Small balls made from minced chicken - meatballs - are a very convenient universal product.
Add them to any broth or vegetable broth, add cereal or pasta, frying, your favorite herbs and the soup is ready. And the variations with spices and seasonings are almost limitless.
Frozen meatballs and ready-made broth allow you to prepare soups in a matter of minutes.
Chicken meatball soup - general cooking principles
• Soups are cooked in chicken broth. Place one and a half kilograms of chicken meat on the bones in two liters of filtered water. You can use wings, bones and other parts of the carcass left over from cutting up the chicken for minced meat to prepare the broth.
• Boil the broth for an hour and a half after boiling, periodically removing the foam from the surface with a slotted spoon.
• Salt to taste half an hour before the end of cooking.
• The main ingredient of the dish is small meat balls, slightly larger than a walnut.
• These balls are quick and easy to prepare. The chicken meat is removed from the bones, cut into small pieces and minced in a meat grinder with a fine grid. Mix with browned onions and water. Add hand-ground black pepper, salt, and raw chicken eggs. Stir and cut into small balls.
• To obtain half a kilogram of minced meat, take two onions, a tablespoon of water, and fifty grams of butter.
• These soups are served sprinkled with onion greens; dill and parsley are also good.
How to make delicious meatballs for soup
Now let's look step by step, not how to prepare the minced meat, but how to prepare the meat balls themselves.
The simplest option is rice. You can add either raw rice, washed with water, or already boiled, ready-made rice.
Of course, greens. Traditionally - dill, parsley. Less traditional, but also interesting - mint, cilantro.
For taste, you can add mustard, in addition to the usual salt and ground black pepper. Approximately 1 tbsp. for 500 grams of minced meat.
Knead and form balls ranging in size from 2 cm to 4 cm in diameter. Typically, the smaller the meatballs, the nicer they look in the soup.
When cooked in soup, the bitterness of the mustard will disappear, but the aroma will remain.
You can put a cube of cheese inside the meatballs.
For fluffiness, you can add breadcrumbs. And for taste, finely grated hard cheese.
The meat balls can even be pre-baked in the oven. A crust will form on them, they will become more appetizing, and the soup as a whole will acquire a richer taste.
French-style chicken meatball soup
A simple, almost lean soup that takes just over half an hour to prepare. If you mash some of the potatoes with a masher in the finished soup, then kids will eat this dish with appetite; for them, you can remove the seasoning from the recipe.
• Parsley and celery root – 40 grams each;
• 200 grams of kohlrabi;
• 3 tablespoons of soft butter;
• A third of a teaspoon of curry;
• Chopped young dill and curly parsley.
1. Using a special grater, chop celery and parsley roots, kohlrabi, and carrots into small strips.
2. Cut the potatoes into large slices, finely chop the onion.
3. Fry the onion in butter until it becomes transparent.
4. Add chopped roots and carrots. Stir fry for five minutes.
5. Sprinkle with curry and mix thoroughly.
6. Place a pan of water on high heat, add potatoes and bring to a boil.
7. Add meatballs. Cook at low simmer for twenty minutes.
8. Add kohlrabi, fry, add salt. We bring it to readiness.
9. Sprinkle with finely chopped herbs.
Beef Meatball Soup Recipe
Another simple option for preparing a light and flavorful dish. Not only adults, but also children love him. The satiety of the soup is ensured not only by the meat balls, but also by the pasta.
Ingredients:
- 325 g beef;
- 3 onions;
- carrots;
- yolk;
- 4 potatoes;
- 2 tbsp. spoons of butter;
- 55 g pasta;
- salt and herbs.
Cooking method:
- Place a 2-liter saucepan on the fire and bring water to a boil;
- At this time, wash the meat and remove excess fat, films, etc. After that, cut it into cubes and pass through a meat grinder. Chop 2 onions in the same way. To prepare meat balls, combine beef, yolk, salt, and onion. Mix everything thoroughly and form meatballs;
- Place them in boiling water one at a time. Stir gently to ensure nothing sticks to the bottom. Cook for 20 minutes. on low heat. If foam has formed on the surface, be sure to remove it;
- Cut the onion into small cubes and fry it in hot oil. Add grated carrots and fry for 3 minutes, stirring constantly;
- Cut the peeled potatoes into cubes and add them to the soup. After boiling again, add frying. In 8 min. Add noodles and salt before finishing cooking. Cook until done, sprinkle with herbs and serve.
Vegetable soup with chicken meatballs
A light soup that is usually served to improve appetite. It will be just wonderful if after the New Year's feast you treat your guests and loved ones to it.
• Chicken broth;
• 200 gr. frozen peas;
• One canned sweet pepper;
• Several medium cloves of garlic;
• 20 ml sunflower oil, plus two tbsp. spoons of sweet cream;
• Parsley – a couple of sprigs.
1. Chop canned peppers and carrots into strips.
2. Chop the garlic.
3. Fry onion cut into small pieces in boiling water. oil until transparent.
4. Add butter, crushed or crushed garlic. Simmer on low heat for two minutes.
5. Pour chicken broth into the pan. Add sweet peppers, carrots, green peas, and simmer for fifteen minutes.
6. Add meatballs.
7. When the meatballs float to the surface, add fried onions, salt, and spices.
8. After seven minutes, remove from heat.
9. It is advisable to garnish the soup poured into bowls with fresh parsley.
Italian soup with chicken meatballs “Wedding”
In the traditions of European cuisine, various light soups are served at the wedding feast. The Italians prepare cheese soup with meatballs, we will try this dish too. If you don’t have a specific type of cheese, you can use any other with a pronounced taste.
• Basic chicken broth;
• A quarter cup of grated Parmesan cheese;
• 150 grams of spinach;
• A couple of sprigs of curly parsley.
1. When you cook the meatballs, add chopped parsley and chopped garlic to the minced meat.
2. Finely grate Parmesan.
3. Cook the pasta until half cooked, drain in a colander and rinse.
4. Chop the spinach.
5. Place meatballs and pasta into boiling broth. Cook over low heat until the meatballs float.
6. Add spinach, cook for another seven minutes.
7. The dish is ready, served hot, sprinkled with grated Parmesan.
Recipes
Vegetable soup with turkey meatballs
- water - 500 ml;
- broccoli or cauliflower - 100 g;
- potatoes - 1 small;
- onions - 1 pc. (half for meatballs);
- carrots - 0.5 pcs.;
- turkey - 100 g;
- quail egg - 1 pc.;
- salt - at mother's discretion;
- dill - 10 g.
- Wash thoroughly and cut the turkey meat into pieces.
- We pass through a meat grinder several times.
- Mix the resulting minced meat with an egg and half a finely chopped onion. Mix the minced meat and form small meatballs.
- Potatoes, carrots, broccoli or cauliflower, peel half the onion, wash and cut into cubes. We separate the cabbage into small inflorescences.
- Place in boiling water and cook for about 15 minutes.
- Place the meatballs, pre-boiled until half cooked, into the vegetable broth. Cook for another 10 minutes.
- Wash the dill, chop finely and add to the soup a minute before the end of cooking.
Children's soup with noodles and beef meatballs
- water - 500 ml;
- potatoes - 1 medium piece;
- carrots – 0.5 pcs.;
- lean beef or veal – 200 g;
- onion - 1 (half for minced meat);
- quail egg - 1 pc.;
- pasta or homemade noodles - 80 g;
- salt - depending on age;
- dill.
- Soak the beef, rinse thoroughly, remove tendons, and cut across the grain into small pieces. Grind several times in a meat grinder or food processor.
- Add half a finely chopped onion and an egg.
- Mix the minced meat thoroughly and form small meatballs no larger than a walnut.
- Place the semi-finished product in boiling water, cook for 5 minutes, remove the meat products.
- Pour in a new portion of water, bring to a boil, and add the beef meatballs again. Cook for 5 minutes.
- Wash and chop the potatoes, carrots, and onions thoroughly. Put it in the soup. Cook for another 10 minutes.
- Add pasta and cook until done. You can see the recipe for homemade noodles and cooking time.
- Add some salt to the soup depending on the baby’s age, add dill, cook for another 1 minute.
Light soup with rabbit meatballs and semolina
- rabbit meat – 100 g;
- quail egg yolk - 2 pcs.;
- onion - 0.5 small heads;
- semolina – 3 tsp;
- salt;
- dill.
- Wash the rabbit meat thoroughly, cut into cubes and chop. Add chopped onion and yolks. Mix and form small meatballs.
- Boil in water for about 5 minutes, remove and place in a new portion of boiling water, in which the soup will be cooked. Cook for another 15 minutes.
- Add semolina in a thin stream, stirring so that no lumps form.
- A minute before the end of cooking, add finely chopped dill.
- Cool and serve to the child for testing.
Colorful soup with chicken meatballs and rice for children
- chicken pulp - 200 g;
- quail egg – 1;
- rice (thoroughly washed, also subjected to a soaking procedure) - 100 g;
- small onion – 2 pcs.;
- small carrots - 0.5 pcs.;
- broccoli - 100 g;
- dill - 10 g;
- salt.
- We thoroughly wash the chicken meat, cut it into cubes, and grind it in a meat grinder or food processor.
- Add an egg (or yolk if you have allergies) and finely diced onion (you can grate it or chop it in a blender). Mix everything.
- Make meatballs and place on a cutting board.
- Wash the vegetables, peel them, cut them into cubes or grate them.
- Divide the broccoli into florets, remove coarse fibers, and cut into small pieces.
- Place potatoes, onions and carrots in boiling water in one saucepan. In another, boil the meatballs for about 5 minutes, remove from the water.
- Add rice, broccoli and meatballs to the vegetable broth and cook for another 15 minutes.
- Add finely chopped dill and cool.
Meatballs with gravy and mashed potatoes just like in kindergarten
- pork and beef 50/50–300 g;
- onion – 0.5 pcs.;
- sour cream – 20 ml;
- flour – 1 tbsp. l.;
- water – 100 ml;
- salt.
- We wash the meat, remove the tendons and films, and grind it in a meat grinder several times along with the onion.
- Form small meatballs the size of a walnut.
- Simmer in water or vegetable broth in a frying pan with a lid for about 20 minutes or cook in a slow cooker.
- Mix flour with sour cream, paying attention to any lumps that form. Pour into the frying pan with meatballs, continue simmering for about 10 minutes under a tightly closed lid over low heat.
- As a side dish, prepare mashed potatoes or steamed vegetables.
Meatballs and steamed cutlets are considered a kind of transitional food for children between pureed complementary foods and adult food. On the one hand, gentle cooking does not subject the baby’s stomach to excessive stress. On the other hand, the consistency of the product allows the baby to quickly master the skill of chewing. Moreover, such a meat product attracts the child’s attention and arouses interest. And the taste of the dish leaves few kids indifferent.
Soup with chicken meatballs is a win-win option for everyday, dietary and children's menus. It doesn’t matter at all whether the meatballs are large or small, the size of a cherry or the size of a walnut. The main thing is the taste and the ability to retain its shape when cooked in broth!
Meat balls are prepared from chicken fillet, which contains as much protein as possible and virtually no fat. The minced meat does not contain any fillers except an egg, a couple of pinches of salt and pepper. Moreover, you don’t even have to add an egg to it if you suddenly don’t have one on hand or you are allergic to it. The protein present in the chicken fillet instantly coagulates in boiling water, due to which the meat balls keep their shape perfectly (this is clearly visible in the recipe photo).
No rice! It is not added to classic chicken meatballs. And although this practice sometimes occurs - these will already be meatballs, and besides, the soup will not be as transparent as we would like.
Many housewives add raw or sauteed onions to the minced meat. This additive is especially relevant for pork and beef meatballs, which go well with onions in all its forms. But it’s not necessary to add onions to chicken ones – it’s a matter of taste.
Mushroom soup with chicken meatballs
If you have some mushrooms and half a chicken carcass, try making a hearty mushroom soup. A small portion is the perfect start to a big meal, and entrée lovers can enjoy it without worrying too much about the excess calories.
• 250–300 grams of any fresh mushrooms or two handfuls of dried ones;
• Carrots, onions for frying;
• A third of a glass of rice;
• Hand-ground black pepper;
• Allspice peas.
1. Pre-soak dried mushrooms for about an hour in cold water. Rinse and boil for twenty minutes. Drain the water, cut into strips.
2. Cut raw mushrooms into pieces without boiling.
3. Place the rice in a saucepan with boiling chicken broth.
4. After boiling, cook the rice for 4–5 minutes. Place chicken meat balls.
5. Periodically removing the foam, boil the meatballs for about half an hour.
6. Finely grate the carrots and chop the onion. Sauté over low heat until the onion is transparent.
7. Add chopped dry or raw mushrooms. Simmer until excess moisture evaporates.
8. Add the roast and pepper to the soup, simmer for another 10 minutes on low heat.
Delicious recipe for fish balls in tomato sauce
Fish balls recipe for all seafood lovers. Tender fish fillet is mixed with spices, vegetables and tomato sauce to make you fall in love with it from the very first bite.
How long is it - 1 hour and 15 minutes.
What is the calorie content - 82 calories.
How to cook:
- Rinse the fish fillet and check for bones. If there are bones, remove them with special tweezers.
- Cut clean meat into pieces.
- Finely chop the bread or break it with your hands, pour milk over it for fifteen minutes.
- Peel one onion and rinse the cut side to remove any juice.
- Cut into slices and mix with bread and fish pieces.
- Pass everything together through a meat grinder, mix and grind again.
- Add egg and salt to the resulting mixture.
- Pour in the milk that is left over from the bread and mix everything thoroughly by hand.
- Beat the minced meat and with wet hands form small balls from the mixture.
- Pour oil into a saucepan and heat it over low heat.
- Peel the second onion, wash and finely chop with a sharp knife.
- Pour into hot oil and simmer, stirring, until soft.
- During this time, peel, wash and grate the carrots.
- Add to the onion and simmer together for about five minutes.
- When time has passed, add tomatoes and stir.
- Peel the garlic and press it directly into the pan.
- Add salt to taste, black and red pepper, oregano and basil there.
- Stir, close the lid and simmer until smooth.
- After this, remove from heat and grind the entire mass with a submersible blender.
- Add to sauce and cook for about twenty minutes.
- Then toss the meatballs with the sauce and serve.
Tip: instead of tomatoes from a can, you can use tomato juice or paste, which needs to be diluted with water.
Soup with chicken meatballs “Children’s”
Soup with meatballs floating in it is, of course, delicious, and if you can slowly fish out a pasta elephant or star from your mother, then the bottom of the plate shows up too quickly. So you can ask for more and start all over again.
• One small carrot;
• Pasta “Alphabet” or children’s curly;
• Three potato tubers.
1. Add broccoli chopped in a blender to the minced chicken while preparing the meatballs.
2. Place meatballs on the bottom of the pan and fill with chicken broth. Let the soup boil.
3. Reduce heat and simmer on low heat for a quarter of an hour.
4. Cut the potatoes into small cubes, the carrots can be coarsely grated or chopped into strips.
5. Add vegetables to a saucepan and bring to a boil. Add pasta. In fifteen minutes the soup is ready.
Recipe for the most tender chicken breast meatballs
1. To prepare meatballs for two servings, it will be enough to take two large chicken breasts. Trim the skin from the breasts as desired. Without the skin, the meatballs will be closer to dietary in composition, since the breast itself is lean meat. But you can take meat from chicken thighs, this will make the meatballs more juicy.
2. Cut the breasts into arbitrary pieces to make it easier to chop.
3. Peel potatoes and shallots. And also cut into pieces.
4. Grind the chicken with vegetables in a meat grinder. But if you don’t have one, you can also use a blender.
5. Beat one chicken egg into the minced meat, add dry semolina or replace it with flour.
6. Now add salt and spices to the minced meat to your taste. Use garlic as desired for this recipe.
7. For piquancy, chop the raisins and add to the minced meat.
8. Mix the minced meat thoroughly with your hands so that all ingredients are well mixed. You can also beat him off.
9. Using hands soaked in water, form small meatballs. This way the minced meat will not stick to your hands and the balls will turn out neat.
10. In a preheated non-stick frying pan over medium heat, fry the meatballs until golden brown.
11. Prepare soy and Worcestershire sauce and thick tomato juice for the sauce. Or you can use blanched crushed tomatoes without skins. If you like it spicier, then chop a pod of hot chili pepper.
12. Pour the ingredients for the sauce over all the fried meatballs in the frying pan. Instead of tomato juice, you can use cream or sour cream.
13. Simmer the meatballs in the sauce over medium heat for 10 minutes. You can add tomato juice as needed. To give the sauce a glossy tint, add a pinch of diluted starch in water a few minutes before it is ready. To balance the taste of the sauce, add a spoonful of honey or a pinch of sugar.
14. A delicious dinner is ready. Chicken breast meatballs with spaghetti is a classic combination, but you can serve the dish with another side dish in the form of rice, potatoes or buckwheat, or simply in a sauce with pickled or fresh vegetables. Call everyone to the table. Bon appetit!
Minced meatballs, the recipe for which you can choose from the selection below, will transform the taste characteristics of the first course or become one of the best additions to a potato side dish, porridge, pasta, if served with gravy.
Soup with chicken meatballs, melted cheese and champignons
A simple and quick economy class soup. One of the most satisfying recipes.
• 250 gr. fresh champignons, or frozen;
• Medium sized carrot;
• Chopped herbs for decoration.
1. Cut fresh champignons into slices; if using frozen ones, defrost them in advance.
2. Grate 1/2 of the carrots, chop the other half into strips.
3. Chop the onion into small pieces.
4. Cut the potatoes into cubes.
5. Place the vegetables in a saucepan with boiling broth. Cook until the potatoes are half cooked.
6. Fry the mushrooms in a frying pan with the addition of sunflower oil. When the water from the mushrooms has evaporated, add processed cheese grated on a large-mesh grater. The cheese can be cut into slices.
7. Place the cheese and mushroom mixture into the soup. Cook until tender for about twenty minutes on the lowest heat.
Recipe for ground beef meatballs with rice
Components you will need:
- Minced beef – 500 grams;
- Rice – 300 grams;
- One onion;
- A clove of garlic;
- Raw chicken egg – 1 piece;
- 200 grams of sweet pepper;
- Tomato paste – 400 grams;
- Vegetable oil;
- Salt and spices.
Recipe:
- It is best to use white grain rice. It should be washed well in several waters. Rinse until the liquid is clear;
- Then transfer the rice to a sieve to drain all excess water;
- After that, pour it into a container, pour water and add some salt. Place on the fire and cook until half cooked;
- Prepare the minced meat for the meatballs. Pieces of meat should be washed, cleaned of veins and films;
- Cut into medium pieces and grind through a meat grinder or grind in a food processor;
- We peel the peel from the onion and also run it through a meat grinder or food processor. You can finely chop it or rub it with a grater;
- Remove the peel from the garlic clove and pass it through a press or chop it with a knife;
- Sweet pepper is cut in half. We take out the seeds from it, cut off the stalk and cut the pepper into strips;
- Then mix the minced meat with boiled rice. Add salt, raw egg, garlic, spices and stir;
- Make small balls the size of a walnut from the mixture;
- Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan and heat it up. Place the meatballs on the heated oil and fry on all sides. You need to fry them for about 15-20 minutes over low heat;
- Then add sweet pepper strips, close the lid and cook for 5-7 minutes;
- Place tomato paste in a frying pan, add a little water and bring to a boil. Boil for about 5 minutes;
- The finished dish can be eaten with boiled rice or baked vegetables.
Chicken meatball soup (vegetable cream soup)
The vegetable components of the recipe fit perfectly into the diet.
• Prepared broth and meatballs;
• One zucchini;
• 100 ml of milk, optional low-fat cream;
• Half a glass of canned sweet corn;
• 2.5 tbsp. l. olive oil;
• A couple of sprigs of dill.
1. Place the chicken meatballs into a saucepan with boiling broth.
2. After fifteen minutes, remove the meatballs into a separate bowl with a slotted spoon.
3. Remove all hard parts from broccoli florets.
4. Cut the zucchini into two-centimeter cubes.
5. Add chopped vegetables to the broth. After boiling, boil for a quarter of an hour.
6. Pour in cream or milk. Add salt if necessary and let it boil.
7. Remove from heat and strain vegetables and liquid through a fine sieve.
8. Pour the puree soup into bowls. In each serving, add a few mini meatballs, corn, a little olive oil, and sprinkle with chopped dill.
Soup with chicken meatballs “Bogatyr”
Another simple recipe from children's kitchen. If your baby does not eat soups with pieces of boiled meat, try offering him soup with meatballs and be sure to promise that a good appetite will make him a hero.
• Chicken balls (meatballs);
• Half an onion;
• Half a medium-sized carrot;
• Sunflower oil for frying.
1. Peel the potatoes and cut them into pieces.
2. Finely chop the carrots and chop the onion.
3. Fry carrots and onions in boiling vegetable oil until they have a beautiful amber color.
4. Place the potatoes in chicken broth boiling on the stove and cook until half cooked.
5. Pour in the roast and place the meatballs in the pan with the soup. Bring with the lid closed until done.
6. If desired, you can pepper and sprinkle with chopped herbs.
Cooking Instructions
I would like to offer you just soup with chicken meatballs and pasta. The pasta for this soup should be small, like spider webs. For me these are letters. Try it, the soup is easy to prepare but very tasty. Serve sprinkled with herbs, sour cream and yogurt.
To prepare soup with chicken meatballs we will need: potatoes, carrots, onions, garlic, sweet peppers (I used chopped, frozen), minced chicken, salt, pepper, bay leaf, sunflower oil.
We peel the potatoes and cut them as convenient: for me – into cubes. Fill it with water and turn it on gas. And immediately we begin to form meatballs, placing them in water. While the meatballs and potatoes are cooking, prepare the dressing.
Chop the onion, garlic, carrots and peppers as convenient. I have cubes. Fry in sunflower oil. I fry over high heat, stirring constantly.
Potatoes and meatballs are almost ready. We spread the dressing. Boil for a couple of minutes until the potatoes and meatballs are ready.
Add pasta and cook until pasta is done. Salt, pepper, add bay leaf.
Soup with minced chicken meatballs is ready. Serve hot.
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Chicken meatball soup - tricks and useful tips
• The meatballs will turn out softer and juicier if you add a little stale white bread soaked in milk to the minced meat and then squeeze it well. Instead of bread, boiled rice is sometimes used for this purpose.
• If you add a whole white onion to the boiling broth, it will turn out more transparent and acquire a rich onion flavor.
• It is not recommended to dilute salted meat broth with water. Dip a gauze bag with any washed cereal into the pan for 7-10 minutes, it will absorb excess salt.
• A small amount of onion peel decoction added while hot will give the broth a pleasant golden color.
• If you did not manage to remove the scale that had formed from the surface before boiling and it managed to settle to the bottom, quickly pour in a glass of boiled cold water. The var will rise to the top and you can easily remove it. You can also correct the situation by straining the broth through a sieve.
How to make minced meatballs for soup?
To make the meat balls tender but juicy, you need to know some culinary secrets. To prepare them, you can use different types of meat and fish. To diversify and improve the taste, fresh herbs, spices, onions and even vegetables can be used.
The meatballs are made more satisfying and fluffy thanks to the crumb of white bread.
Tips on how to prepare minced meatballs for soup:
- An important rule is that the meat must be ground through a fine grid and it is best to do this 2 times;
- If onions are used, they should also be chopped very finely. To do this, you can chop it with a knife, grate it or grind it using a meat grinder or blender;
- To make the meat balls tender, you can add breadcrumbs to the mass in an amount of up to a third of the total volume. You can also add semolina, observing the proportion: 1 tbsp per 0.5 kg of meat. spoon of semolina. After adding the cereal, leave the minced meat for 15 minutes. in the cold, which will allow the cereal to swell;
- To prevent the meatballs from falling apart during cooking, it is recommended to beat the minced meat. To do this, the prepared mass should be thrown forcefully into a bowl or simply on the table. The procedure must be repeated until uniformity is achieved;
- It is not recommended to use eggs, since the finished meat balls will have a rougher taste and the broth will be cloudy;
- You should not form large balls and it is best if they are no larger than a walnut. To prevent the mixture from sticking, you need to constantly wet your hands in water.