Albondigas Soup Recipe

Meatball Soup Recipe

This Albondigas Soup Recipe (meatball soup recipe) is a Mexican classic and one of those easy soup recipes which offers a healthy one-pot meal. I particularly like using fresh coriander in the meatballs.

You can use leftover meatballs from the following recipes in this soup: Homemade Meatball Recipe with Fresh Tomato Sauce or Swedish Meatballs Recipe. Make up the soup and add the baked meatballs.

Easy

Preparation time: 10 - 15 minutes

Cooking time: about 30 minutes

Serves: 4

Ingredients:

1 large onion, diced

1 clove garlic, crushed

2 carrots, peeled and sliced into circles

3 tomatoes, chopped

1 can chopped tomatoes (14oz / 410g)

1 tablespoon tomato paste

2 pints / 1 liter chicken stock

a little oil for shallow frying

Meatballs:

1lb / 450g ground beef

1 cup loosely packed fresh parsley or coriander

1 teaspoon salt

½ ground black pepper

1½ teaspoon cumin

You will need a large pot.

Method:

1. Fry the onion in a little oil. Allow it to soften and brown slightly.
2. Add the garlic and carrots. Fry for about 2 minutes. Add the chopped tomatoes, canned tomatoes, tomato paste and finally the chicken stock. Simmer for about 5 minutes until the carrots have softened.

How to make meatballs:

3. Mix together all the meatball ingredients. Roll the mixture into balls just smaller than a golf ball. Avoid over-handling the mixture in order to try and keep the mixture light.
4. Once the soup has cooked for about 5 minutes, drop the meatballs gently into the soup. Cook for a further 20 minutes until the meatballs have cooked through.
5. When you serve the soup, this quantity will allow each person to have 4 meatballs.

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