Meatball soup; step by step recipes

Soup with meatballs - step-by-step recipes

Many different meatball soup recipes. This soup is light and very filling. It is liked by adults and children. The dish can always be varied. For example, instead of potatoes add rice or pearl barley. An extraordinary soup made with buckwheat.

Traditional soup with meatballs step by step recipe with photos

In the traditional recipe, meatballs are made from minced meat without adding grains. The little meat balls mix perfectly with the broth and potatoes. That’s why the dish turns out nourishing and tasty.

Ingredients:

• Minced meat – 300 gr. It is better to take minced meat from chicken or turkey fillet. If you want the dish to be satisfying, then minced lamb or mixed (pork and beef) will do;
• Onion – 1 head;
• Chicken egg – 1 piece;
• Carrots – 1 piece;
• Tomato – 1 piece;
• Salt, pepper - to taste;
• Vegetable oil – 1 tablespoon;
• Potatoes – 3 pieces;
• The freshest greens.

Manufacturing method:

1. Grate the onion on a small grater, mix it with minced meat and eggs;
2. Place the minced meat in the refrigerator for 15 minutes;
3. Grate carrots and sauté together with onions and vegetable oil;
4. Add finely chopped tomato to the carrots, sauté until the moisture evaporates;
5. We take out the minced meat and begin to form small meat balls with wet hands;
6. Place a couple of bay leaves and meatballs into boiling water;
7. Add finely chopped potatoes to the broth;
8. After 10 minutes, add carrots with onions and tomatoes;
9. Cook for another 5-7 minutes;
10. Turn off the heat and let the soup brew for 10-15 minutes;
11. Before serving, decorate the dish with fresh herbs.

Hearty meatball soup: recipe with photos

A step-by-step recipe for soup with meatballs will allow you to quickly and accurately prepare the first dish. A light soup will be more filling if you add rice to the meatballs. There are 2 options for making this dish: with fried and regular boiled meatballs.

Ingredients:

• Minced meat – 250 g;
• Rice – 3 tablespoons;
• Garlic - 2 cloves;
• Egg – 1 piece;
• Potatoes – 4 pieces;
• Carrots – 1 piece;
• Onion – 1 piece;
• Tomato – 1 piece;
• Vegetable oil;
• Salt and pepper to taste.

Manufacturing method:

1. Pass the garlic through a press and add to the minced meat;
2. Beat the egg and rice into the minced meat and grate half of the onion on a small grater;
3. Mix the minced meat well, add salt and pepper, and leave for 15 minutes;
4. Sauté finely chopped onions and carrots in vegetable oil, then add potatoes and tomatoes. Close the lid. Stir constantly so that the vegetables do not burn. If there is not enough water, you can add water;
5. We form meatballs from minced meat. They can be fried in vegetable oil for 5-7 minutes until a brown crust appears;
6. Place the vegetables in a saucepan, add water, and bring to a boil;
7. Place the meatballs in the broth and cook for 15 minutes if they were fried and 25 minutes if they were raw.

You can add pearl barley or buckwheat to the soup with meatballs. In this case, everything is done in the order indicated in the first recipe. Just add 2-3 tablespoons of pearl barley or buckwheat to boiling water. The cereals are cooked for 20-25 minutes, then meatballs, fried carrots and onions, and potatoes are added to them.

Meatball soup is perfect for lunch. It has a meaty smell and at the same time is very light.

Meatball soup

Soup with meatballs is the most delicious, easy both for the stomach and in terms of production. Save the recipe!

Now we will prepare meatballs with rice in gravy with potatoes - it will be something between a soup and a main course (the less water, the thicker, adjust according to your taste).

In principle, you can create meatballs from ground beef, but this time I used a mixture of pork and beef. I added chopped onions for flavor, and a chicken egg for gluing. The only spices I used were ground dark pepper. It turned out very tasty and satisfying, the potatoes and vegetables had time to cook, and the meatballs retained their shape. Try it!

Ingredients

• minced pork and beef – 500 g
• rice – 0.5 tbsp.
• salt and pepper - to taste
• potatoes – 600 g
• water – approximately 1.5 l
• large onions – 2 pcs.
• large carrots – 1 pc.
• bell pepper – 1 pc.
• vegetable oil – 2-3 tbsp. l.
• tomato paste – 1 tbsp. l.
• egg – 1 pc.
• greens - for serving

Manufacturing

Prepare minced meat for meatballs. Cut a large onion into cubes. In a bowl with minced meat, add onion, washed rice, also a chicken egg, salt (1 tsp) and pepper (1/3 tsp).

Mix the minced meat well. Form meatballs - large ones, weighing approximately 75-80 g.

To fry, cut the onion into quarter rings, the bell pepper into small cubes, and grate the carrots on a large grater. In a saucepan with a thick bottom (take a wide one, if you have one at home, this will make it easier for you to cook soup, skim off the foam, etc.) heat a couple of tablespoons of vegetable oil. Fry the onion until soft.

Then add carrots. Fry for another 3-4 minutes.

At the end, add a spoonful of tomato paste and bell pepper. Fry for 2 minutes.

Add peeled potatoes, cut into four pieces. Pour boiling water above the level of the potatoes. Salt the water to taste.

Place the meatballs on top of the potatoes.

Cover with a lid and cook until tender, 30-40 minutes. Sprinkle the finished dish with chopped herbs. Bon appetit!

Step-by-step recipe for making soup with meatballs

Soup with meatballs is a great help when you want to prepare a simple but satisfying dish for lunch. I often cook it during family trips to the country. Ordinary ingredients make excellent soup.

Meatball soup recipe with photo

Ingredients

Cooking steps

1. First, let's use minced meat to create meatballs for the soup. Finely chop the onion and place it in a bowl. Add minced meat, 30 g of rice, egg, salt.
   
2. Knead the minced meat thoroughly.
   
3. Pour a little flour onto a plate, form the minced meat into balls and roll them in flour.
   
4. Heat a little sunflower oil in a frying pan and lay out the meatballs. Cover the pan with a lid and fry the meatballs on both sides until golden brown.
   
5. Finely chop the remaining onions and carrots.
   
6. Remove the skins from the tomatoes and cut them very finely. We also cut the sweet pepper into small pieces.
7. Peel the potatoes and cut into medium pieces.
   
8. Boil water in a saucepan, add meatballs and potatoes. Add the remaining rice to the pan and stir. Leave on medium heat.
   
9. Heat the sunflower oil in a frying pan and add the carrots, onions and peppers, mix and fry for three minutes. Add tomatoes and tomato paste to the pan, stir and cook for three minutes.
   
10. Transfer the finished frying into a saucepan, stir, add salt and cook until the potatoes are ready.
    

Video recipe for soup with meatballs

From the video you can find out how to make soup with meatballs.

Soup with minced pork meatballs

• Cooking time: 70 minutes.
• We will need: a saucepan, a bowl, a frying pan.
• Number of servings: 5.

Ingredients

Cooking steps

1. Peel and finely chop one onion. Mix chopped onion, minced meat, rice, egg, a little salt in a bowl and knead very carefully.
   
2. We form small balls from the minced meat.
   
3. Heat the sunflower oil in a frying pan and lay out the meatballs. Fry them until golden brown on both sides.
   
4. Chop carrots, potatoes and onions with a knife.
   
5. Heat the sunflower oil in a frying pan, add the onion and carrots and fry until the carrots are soft.
   
6. Boil water in a saucepan and add the meatballs. Then add the roast, potatoes, salt and mix.
   
7. Finely chop the dill and add to the soup. Stir and cook until the potatoes are ready.
   

Video recipe for soup with minced pork meatballs

From this video you can find out how to create meatballs for soup.

Soup with meatballs in a slow cooker

• Cooking time: 70 minutes.
• We will need: bowls, a slow cooker.
• Number of servings: 7.

Products

Cooking steps

1. We wash and clean the vegetables. Finely chop the onion and grate the carrots.
   
2. Pour sunflower oil into the multicooker, add onions and carrots, select the “Baking” option and fry for four minutes.
   
3. Cut the sweet pepper finely and put it in a slow cooker.
   
4. While the vegetables are fried, grate the onion on a small grater and mix with the minced meat.
   
5. We form small balls from the minced meat.
   
6. Peel the potatoes, cut them into medium pieces and transfer them to the slow cooker.
   
7. Add meatballs, salt and pour boiling water. Select the “Soup” option (45 minutes).
   
8. When the program is finished, add vermicelli and let it brew for 15 minutes under the lid.
   

Video recipe for soup with meatballs in a slow cooker

The following video will introduce you to the recipe for a hearty soup with meatballs in a slow cooker.

Good advice

• Meatballs can be made from different types of minced meat with the addition of spices to suit your taste.
• You can skip adding potatoes to the meatball soup and create a light vegetable soup.

Anyone can choose vegetables for this soup according to their own taste. In the summer, I like to make cool sorrel soup, which has a pleasant, slightly sour taste.

Not long ago I decided to experiment with first courses from different cuisines around the world. First I made tom yum soup. It has a very captivating taste that comes from combining seafood with chicken. Onion soup is more difficult to make compared to other soups, but its taste compensates for all the effort and time.

Soup with meatballs - 5 step-by-step recipes

Soup with meatballs is a common, but at the same time satisfying and appetizing dish. There are no serious restrictions in its production. For meatballs, you can take any kind of meat, put various cereals, mushrooms, vegetables, as well as spices and herbs into the soup. Every time you can prepare a soup with a completely different taste and smell.

Meatball soup - traditional recipe

Almost all housewives believe that soup with meatballs and meatballs are the same thing. But there is a difference, meatballs are made from meat and placed raw in the soup. Meatballs are minced meat and rice; the products are first fried and only later added to the broth.

Ingredients:

• 2-3 potato tubers;
• carrot and two onions;
• one tomato;
• spices, oil;
• 420 g homemade minced meat;
• 115 g rice;
• one testicle;
• 35 g flour.

Manufacturing method:

1. Usually rice grains are placed in meatballs, but if desired, they can be replaced with other grains, for example, pearl barley or buckwheat.
2. Put minced meat in a bowl, it’s better to take homemade pork and beef, add cereal (no need to boil), finely chopped onion, spices and beat in an egg, mix everything thoroughly.
3. Now we make meatballs from the minced meat, bread them in flour and fry them in oil until golden.
4. Chop the remaining onion, cut the carrots into strips, and sauté the vegetables until soft. Then we put in the tomato, from which you need to remove the skin and cut it into small cubes. Simmer the vegetables for another 5 minutes.
5. Place the meatballs into boiling water, as soon as the contents of the pan boil again, add large cubes of potatoes, and after 5 minutes you can add the fried vegetables and add spices.
6. Cook the soup for 15-20 minutes, when serving, sprinkle the dish with herbs.

Potato soup with meatballs

You can make any kind of soup with meatballs. For example, you can prepare mashed potato soup; the dish will be tasty and unusual when served.

Ingredients:

• two carrots and onions;
• 5 potato tubers;
• 155 g pumpkin;
• 455 g homemade minced meat;
• 55 g grains of rice;
• one testicle;
• spices, olive oil.

Manufacturing method:

1. For the meatballs, mix the minced meat with spices, rice grains and eggs. From the acquired mass we form meatballs and fry them in olive oil.
2. In the same oil, fry the chopped carrots and onions.
3. Place pumpkin and potato cubes in a pan of bubbling water. After boiling again, add the fried vegetables and spices.
4. Once the vegetables become soft, grind them with a blender, return the soup to the stove, add the meatballs, bring to a boil and turn off the heat.

Pea

If you think that the most delicious pea soup can be cooked only with smoked meat, then you are mistaken, try cooking it with meatballs.

Ingredients:

• three onions and one carrot;
• three potatoes;
• one tomato;
• 220 g peas;
• 320 g minced meat;
• 55 g rice grains;
• spices, herbs;
• butter, sour cream.

Manufacturing method:

1. For the recipe, you can take ordinary peas, but to cook a quick soup without soaking and long boiling of the beans, we will take canned peas.
2. First, we will prepare meatballs for the minced meat soup; to do this, finely chop one onion and add it to the minced meat along with grains of rice, eggs and spices. Stir, form meatballs and fry in oil until golden brown.
3. Now we are sauteing the vegetables, for this we cut the carrots into narrow strips and chop the remaining onion. Once the onions and carrots become soft, add tomato cubes, from which you must first remove the skin, and simmer the ingredients for 5 minutes.
4. Add a little salt and fry vegetables to a saucepan with bubbling water, after 5 minutes add the meatballs and diced potatoes, cook for 10 minutes, add the peas, and bring the soup to readiness.
5. Serve with sour cream and herbs.

With fish balls

For meatballs, you can use any kind of meat, even fish. The result is a very appetizing and rich soup, which all fans of fish dishes will certainly appreciate.

Ingredients:

• half a kilo of fish fillet;
• three potatoes;
• three carrots;
• leek;
• one sweet pepper;
• celery;
• two spoons of semolina;
• 115 g processed cheese;
• two cloves of garlic;
• lemon juice;
• 2.5 glasses of milk;
• two cloves of garlic;
• three tablespoons of soy seasoning;
• spices, olive oil.

Manufacturing method:

1. Take the fish fillet, the greenish part of the leek and pass the ingredients through a meat grinder.
2. Pour a little citrus juice into the resulting mass, add spices, semolina and mix everything thoroughly. We make meatballs from minced meat.
3. Now put half rings of leeks, thin carrot strips and slices of spicy vegetables squeezed through a press into a saucepan with heated oil, sauté the ingredients until golden brown.
4. Then add cubes of celery, sweet pepper, potatoes, pour in hot water, after 15 minutes add milk and add cubes of processed cheese.
5. Once all the vegetables become soft, lower the meatballs, cook the soup for another 10 minutes, turn off the heat and give the dish a little more time to brew.

In a slow cooker

The multicooker has become a true assistant in the kitchen and helps out almost all housewives at the moment when it is necessary to quickly and deliciously feed the family, the main thing is to choose a suitable step-by-step recipe for the first course.

Ingredients:

• 485 g homemade minced meat;
• one onion and one carrot each;
• two cloves of garlic;
• one testicle;
• three small potatoes;
• 75 g grains of rice;
• oil, spices.

Manufacturing method:

1. Place the minced meat in a bowl, add chopped onion, garlic, spices and grains of rice, and beat in an egg. Knead the mixture thoroughly and form meatballs from it.
2. Turn on the device to the “Baking” mode, pour oil into the bowl and add carrot and onion sticks, fry the vegetables for 7 minutes.
3. Then add the potato wedges, spices, meatballs, fill everything with water and continue cooking the soup according to the “Stew” program for 40 minutes.
4. Serve the finished dish with rye crackers and herbs.

Soup with meatballs is a very satisfying dish.

If you want to create the lightest soup, you need to remove the potatoes and add more vegetables.