The usual lunch consists of the first dish (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 be exactly like the finicky kids, and even adults will not ignore your culinary talents.
How to make meatballs for soup: recipe # 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 must be cut);
- to taste a little salt and pepper.
Bread soak in milk, it will be enough to lower it into the liquid for 5 minutes, and then turn it into a soft, homogeneous mass with the help of 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 does not take you and 20 minutes: moisten your hands with water or egg whites and from the mass mold a small, with a walnut kolobok. Not necessarily every time, preparing a soup, to do a new serving. You can completely freeze some of the balls and use the workpiece later. To do this, proceed as follows: place 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 first 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);
- quarter of bulbs;
- salt, egg yolk and black ground pepper.
Finely chop the onion or grate it on a large grater, add the minced meat mixed with yolk, salt and pepper. You should get a homogeneous meat mass. And now we make meatballs for soup. The recipe contains a little secret: in order for you to get "octopuses", first blind a small meatball, after breaking one long macaroni into 3 parts and just pierce them with a meatball. In the process of cooking, spaghetti will dissolve, and on the edges of the koloboks will turn out beautiful legs-macaroni. The child will certainly like such an 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 cook meat balls for future use, as described in recipe # 1, you can cook a tasty and light soup in just half an hour.