Spinach soup with meatballs - a hearty first course in chicken broth. Do you think about what to cook from chicken breast? I advise you to cook a simple soup for this recipe. It takes less than an hour to cook a delicious thick soup. One medium-sized chicken breast will make 6-7 standard servings, that is, two lunches for an ordinary family of three. Spinach can be taken fresh or frozen. Fresh will have to be thoroughly washed and finely chopped, and the frozen one has already been prepared - cut and pressed into convenient balls.
If you follow the figure and count the calories, then replace the fat cream with 1.5% milk.
- Cooking time: 50 minutes
- Servings: 6
Ingredients for spinach soup with meatballs
- 1 chicken breast (700 g);
- 300 g frozen spinach;
- 2 chicken eggs;
- 130 ml heavy cream;
- 25 g dried carrots;
- 5 g sweet paprika;
- salt, spices for broth.
A way to cook a spinach soup with meatballs
We split the chicken breast - remove the skin, hold a sharp knife along the keel bone, cut the fillets. Some meat on the bone can be left - soup broth from this will be more nourishing.
Put the rest of the breast and skin in the pan, add a bunch of parsley, onion, clove of garlic, pour 1.5 liters of water. Bring the broth to a boil, boil on low heat for 35 minutes, then filter through a sieve.
Spices for broth can be different, not only onions and parsley, fresh or dried celery, carrots, dried roots are suitable, in short, add what you have on hand.
Chopped chicken fillet cut into small cubes.
Strained broth again poured into a saucepan, bring to a boil, add spinach, stir, bring to a boil, cook for 5 minutes.
Making meatballs for spinach soup. To the finely chopped fillet add dried carrots, ground sweet paprika and salt to taste. All together, chop with a knife on the board, while mixing the ingredients. Minced meat can also be ground in a meat grinder.
We moisten hands in a bowl with cold water. We make minced meatballs, in this case - the smaller, the better.
At this stage, spinach soup with meatballs are salted to taste. Carefully throw in the boiling meatball soup. It is better to lower them with a spoon or a slotted spoon for several pieces at once.
When all the meatballs are in the pan, increase the heat, bring to the boil again, cook for 5 minutes.
Mix cream with chicken eggs with a whisk, no need to whisk much, it is enough to destroy the structure of the eggs.
Trickle the egg mixture into the boiling soup. We bring to a boil over medium heat, then remove from heat.
Serve hot spinach and meatball soup. You can additionally fill the soup with sour cream. Enjoy your meal!
Professional chefs do not allow eggs to curl. To prevent the white and yolk from boiling, you cannot raise the temperature of the dish above 83 degrees Celsius. I do not like boiled eggs and cook eggs so that the protein is completely roasted, so I bring the soup with the egg mixture to a boil. The taste of the finished dish, in my opinion, does not deteriorate at all, but the harmful bacteria will definitely die!
