Every person should eat the first course to keep his stomach healthy. This is how our parents taught us from childhood. Therefore, they taught us to have first courses for lunch: borscht, soup, solyanka or other liquid dish.
Therefore, I decided to tell all my readers how to prepare a hearty and tasty soup with meatballs. This dish has a huge number of cooking options. I have chosen for you 12 of the most interesting recipes that every first course lover can prepare. Let's start cooking.
Cheese soup with meatballs and melted cheese
Products for cooking:
- Minced meat - 300 grams;
- Melted cheese - 1 piece;
- Potatoes - 400 grams;
- Onion - 50 grams;
- Carrots - 50 grams;
- Sunflower oil - 4 tablespoons;
- Oil drain. - a piece of 25-35 grams;
- Water - 1.4-1.6 liters;
- Turmeric - a quarter teaspoon;
- Lavrushka - 3 pieces;
- Pepper, salt, green stuff - to your taste.
Cooking process:
Cheese soup with meatballs is best made from minced chicken or turkey. This is my personal advice, but it all depends on your preferences.
- Place the pan on the stove and bring water to a boil.
- When the water boils, add the peeled diced potatoes and three bay leaves. Turn the heat to medium and cook.
- While the potatoes are cooking, you need to make the meatballs.
- Add a couple of pinches of salt, pepper and finely chopped onions to the minced meat. Mix everything well and form meat balls. The balls should be the size of a walnut ball.
- To enhance the taste, it is best to fry them in sunflower oil.
- After frying, throw the meat balls into the pan with undercooked potatoes.
- We make a frying of finely chopped onions and finely grated carrots. Fry these two ingredients thoroughly in butter.
- Grate the cheese on a fine grater and add it to the soup along with the finished frying. Boil for 12-13 minutes over low heat until the cheese is completely melted.
- Sprinkle with herbs, turmeric and let simmer for another 2-3 minutes.
Our aromatic, hearty soup is ready to eat. It is best to let the dish sit for 15-20 minutes after it is ready.
The simplest option
It is not necessary to add any grains to the chicken meatball soup. For such a dish, meat and vegetables will be enough. There is one interesting option where the main ingredients are: 250 grams of fillet or prepared minced chicken, 1 carrot, 2 onions, 2 eggs, 10 grams of black pepper, 3 heads of garlic, 100 grams of fresh tomatoes, 3 bay leaves, salt and 25 gram of parsley.
Preparing the soup is very simple:
- First you need to prepare the minced meat. To do this, it should be passed through the meat grinder again, this time together with the garlic. After this, add salt to the mixture, add the egg and knead thoroughly.
- Saute onion cut into rings in a frying pan.
- Form meatballs from the minced meat.
- Boil water in a saucepan and put bay leaves in it.
- Drop the meat balls into the boiling liquid and cook them over medium heat.
- After 20 minutes, add the onion, carrots and black pepper.
- After this, add chopped parsley and tomatoes to the soup.
- After a quarter of an hour, the fire can be turned off.
In order for the soup to be ready, it needs to stand under the lid for 5-8 minutes.
Light and satisfying soup with meatballs in a slow cooker
Products for cooking:
- Minced meat - 250 grams;
- Potatoes - 3 pieces;
- Carrot - 1 piece (medium size);
- Breadcrumbs - 3 teaspoons;
- Salt, pepper and herbs - to your taste.
Cooking process:
- Mix breadcrumbs with the minced meat, add salt and pepper and stir well.
- Start making ball-shaped meatballs from the minced meat.
- Peel the potatoes, wash under running water and cut into cubes.
- Cut the onions into small pieces, and grate the carrots on a fine grater.
- Add purified water to a multicooker cup and put chopped potatoes, carrots and onions into it.
- You need to select the “Stew” mode and the cooking time is 60 minutes.
- After half an hour, you need to open the multicooker and carefully put the prepared meatballs in there and sprinkle with pepper and salt.
- We continue cooking for another half hour, and then season with herbs.
Chicken meatball soup
Products for cooking:
- Minced chicken - 350 grams;
- Potatoes - 3 pieces;
- Onion - 1 piece;
- Carrot - 1 piece;
- Oil drain. - 30 grams;
- Greens - 20 grams;
- Spices - to taste;
- Purified water - 2 liters.
Cooking process:
- Melt the butter and pour into the minced meat. Mix well.
- Salt and pepper the minced meat, sprinkle with spices at your discretion, and add half of the finely chopped onion.
- Mix all the ingredients well and start forming balls. The format is somewhere like a walnut.
- Place a pan of water on the stove. When the water boils, add the meat molds you have made. You need to cook for about ten minutes.
- While the meatballs are cooking, you need to cut the potatoes into cubes. Fry in vegetable oil. To fry, finely chop the onion and grate the carrots.
- Add the prepared roast and chopped potatoes to the boiling meatballs. All these ingredients need to be cooked for 12-15 minutes over low heat.
- After the specified time has passed, taste the potatoes for readiness, sprinkle with herbs and boil for another 2-3 minutes. Remove from heat. Let it brew for 15-20 minutes.
That's all! Enjoy a hearty and delicious lunch.
Quick soup with meatballs and rice
The ingredients for this dish are found in almost every kitchen. In terms of time, cooking will take about 35-45 minutes. Let's start looking at them.
Products for cooking:
- Minced pork - 350 g;
- Potatoes - 4 pcs;
- Carrot - 1 piece;
- Onion - 1 piece;
- Rice - 100 g;
- Bay leaf - 2-3 pcs;
- Salt, pepper, herbs - to your taste.
Cooking process:
- Prepare minced meatballs. You can buy twisted minced pork or pork and beef in the store. If you wish, you can buy a piece of meat and grind the minced meat yourself through a meat grinder. If there is little fat in the minced meat, the meatballs will turn out dry and may fall apart. But the situation can be corrected with one raw chicken egg, which must be added to the minced meat and mixed. This will add stickiness to the molded balls.
- Peel the potatoes and cut into cubes.
- The carrots need to be put through a fine grater, and the onion should be cut into small pieces.
- Place water in a saucepan on the stove and add rice and potatoes washed under running water.
- While the potatoes and rice are cooking, you need to fry them. To do this, take a frying pan and fry the onions and carrots in vegetable oil over low heat. As soon as the onion turns golden brown and the carrots become soft, remove from heat.
- Roll into meat balls from the prepared minced meat. To get the stuffing into your hands, you need to soak them in water.
- Try the potatoes with rice; if they are almost ready, you can add the balls you made to them and cook for 12-15 minutes over medium heat. If the meatballs are small in size (smaller than a walnut), then you need to cook them for about 6-7 minutes.
- As soon as the meatballs are ready, add frying to the soup, salt and pepper (if anyone wants), throw in a couple of bay leaves and sprinkle with herbs. And let it simmer for another 2-3 minutes. Afterwards, remove the pan from the heat and let it brew for 12-15 minutes.
The dish is ready to eat. Add sour cream or mayonnaise and start tasting.
Rich mushroom soup with chicken meatballs
Mushroom soup is a real delight. You can use fresh, frozen, or dried mushrooms for it. All of them will make the first dish unusually tasty and aromatic. Wild mushrooms do not require the addition of a large amount of spices or rich broth, because they themselves give the soup richness and bright taste.
Ingredients:
- minced chicken – 200 gr.;
- a handful of dry porcini mushrooms;
- onions, carrots, celery - 1 pc.;
- potatoes – 2 pcs.;
- water – 2 l.;
- boiled egg;
- salt, pepper, bay leaf, parsley or celery.
Preparation:
- Soak the mushrooms for 2 hours. Drain the water and rinse well.
- Add salt, onion and finely chopped herbs to the minced meat. Form meatballs.
- Cut the onion into cubes, grate the carrots on a coarse grater. Fry in vegetable oil.
- Add mushrooms, pre-cut into small pieces, to the vegetables and fry for 15 minutes. over low heat.
- Boil water, put mushrooms and vegetables into a saucepan, add potatoes, cut into cubes. Salt and pepper the soup. Cook for 20 minutes.
- Add the meatballs, throw in 2 bay leaves. Cook the soup for another 10 minutes.
- Pour the soup into bowls, add sour cream, add half a boiled egg.
The fastest way to make mushroom soup is to use mushrooms. They don't require any preparation, have a pleasant smell and go well with chicken meatballs.
Tomato soup with meatballs
The soup prepared according to my recipe will be hearty, tasty and aromatic. This dish is well suited to feed all family members at the dinner table. Let's not waste a minute and start cooking.
Products for cooking:
- Minced meat - 450 grams;
- Potatoes - 6 pieces;
- Tomatoes - 5 pieces;
- Onions, carrots - 1 piece each;
- Red hot pepper - 2 grams;
- Bay leaf - 2 pieces;
- Greens, salt - to your taste;
- Purified water - 1.5 liters.
Cooking process:
- Place the minced meat in a bowl and add finely chopped onion, red pepper and salt. Mix all ingredients well.
- Put water on the fire and bring to a boil. During this time, form meatballs from the minced meat and carefully place them into boiling water. And cook for about 20-25 minutes.
- Cut the potatoes into medium slices, and the carrots into thin half rings. Add chopped vegetables to meatballs.
- Take the tomatoes and wash them under running water. Cut each in half and blend in a blender until smooth.
- Pour the resulting tomato mixture into the soup, mix well and throw in a couple of bay leaves. Leave to cook for another 4-6 minutes and remove from heat.
The dish is best cooked with the addition of fresh tomatoes if cooking takes place in the summer. In winter, you can use regular tomato paste from the store. Or you can use canned tomatoes for cooking.
The secret of delicious meatballs
The most important thing in such a dish is to correctly make the meatballs for the minced chicken soup. You can use a ready-made meat ball recipe or create one yourself. Usually the following products are taken to prepare them: 400 grams of minced meat, half an onion, an egg, salt, a clove of garlic, pepper and 2 green onions.
In this case, the following technique is used:
- First you need to chop the vegetables. The onion should be finely chopped, the green onions should be chopped randomly, and the garlic should be passed through a press with a knife.
- Pour the prepared products into the minced meat.
- Add egg, spices and mix everything well.
- Form meatballs from the resulting mass. To prevent the minced meat from sticking to your hands, you need to moisten them a little with water.
Now the finished balls can be added to the soup. These semi-finished products can be prepared in advance and stored in the refrigerator. Later, as needed, they can be obtained and used for their intended purpose. To prevent foods from sticking together when frozen, it is better to first roll them in flour.
Vegetable meatball soup
I want to dedicate this recipe to all those who have fresh vegetables lying around in the refrigerator and don’t know what can be made from them. I propose to make a dish that is simple at first glance, but very tasty, namely soup with meatballs and vegetables. I will describe the recipe for this yummy dish below. Sit down, read and memorize.
Products for cooking:
- Purified water - 1.7-2 liters;
- Minced pork - 450 grams;
- Raw chicken egg - 1 piece;
- Onion - 1 piece;
- Sunflower oil - for frying;
- Potatoes - 3 pieces;
- Fresh tomatoes - 1 piece;
- Zucchini - 1 piece. more authentic;
- Red onion - 1 piece;
- Sweet pepper - ½ piece;
- Carrots - 2 pieces. (medium size);
- Salt, black pepper ground, greens - to taste.
Cooking process:
- Grate the onion on a fine grater and add it to the minced meat along with the raw egg. Sprinkle with salt and black pepper and mix well.
- Cut the potatoes and carrots into small cubes, the zucchini into large cubes, and remove the skin from the tomato and cut into medium pieces. Cut the sweet pepper into medium pieces, like the tomato. Red onion - in the shape of half rings.
- Place a pan on the stove and pour sunflower oil into the bottom. Put the onion in it and simmer it a little, but do not fry it.
- After this, add carrots to the onion and cover the pan, simmer for 7 minutes.
- Add chopped zucchini and simmer again for 6 minutes.
- Next comes the pepper and potatoes, simmer for 9-11 minutes.
- Finally, add the tomatoes. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and simmer for 6 minutes.
- Add cool water to the vegetables, wait until it boils and cook for 11-12 minutes over low heat.
- After the specified time, pre-made meatballs are added. They cook for 6-8 minutes. After this, if desired, you can sprinkle with herbs and boil for another 2-3 minutes.
- Remove the soup from the stove and let it sit for 10-12 minutes.
To make the dish amazing, the main element will be the correct addition of chopped vegetables. Follow the order indicated in the recipe and you won’t regret it.
Rice soup
According to most housewives, soup with minced chicken meatballs is perhaps the most popular first course. Not only children, but also many adults love him. To prepare this soup you need the simplest and most affordable ingredients: 3 liters of water, 2 onions, 400 grams of minced chicken, ground black pepper, carrots, 100 grams of rice, 4 potatoes, salt, clove of garlic, egg, 2 bay leaves, a pinch of ground coriander and a couple of peas of allspice.
Cooking technology:
- Add chopped 1 onion with garlic, egg and spices (coriander, ground pepper and salt) to the minced chicken. All this must be mixed thoroughly, and then beaten properly.
- Using wet hands, form meatballs into balls from the prepared mixture.
- Cut the remaining vegetables into medium cubes, and the greens can simply be finely chopped.
- Place the washed rice into a saucepan. Fill it with water and put on fire.
- 6 minutes after boiling, add potatoes, onions, carrots and other spices.
- After 15 minutes, add salt to the soup and add meatballs to it. The fire can be made smaller.
- In just 10 minutes, the soup with minced chicken meatballs will be ready. At the very end you can add greens.
After this, the dish should sit a little. To do this, cover the pan with a lid and wait another 10 minutes.
Soup with meatballs and vermicelli
Products for cooking:
- Minced pork - 350 grams;
- Potatoes - 250 grams;
- Vermicelli - 80 grams;
- Carrot - 1 piece;
- Onion - 1 piece;
- Vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons;
- Ground black pepper, salt, bay leaf - to your taste.
Cooking process:
- Grate the carrots using a coarse grater, cut the onion into small cubes.
- Cut the potatoes into small pieces and cover with running water to let them sit for a while.
- Mix the minced meat with salt, black pepper and mix well by hand.
- Form into meatballs, 2.5 cm in diameter.
- Pour three liters of water into a saucepan, add chopped potatoes and leave to boil.
- In order not to waste time, you need to fry it from chopped onions and grated carrots.
- As soon as the water starts to boil, put the prepared roast into it, a couple of bay leaves, prepared meatballs and let the soup boil again. When this happens, you need to add salt and, cover with a lid, leave to simmer over low heat until the potatoes are ready.
- As soon as it becomes clear that the potatoes are ready, add vermicelli. Stir and cook for another 3-4 minutes. You can leave the pan off the stove and let it sit for a while.
Pasta soup
What else can you do with ground chicken and meatball soup? Recipes, photos and useful tips from experienced chefs will help you find the right solution to this problem. Very often this dish is prepared with pasta. This makes it more filling and nutritious. To work, you will need the following essential products: 3 potatoes, carrots, a clove of garlic, 200 grams of minced chicken, salt, onion, half a sweet pepper, bay leaf, 2 tablespoons of small pasta, ground pepper and 35 grams of sunflower oil.
The process usually begins with the processing of basic products:
- Potatoes need to be peeled, washed and carefully cut into cubes.
- Pour water into a saucepan and put it on fire.
- During this time, form the minced meat into balls.
- As soon as the water boils, place the potatoes and meatballs in it.
- While the food is cooking, you can do the rest of the vegetables. First you need to randomly chop the carrots, onions, bell peppers and garlic.
- Fry the prepared products in a frying pan, adding a couple of tablespoons of vegetable oil.
- Add the juicy dressing to the soup as soon as the meatballs and potatoes are almost ready.
- After 3 minutes, add salt to the dish, add pasta and a little pepper. It is better to add greens at the very end.
Now all you have to do is wait for the pasta to cook.
Amazing meatball and bean soup
Products for cooking:
- Minced chicken - 450 grams;
- Potatoes - 8 pieces;
- Carrot - 1 piece;
- Onions - 2 heads;
- Sweet pepper in a pod - 1 piece;
- Sunflower oil - 2 table. spoons;
- Fresh beans - 200 grams;
- Greens, salt - to your taste;
- Purified water - 3 liters.
Products for cooking:
- Wash the beans, add water and put on the fire to cook. Once it becomes soft, set aside to drain the water.
- Pour 3 liters into another pan. Water, put boiled beans and cut potatoes into cubes. Bring to a boil and simmer over low heat for 15 minutes.
- Take the minced meat, add pepper, salt and mix well with your hands. Make meatballs and carefully add them to the potatoes and beans. As soon as they rise to the top, add salt and pepper to the broth.
- Fry in sunflower oil from finely chopped onions, sweet peppers and grated carrots.
- Add the finished sauté to the broth, sprinkle with fresh finely chopped herbs (you can use dry ones). Wait until it boils and cook for 2-3 minutes. Set aside from the stove.
For greater sophistication and extravagance, bean soup can be served with garlic croutons or croutons.
Diet cabbage soup with chicken meatballs
Chicken soups themselves are a dietary product, but certain ingredients make this dish as healthy and safe as possible from a health point of view. Dietary soup with chicken meatballs is recommended by doctors for various pathologies, as well as as part of a set of measures to combat excess weight.
Ingredients:
- chicken fillet – 2 pcs.;
- egg, salt, onion (for minced meat);
- water – 2 l.;
- carrots, onions, celery - half each;
- white cabbage – 200 gr.
- potatoes – 2 pcs.;
- salt, peppercorns, cloves, bay leaf.
Preparation:
- Grind the chicken fillet into minced meat, adding an egg, half a small onion and salt. Roll into balls with a diameter of 2 cm.
- Boil water in a saucepan, put in it sliced potatoes, celery and onion - cubes, shredded cabbage, grated carrots. Cook the vegetables for 10 minutes, then add salt to the soup, add 3-4 black peppercorns, 2 cloves and a bay leaf.
- Add the meatballs and simmer the soup over low heat for another 10 minutes. The cooking time can be increased by 5-10 minutes if you want the cabbage to be even softer.
- Pour the soup into bowls and sprinkle with herbs.
Classic meatball soup
Products for cooking:
- Minced meat - 450 grams;
- Potatoes - 5 pieces (medium);
- Carrots with onions - 1 piece each;
- Oil drain. - 30 grams;
- Greens - 1 bunch;
- Salt, pepper and all kinds of spices - to your taste;
- Purified water - 2 liters.
Cooking process:
- To prepare the soup according to the classic recipe, first you need to add salt and spices to your purchased or prepared minced meat according to your preferences, pour melted butter. Mix well with your hands.
- Make meatballs with a diameter equal to a quail egg. For good sculpting, first wet your hands with water.
- Bring two liters of water to boil. Pour the minced meat balls one by one into boiling water. Cook for 9-12 minutes.
- Afterwards, add the diced potatoes and also boil for 9-11 minutes.
- While the potatoes are cooking, prepare a sauté of finely chopped onions and grated carrots.
- Taste, if the potatoes are ready, add the sauteed sauce, stir and boil for 4-6 minutes. Turn off the heat, sprinkle with chopped herbs and cover the pan with a lid and let the soup brew a little.
Cheese soup with chicken meatballs
Cheese makes the taste of first courses soft, creamy and pleasant to look at. For cheese soup, both cheese curds are used, which are pre-frozen for ease of preparation, and cheeses of different varieties, depending on the taste of the soup you want to get. This recipe calls for cream cheese in the soup.
Ingredients:
- minced chicken – 300 gr.;
- water – 1.5 l.;
- carrots, onions, celery root - 100 g each;
- tomato – 1 pc.;
- cream cheese – 100 gr.;
- couscous – 1 tbsp. l.;
- salt, spices, herbs.
Preparation:
- Prepare minced chicken. To do this, mince chicken fillet and 50 grams. onions, salt and pepper.
- Roll into balls no larger than a walnut.
- Fry finely chopped onion and grated carrots and celery in a frying pan with vegetable oil.
- Place the vegetables in boiling water and add the diced tomato.
- In the pan where the vegetables were cooked, fry the meatballs, adding a little butter. The whole process will take about 5 minutes.
- Place the meatballs in a saucepan, add salt and spices and cook the soup for 10 minutes.
- Rub cheese into the prepared soup, throw in couscous and finely chopped parsley. Let sit covered for 15 minutes.
Buckwheat soup with meatballs
Products for cooking:
- Minced meat - 200 grams;
- Buckwheat - 120 grams;
- Potatoes - 2 pieces;
- Carrots - 1 piece;
- Water - 1.5 liters;
- Herbs, salt, spices - to your taste.
Cooking process:
- Bring water to boil. Wash the buckwheat and cut the potatoes into small pieces.
- At the same time, add buckwheat and potatoes to boiling water and add salt. Leave to cook for 7-8 minutes.
- During this time, you need to mix the minced meat thoroughly and form medium-sized meatballs. The volume is like a teaspoon.
- Grate the carrots on a fine grater and finely chop the green stuff.
- As soon as the potatoes are ready, add the stuck minced meat balls, grated carrots and sprinkle with herbs. Stir and cook for 6-7 minutes. When the meatballs start to float, turn off the heat and let sit for 2-3 minutes.
It is best to serve the soup in bowls with the addition of sour cream. You can also cut some garlic bread for each family member. This will give the dish a delicious taste.
Pea soup with meatballs
To prepare this dish, it is best to soak the peas in warm water for 8-12 hours. Otherwise, the cooking time may be significantly longer.
Products for cooking:
- Minced beef - 350 grams;
- Potatoes - 2 pieces;
- Carrot - 1 piece;
- Onion - 1 piece;
- Fresh peas - 170 grams;
- Vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons;
- Seasonings, green stuff, bay leaves - to your taste;
- Water - 1.5 liters.
Cooking process:
- Pour one and a half liters of water into a saucepan and add the peas prepared in advance. Place on fire and bring to a boil. As soon as the water boils, turn the heat to low and cook the peas until they are soft.
- When the peas are cooked, add the potatoes cut into cubes and sprinkle with salt to taste.
- Cut the onion into small pieces and add half the head to the boiled potatoes, and the other half to the minced meat.
- Grate the carrots on a fine grater and divide the onions according to the above example.
- Minced meat with onions and carrots should be salted, peppered and mixed thoroughly. Make balls about 2 cm in size.
- Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan and fry the meatballs on both sides until golden brown.
- When the potatoes are almost ready, add the fried meatballs to the soup, stir and simmer with the lid closed for 12-17 minutes over low heat.
- If necessary, add salt, pepper, bay leaf and sprinkle with herbs. After this, you will need to boil for another 2-3 minutes and turn off the heat.
Children's soup with chicken meatballs “Summer”
What could be more wonderful for children than summer? The recipe for children's soup with chicken meatballs captures all the colors of this wonderful time of year, and the delicate texture of the meat balls will please even the most notorious picky eaters.
Ingredients:
- red chicken meat – 200 gr.;
- salt, egg, semolina (for minced meat);
- water – 1.5 l.;
- celery stalk, carrots - ½ pcs.;
- red sweet pepper – ½ pcs.;
- potatoes – 1 pc.;
- canned corn – 2 tbsp. l.;
- salt, peppercorns, bay leaf, dill.
Preparation:
- Twist the meat, add the egg, 1 tsp. semolina and salt. Knead the minced meat well and form into meatballs. Sprinkle with flour and place in the freezer.
- Prepare vegetables: finely chop celery, carrots and peppers.
- Boil water, add chopped potatoes and prepared vegetables. Add salt, 3 peppercorns and the lower part of a bunch of dill, tied with a thread (stems and part of the greens). Cook the soup for 10 minutes.
- Place meatballs, corn and bay leaf into soup. Cook for another 10 minutes. Once the soup is ready, discard the bay leaf and bunch of herbs.
- Pour into plates, sprinkle with dill.
Minced chicken is quite viscous, so meatballs made from it do not fall apart in the soup, even if no egg is added to them. If there is not enough minced meat, then the egg can make the texture too liquid.