Habitual lunch consists of the first course(soup, cabbage soup or borsch), the second with garnish and vegetable salad. Each housewife knows how difficult it is to please a housewife and serve a dish that will please all members of the family, especially small children, the finicky eating habits of which are known to every mother. Today we will tell you how to prepare meatballs for soup, a recipe of which in several versions you will find in our article. A light broth with vegetables and balls of meat will definitely be liked by fastidious kids, and adults will not disregard your culinary talents.
How to make meatballs for soup: recipe number 1 - classic
To prepare appetizing and juicy meat balls, you will need the following ingredients:
- half a kilogram of minced meat, any: beef, pork or mixture;
- 50 ml of milk;
- crumb half a loaf (crust it is necessary to cut off);
- to taste a little salt and pepper.
Bread soak in milk, will be enoughput it into the liquid for 5 minutes, and then turn it into a soft, homogeneous mass with the hands or a blender. Mix with ground meat, salt and pepper. By the way, if you want to get airy melting meat balls in your mouth, pass the meat through the meat grinder 2-3 times. Preparation of meatballs will not take you 20 minutes: moisten your hands with water or egg whites and from the mass mold small, with walnut koloboks. Not necessarily every time, preparing a soup, to make a new portion. You can completely freeze some of the balls and use the workpiece later. To do this, proceed as follows: put the meatballs on a cutting board and put it in the freezer for several hours. After this time, take them out of the refrigerator and lay out portion by package, in each - 15-20 pieces. Simple and convenient.
Meatballs for soup: prescription number 2 - specially for children
If your child does not want to eat the firsta dish, then offer him such an unusual dish, where not meat balls, but real "octopuses" float. To prepare this miracle you will need:
- 300 g minced meat of your choice;
- 10 pieces. spaghetti (yes, exactly 10 long thin macaroni);
- a quarter of the bulb;
- salt, egg yolk and black ground pepper.
Finely chop the onion or chop it ona large grater, add to ground, mixed with yolk, salt and pepper. You should get a uniform meat mass. And now we're making meatballs for soup. The recipe contains a little secret: in order for you to get "octopuses", first blind a small meat ball, then break 1 long macaroni into 3 parts and just pierce them with a meatball. In the process of cooking, spaghetti will be brewed, and on the edges of the koloboks will turn out beautiful legs-macaroni. The child will certainly like this unusual soup. Now you know how to cook meatballs. Keep in mind that usually they are lowered into a pan 15 minutes before the end of cooking. And if you prepare meat balls for future use, as described in recipe No. 1, you can cook a tasty and light soup in just half an hour.
