A dinner familiar to everyone consists of the first dish (soup, cabbage soup or borscht), the second with a side dish and vegetable salad. Every housewife knows how difficult it is to please home and serve a dish that will appeal to all family members, especially young children, whose fastidiousness in food is known to every mother. Today we will talk about
how to cook meatballs for soup, the recipe of which in several versions you will find in our article. A light broth with vegetables and balls of meat will surely appeal to fastidious kids, and adults will not disregard your culinary talents.
How to make meatballs for soup: recipe number 1 - classic
To prepare delicious and juicy meat balls, you will need the following ingredients:
- half a kilogram of minced meat, any one will do: beef, pork or a mixture;
- 50 ml of milk;
- crumb of half a loaf (crusts need to be cut);
- To taste a little salt and pepper.
Soak the bread in milk, it will be enough to lower it into a liquid for 5 minutes, and then turn it into a soft, homogeneous mass using your hands or a blender. Mix with minced meat, salt and pepper. By the way, if you want to make airy, melting meat balls in your mouth, pass the meat through a meat grinder 2-3 times. Cooking meatballs will not take you even 20 minutes: moisten your hands with water or egg white and from the mass, fashion small, with walnut, koloboks. It is not necessary to make a new serving each time when preparing soup. You may well freeze part of the balls and use the workpiece later. To do this, proceed as follows: put the meatballs on a
cutting board and put in the freezer for several hours. After this time, take them out of the refrigerator and put them portionwise into packages, in each - 15-20 pieces. Simple and convenient.
Soup meatballs: recipe number 2 - especially for children
If your child doesn’t want to eat the first dish at all, then offer him such an unusual dish, where it’s not octopus, but real “octopuses” that swim. To prepare this miracle you will need:
- 300 g of minced meat of your choice;
- 10 pieces. spaghetti (yes, exactly 10 long thin pasta);
- a quarter of the bulb;
- salt, egg yolk and black pepper.
Finely chop the onion or grate it on a coarse grater, add to the minced meat mixed with yolk, salt and pepper. You should get a homogeneous meat mass. Now we make the meatballs for the soup. The recipe contains a little secret: to make an octopus, first make a small meat ball, then break 1 long pasta into 3 parts and just pierce the meatball with them. In the process of cooking, the spaghetti will boil, and along the edges of the buns you will get beautiful pasta legs. The child will certainly enjoy such an unusual soup. Now you know how to cook meatballs. Keep in mind that they are usually dipped in a pot 15 minutes before the end of cooking. And if you prepare meat balls for the future, as described in recipe number 1, then you can cook a tasty and light soup literally in half an hour.