There are many interesting recipes for first courses. But sometimes I don’t want to cook anything complicated. In this case, it is worth cooking soup with meatballs and noodles from childhood.

Classic Meatball and Vermicelli Soup

Ingredients: 320 g mixed minced meat (pork + chicken), 3 potatoes, onions, 80 g small vermicelli, a slice of butter, a table egg, medium carrot, a pinch of spice mix for soup, fine salt.

  1. To begin with, chopped vegetables are prepared from chopped vegetables (onions, carrots). It tastes best in melted butter or ghee. First, onion cubes are fried, and then grated carrots.
  2. The potato is peeled, washed, cut with bars.
  3. Stuffing is mixed with frying and salted. Small balls are molded from it.
  4. Water in the pan is salted, selected seasonings are added to it. Potatoes are cooked in this liquid until soft.
  5. Then frying is added. You can use bay leaves.
  6. Stuffed balls are sent to the soup. It is necessary to remove the foam that has appeared on the surface.
  7. Then vermicelli is poured into the pan.

About a couple of minutes before the dish is ready, a beaten egg is poured into it.

With minced chicken and broth

Ingredients: large carrots, 2 large spoons of cobweb noodles, 340 g of minced chicken, 2 l of chicken stock, small salt, 3 potatoes, spices, a large spoon of tomato paste, 180 g of raw mushrooms, 2 onions.

  1. In vegetable oil, frying is prepared from plates of mushrooms, chopped onions (1 pc.) And carrots. The mass is prepared before evaporating the excess liquid. Next, tomato paste is added to the ingredients. Together, the ingredients languish for a couple of minutes.
  2. The remaining onion is chopped finely and mixed with minced meat. Miniature balls are rolled from the salted mass.
  3. The broth is brought to a boil, potato bars are lowered into it and brought to half-cooked.
  4. Meat preparations are immersed in the future soup. When the meatballs pop up, you can salt the treats and add seasonings.
  5. Last of all, vermicelli and roast are sent to the pan.

It remains to boil the soup for another 3-4 minutes. After cooking, the dish should be infused.

Step-by-step recipe with tomato sauce

Ingredients: 360 grams of ground beef, 2 onions, carrots, a table egg, a bunch of fresh herbs, 2 tablespoons of tomato paste, a pinch of table salt and granulated sugar, a bay leaf, 1-3 garlic cloves.

  1. Chopped onion and crushed garlic to taste are added to ground beef.
  2. A slightly beaten egg, salt interferes in the meat mass. Finely chopped greens are added there. The ingredients mix well. Balls roll out of the mass.
  3. Meatballs are immersed in boiling salted water with a bay leaf and cooked for 6-7 minutes. You need to remove the foam.
  4. From the remaining onions and carrots, a toast is prepared. Then she languishes for a couple of minutes on a plate with tomato paste and sugar.
  5. The contents of the pan are transferred to the soup.

The treat languishes until cooked on low heat for about another 15 minutes.

How to cook in a slow cooker?

Ingredients: 270 g of minced pork, 3 medium potato tubers, large carrots, onions, a bunch of dill, 1.5 l of filtered water, table salt to taste, aromatic herbs. How to cook meatball soup in a “smart pot” is described in detail below.

  1. Minced pork salted, sprinkled with aromatic herbs. To make the taste of the mass more vivid and interesting, you need to pour finely chopped dill into it. The resulting mass is divided into miniature pieces that roll into balls.
  2. Carrots are cut in circles. If the vegetable is very sweet, then you can reduce its amount in the dish.
  3. Potatoes need to be washed well, peeled and cut into small longitudinal slices.
  4. The onion is peeled and finely chopped.
  5. All pre-prepared ingredients are placed in the bowl of the device. From above they are filled with water.
  6. A dish is being 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 more rich fat soup, then the first thing you can do is fry the onions and carrots in butter in baking mode.

Soup with turkey meatballs and egg noodles

Ingredients: 420 g of prepared minced meat from turkey, 120 g of egg noodles, onion, clove of garlic, carrot, 4 medium potato tubers, small sweet bell pepper, table egg, salt, Italian herbs.

  1. Crushed garlic, a little beaten egg, salt, Italian herbs are added to the minced meat. Miniature strong balls are molded from the resulting mass.
  2. Meatballs are immersed in boiling salted water along with potato wedges. They need to be cooked for 12-14 minutes over medium heat.
  3. Vegetables are chopped in any convenient way and passaged together in a pan drizzled 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.
  4. The contents of the pan are transferred to the pan. Egg noodles go there. Cook soup for another 5-6 minutes.

Serves hot to the table with lots of fresh or dried herbs.

Secrets and tricks of cooking

To make the soup being discussed very tasty, you need to pay special attention to the choice of minced meat. For an easier meal, take the chicken component or prepared from turkey. For the most rich - mixed from several types of minced meat. For example, pork + beef. If the meatballs fall apart during cooking, the mass of minced meat before they are sculpted should be well beaten off on a hard surface.

A thoroughly beaten mass does not even require the addition of eggs.

Do not add rice to meatballs for soup. Otherwise, you will already get a separate dish - meatballs.Instead of cereals, you can take chopped walnuts, soaked dried mushrooms, chopped herbs and others.

As soon as the meat balls are sent to boiling water, the first couple of minutes they need to be well mixed. Otherwise, the meatballs may stick together.

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