Mini Meatball Soup

Serves: 6

Mckayla Luettgen

1 January 1970

Based on User reviews:

52

Spice

49

Sweetness

51

Sourness

42

mins

Prep time (avg)

5.1

Difficulty

Ingredients:

1 medium

Onion (chopped)

1

Salt

6 cups

Chicken Stock

2 cups

Water

3 tbsps

Butter

Directions:

1

In a deep pot over medium heat add oil, chopped carrots, celery and onions and bay leaves

2

Season with salt and pepper

3

Cover pot and cook veggies 5 or 6 minutes, stirring occasionally

4

While the veggies cook, combine meat, egg, garlic, grated cheese, bread crumbs, salt, pepper, nutmeg

5

Uncover your soup pot and add broth and water to the pot

6

Increase heat to high and bring soup to a boil

7

When soup boils, reduce heat a bit and start to roll meat mixture into small balls, dropping them straight into the pot

8

You are making meat dumplings that will cook in the broth

9

When you are done rolling the meat, add pasta to the soup and stir

10

Cover and simmer soup 10 minutes

11

When pasta is tender, stir in chopped spinach in batches

12

When spinach has wilted into the soup, the soup is done and ready to serve

13

Adjust your seasonings

14

Serve soup with crusty bread or grilled 4 cheese sandwiches

15

In a small skillet over medium low heat, combine oil, butter and garlic

16

Cook garlic in butter and oil gently for 2 or 3 minutes

17

Remove garlic butter mixture from heat

18

Place a large nonstick skillet on the stove over medium high heat

19

Using a pastry brush, brush 1 side of 4 slices of bread with garlic oil and place buttered side down in skillet

20

Top each slice with equal amounts of the 4 cheeses, distributing them equally over the 4 slices

21

Top each sandwich with another slice of bread brushed with garlic butter, buttered side up

22

Flip the grill cheese sandwiches a few times until cheeses are melted and gooey and bread is toasty and golden

23

Cut grilled 4 cheese sandwiches from corner to corner and serve