Soups for centuries are the traditional Russian dish. That soup in a variety of its variations can be varied people or culture. For example, at the mention of soup kharcho we immediately understand that we are talking about Georgian dishes. Despite the fact that the Russian soups are solely the first dish for breakfast meal in many other countries, there are quite comfortable and even cold fruit soups. Depending on what is the main ingredient in the dish several varieties soups.
Most often used a classification that distinguishes meat and vegetable soups. The consistency of the same species differ in some dishes - cream soup, soup and so on. Meat soups have always been and today are the most attractive for the residents of Russia. This is due, most likely, the variability of the climate. For most of the year, we have to be under the influence of winds, blizzards and rain. All this leads to cooling of the body. To prevent this from happening, you need a sufficient number of amino acids that are cleaved from the protein.
Species there are many meat soup: chicken soup, soup broth chops, lamb soup and many others. Meat can be an integral part of the soup and puree. Those who as a child spent a lot of time with my grandparents, certainly know that every day you need to eat right. And what could be more harmful than eating cold food? Just eating fast food. Another thing soup - rich broth, fresh vegetables and meat. However, children prefer it to harmful food. How can they make love soup? The surest option - to diversify this dish with some innovations. One of these innovations is the soup with meatballs. If you are tired of the usual bits of meat to your child or grandchild, then go to the soup with meatballs.
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Recipes soups with meatballs
The preparation of this dish does not require much time, and quite often it is possible to cook and as a first and a second dish. In other words, even if your child refuses to eat this soup, you have the possibility to persuade him to second. At the same time you poured the soup, just put in a dish more "dense" ingredients, add the broth is almost not needed. Soup with meatballs in different variations with additional ingredients are present in the kitchens of many different countries. How to remember the majority of adults who attended kindergarten, meatballs are small-diameter balls, which are twisted from meat, fish or chicken mince. You can cook yourself or buy at the store.
The first option is far preferable, since handwritten cooking you know exactly what is in a part of the future of food. Purchased on the market or butcher shop meat (no matter what), you miss it through a meat grinder, you can immediately together with the onions. After that there is only roll small balls, which later will become a great addition to vegetable soup.
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Soup with meatballs at home
Every housewife, despite the fact that in cookbooks, and so there is a considerable number of recipes soup with meatballs, sooner or later invent your own recipe. Differences from the original recipes can be only in small details relating to when it lowered the meatballs to the soup. But there are such options that they are fundamentally different from the recipe, which can be found in the cookbook. Each owner has exactly the recipe homemade soup with meatballs, and even though in most cases these recipes are different, the name remains the same.
For the preparation of homemade soup with meatballs, you will need:
3 liters of water,
300 gr. minced meat,
3 tbsp. l. vegetable oil
2-3 potatoes,
3 onions,
1 egg,
1-2 carrots,
1 tomato,
fourth of the cup rice
spices and herbs.
In the case of soup with meatballs at home, you will need to cook the stuffing in another technology that is different from the one that was proposed earlier. This recipe calls for cooking minced scrolled through a meat grinder meat, grated onion, carrots, eggs, herbs, spices and rice. Onions in meatballs send not all - just 1 large onion. Same with carrots. The remaining onion finely cut and fry until it becomes transparent. At this time, mix the minced meat with the other ingredients that make up meatballs, and molding the resulting mass of small balls. The transparent add the remaining onions carrots, tomatoes and fry on very low heat for 3-4 minutes. While vegetable stew we boil water, add salt to it and in turn throw meatballs - the meatballs. They should be cooked in boiling water for 10 min.
After the meat comes up, we will send to the boiling broth cubes sliced potatoes, roasted vegetables.
Once the soup boils again, diminish the fire to medium and cook for another 15 minutes until fully cooked meatballs under the lid closed.
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Recipe of tomato soup with meatballs
Ingredients:
0, 5 kg of canned tomatoes in own juice
4 tbsp. l. finely crumbled crackers,
0, 5 kg of minced meat,
a bag of almonds (50-70 Gy)
1 egg,
2-3 liters of water,
1-2 onions,
4-5 potatoes,
Garlic, spices (to taste).
To prepare tomato soup with meatballs, it is necessary, first of all, properly allocate all the stages of cooking. For this you need a few kinds of dishes. First, we need a deep skillet. It pour the vegetable oil and fry the onion there. The golden oil, canned tomatoes, onions send and spices. All mix well and add to the weight of the vegetable broth. Once all boils, diminish the heat to medium power and cook it for another 10 minutes. Do not forget from time to time to stir this blank for soup and take the resulting foam on the surface of the broth.
Next, we take the low pot in which to directly knead minced meatballs. Their recipe is included scrolled in a meat grinder meat, egg, half of biscuits, spices and salt. This mass divide into small pieces and twisting of these balls of average size. Next, we need clean dry frying pan. In it, we will send the chopped almonds, add the rest of crumbs and fry directly on a dry frying pan without oil for 1 minute.
After that, boiled vegetables in a skillet we shift into a saucepan with remaining broth, and add more to it, and potatoes, which is cut into large slices. Potatoes cooked with the rest (browned) vegetables for 7-8 minutes. Once that time passes, you move to send the soup of roasted nuts and meatballs. It remains to make soup in just 10 minutes. But in order to maximize the soup was tasty, it is still fresh herbs and season with crushed garlic, and in the end cover tightly with a lid and can even cover with a warm towel. Give the soup infuse for 20 minutes and after that you can lay the table and serve the finished dish.
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Recipe of Chinese shrimp soup with meatballs
This soup is radically different from all of the above. First of all, this concerns the composition of the meatballs. For their preparation you will need:
200 gr. shrimp
about 100 grams. cod fillets,
Starch - 4 teaspoons,
sauce - 3-5 drops,
egg white,
sake or wine - 1 teaspoon.
All these ingredients need to grind in a blender, and of everything that happens, molded 4 large meatballs. Boil them for a couple or, if possible, in a double boiler. This phase is completed. Next, go to cooking omelet. This is one more thing that makes see the uniqueness of this soup. For the omelet, the following products:
1 egg,
mirin,
salt.
Beat egg and add to it mirin and salt, fry in frying pan on both sides. Do not overdo it, but at the same time, it should boil it so that it is not broke and collapsed. Once the omelette is ready, you need to cut it into long strips (about 15-20 cm). Let cool for them for 5 minutes and the resulting strips tying knots. To prepare the soup you need a little less than 1 liter of water to be boiled. In boiling water, add sake (or wine), soy sauce and salt. All is ready. It remains only to collect all the ingredients in one dish. In a bowl add up boiled meatballs and tied knots in them, pour the broth. To decorate the dish at the table setting in a Chinese soup added feathers of green onions. To do this they need to be not less than 5 minutes soak in a separate dish with cold water.
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Recipes soups with meatballs in multivarka
Despite the fact that the soup with meatballs, and so is a kind of soup noodles, it is quite possible to cook and multivarka that will save you even more time than the traditional soup with meatballs.
Soup with meatballs ready to multivarka
In order to prepare a quick soup, you will need ready meatballs that can be purchased frozen or refrigerated in any supermarket. In addition to them we need the following ingredients that are part of the courses:
1 onion,
4-5 potatoes,
1 carrot,
2-3 tablespoons rice,
Water - 2 liters,
spices and salt to taste.
First of all, we take the onion and carrot. Clear the onion, wash and cut into very small cubes. Carrots also how to wash, clean and three on a coarse grater or grind using a slicer. Set multivarku mode "Baking" and passeruem carrots and onions in it for 7-10 minutes. This is enough to bow became transparent. Bring the vegetables to such a state that they crunched on the teeth, it is not necessary. Next, clean the potatoes and cut into medium slices. Add the potatoes to the onions and carrots, to send the meatballs, rice and various spices (if you are not a supporter of spicy food, you can get by with just salt and black pepper with bay leaf). Water was added 1, 5-2 liters, while it should be immediately hot.
Continue cooking the soup already on the mode of "quenching" for 30-40 minutes. That's enough, since almost all of the products at this time are ready, and 40 minutes to cook a little longer and potatoes. So, if you have the meatballs are ready, then cooking soup you will spend only 5-10 minutes.
During this time you will throw all the ingredients in multivarku and will be able to devote the remaining time to something more important and interesting.
Recipe soup with meatballs Chicken
Minced meat a few eat. Some watch the figure and do not use any food other than diet. Someone is trying to save on the purchase of the product, because now buy the chicken is much more affordable than to buy beef or pork tenderloin. To prepare the soup with chicken meatballs, you will need:
1, 5-2 liters of water,
1 egg,
250 gr. chicken,
1 slice of white bread,
1 carrot,
3 potatoes,
100 gr. noodles at home,
1 onion,
herbs and spices.
This recipe involves cooking vegetables first. Therefore, in boiling water first, we did not send meat and diced potatoes and sliced carrots. We cook these foods until soft (about 15 minutes), during which time you will be able to cook meatballs. The grinder we miss not only the meat (in this case, chicken), but the onion and slice loaf. This mixture is seasoned with spices and salt, add 1 egg and mix well all. you just have time to roll into small balls to the half-potatoes and carrots.
Throw meatballs in broth. As soon as they emerge and change their color (meat brighten), diminish the fire and add to the soup homemade noodles. Soup cook a little longer for another 5 minutes (this is enough to ready noodles) and turn off the gas. This soup is also necessary to infuse for 10-20 minutes, after which you can pour it on plates, and top decorate with greenery.
Soup with meatballs
As mentioned earlier, the soup can be prepared even from meat ingredients. It only will be necessary to separately prepare a base soup and meatballs separately. The soup consists of the following components:
minced meat (you can cook it from any meat) - 300 gr.,
Potatoes - 5-6 pieces,
2 onions,
1 egg,
2 carrots,
2 tbsp. l. olive oil,
50 c. butter
200 gr. cream or milk,
salt,
pepper.
So, to start, we will prepare the meatballs. For this purpose, as before, we roll the meat in a meat grinder together with 1 minced onion and stir, add the spices and salt. In boiling water, molded send a medium-sized meatballs and olive oil. Again, it is determined by their willingness to change the color. Once the meatballs float, we catch them with a slotted spoon. Bree does not come out, leave it to cook soup.
But before cooking the soup, clear the remaining vegetables, which we then grind in a blender. Here it is possible to send a few cloves of garlic. But it would be better if you add it to the finished soup at the table setting. Chopped vegetables in a blender pour a small amount of broth and boil on medium heat for 10 minutes. At the end add the butter, and when it will melt, pour the cream into the soup. Pour the hot soup into bowls, place each 2-3 meatballs and put on top of the crushed clove of garlic. Soup is best served with croutons.
For maximum effect produced on children, try to give ordinary croutons original form. To do this, you need a few pieces of white bread that you can cut in the form of houses, flowers, or even in the form of fairy-tale characters. Croutons need to soak in the beaten egg and milk and fry in a frying pan. Instead, you can use the toast and pastries. They not only served with soup, and you can immediately put them in a bowl, which allow to decorate the dish when serving.
