from chopped vegetables (onions, carrots). It tastes best with melted butter or ghee. First, the onion cubes are fried, and then the grated carrots.
- The potatoes are peeled, washed, cut into bars.
- The minced meat is mixed with the roast and salted. Small balls are molded from it.
- The water in the pan is salted and the selected seasonings are added to it. The potatoes are cooked in this liquid until soft.
- Next, frying is added. You can also use bay leaves.
- Minced meat balls go into the soup. It is necessary to remove the foam that appears from the surface.
- Then the vermicelli is poured into the pan.
About a couple of minutes before the dish is ready, pour a beaten egg into it.
With minced chicken and broth
Ingredients: large carrots, 2 large spoons of spider web vermicelli, 340 g minced chicken, 2 l chicken broth, fine salt, 3 potatoes, spices, large spoon of tomato paste, 180 g raw champignons, 2 onions.
- Frying mushroom slices, chopped onions (1 piece) and carrots is prepared in vegetable oil. The mixture is prepared until the excess liquid evaporates. Next, tomato paste is added to the ingredients. Together, the ingredients simmer for a couple more minutes.
- The remaining onion is finely chopped and mixed with the minced meat. Miniature balls are rolled out of the salted mass.
- The broth is brought to a boil, potato bars are lowered into it and brought to half-cookedness.
- Meat preparations are immersed in the future soup. When the meatballs float to the surface, you can salt the treat and add seasonings.
- Lastly, the vermicelli goes into the pan and is fried.
It remains to cook the soup for another 3-4 minutes. After cooking, the dish should sit.
Step-by-step recipe with tomato sauce
Ingredients: 360 g of minced beef, 2 onions, a carrot, a table egg, a bunch of fresh herbs, 2 tablespoons of tomato paste, a pinch of table salt and granulated sugar, bay leaf, 1-3 garlic cloves.
- TO ground beef add finely grated onion and crushed garlic to taste.
- IN meat mass add a slightly beaten egg and salt. Finely chopped greens are also added there. The ingredients are mixed well. Balls are rolled out of the mass.
- Meatballs are immersed in boiling salted water with a bay leaf and cooked for 6-7 minutes. You need to remove the foam.
- The remaining onions and carrots are fried. Then it simmers for a couple of minutes on the stove with tomato paste and sugar.
- The contents of the frying pan are transferred to the soup.
The treat simmers until cooked over low heat for about 15 minutes.
How to cook in a slow cooker?
Ingredients: 270 g of minced pork, 3 medium potato tubers, large carrots, white onions, a bunch of dill, 1.5 liters of filtered water, table salt to taste, aromatic herbs. How to cook meatball soup in a “smart pan” is described in detail below.
- Minced pork is salted and sprinkled with aromatic herbs. To make the taste of the mixture brighter and more interesting, you need to pour finely chopped dill into it. The resulting mass is divided into miniature pieces, which are rolled into balls.
- Carrots are cut into slices. If the vegetable is very sweet, then you can reduce its amount in the dish.
- The potatoes need to be washed well, peeled and cut into small longitudinal slices.
- The onion is peeled and finely chopped.
- All pre-prepared ingredients are placed in the bowl of the device. They are filled with water from above.
- The dish is prepared in a program designed for soup. Depending on the power of the device, this will take from 60 to 90 minutes.
If you want to get a richer, fatty soup, then the first thing you can do is fry onions and carrots for butter in baking mode.
Turkey meatball and egg noodle soup
Ingredients: 420 g prepared minced turkey, 120 g egg noodles, onion, garlic clove, carrot, 4 medium potato tubers, small sweet bell pepper, table egg, table salt, Italian herbs.
- Crushed garlic, a slightly beaten egg, salt, and Italian herbs are added to the minced meat. Miniature strong balls are molded from the resulting mass.
- Meatballs are immersed in boiling salted water along with potato wedges. They need to be cooked for 12-14 minutes over medium heat.
- Vegetables are chopped in any convenient way and sautéed together in a frying pan sprinkled with refined oil. This will take about 8-9 minutes. It is most convenient to cut carrots and peppers into cubes, and onions into cubes.
- The contents of the frying pan are transferred to the pan. Goes there too egg noodles. You need to cook the soup for another 5-6 minutes.