Meatballs are a real lifesaver. They are intended for lazy housewives who have no time to cook big meals. You can cook cabbage soup with meatballs in a matter of minutes, especially if you know some of the subtleties.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
Shchi is a traditional Russian dish that is known to everyone. They are cooked from fresh or sauerkraut, sorrel, mushrooms, beans, lentils, nettles … In general, the list of products can be long. Surely every housewife has cooked them at least once. Cabbage, vegetables, roots and spices. That's all the simple and vitamin composition of cabbage soup. However, you will not be full of cabbage soup alone. Therefore, it is necessary to add meat filling to them, which can be made in the form of small meatballs.
Meatballs are small balls of meat that can be made from any minced meat. For baby food, a turkey, chicken or rabbit is suitable. For older people - pork, veal, beef. Such balls roll no more than a walnut in size. It is better to do this with wet hands, then the minced meat will not stick. And to make the meatballs more juicy and tender, you can put different fillings in the minced meat, such as cottage cheese, cheese, vegetables. And by constantly changing your additives, you will get new tastes of meatballs. In addition, these balls can be frozen for future use and kept in the refrigerator. Then the soup can be made twice as fast.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 58 kcal.
- Servings - 6
- Cooking time - 40 minutes
Ingredients:
- Minced pork - 300 g (any can be used)
- Cabbage - 250 g
- Potatoes - 2 pcs.
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Bay leaf - 3 pcs.
- Allspice peas - 4 pcs.
- Salt - 1 tsp or to taste
- Ground black pepper - or to taste
Cooking cabbage soup with meatballs
1. Peel the potatoes, cut them into slices about 1, 5 cm with a sharp knife and put them in a cooking pot. Remove the husks from the onion and place in a saucepan. Add bay leaves and peppercorns.
2. Fill the potatoes with water and place on the stove to boil. After boiling, reduce the temperature and remove the foam.
3. Season the minced meat with salt, pepper and any spices. I add more nutmeg. Minced meat can be purchased ready-made, or you can cook it yourself. To do this, pass it through a meat grinder. Twist the meat twice to make the meatballs more tender. You can also use a blender to grind it.
4. Form small meatballs.
5. Fry the carrots in a skillet until transparent and place in the pot with the potatoes.
6. Immediately add the meatballs. I draw your attention to the fact that the meatballs should be placed in boiling water, if you put them in a cool or warm broth, they will become rubbery.
7. Chop the cabbage and add to the soup.
8. Boil cabbage soup for about 5-7 minutes and season with garlic passed through a press.
9. Salt and pepper, remove the onion from the pan and boil the cabbage soup for 2-3 minutes.
10. Let them steep for 10 minutes and can be served. If desired, put a spoonful of sour cream in a plate for each eater.
See also the video recipe on how to make sauerkraut cabbage soup with meatballs.
