Cabbage soup with minced meat. Cabbage soup, chicken meatballs, fresh cabbage. Video - benefits of white cabbage
A light dietary first course, cabbage soup, chicken meatballs, fresh cabbage, will satisfy the most passionate lovers of all kinds of diets. A very tasty and satisfying dish will decorate your dinner table.
We start preparing the first course, cabbage soup, chicken meatballs, fresh cabbage, by making chicken meatballs.
To do this, wash, dry and grind the chicken fillet in a meat grinder.
Peel and grind the onions in a meat grinder.
Mix minced chicken and onions. Beat a chicken egg into the minced chicken and onions. Add table salt and ground black pepper to taste. Knead thoroughly and roll small balls with wet hands, place them on a large plate in one layer and set aside.
Let's move on to the first course.
Fill the pan with water, a little more than half the pan, and place it on the stove.
Peel, chop the onion, and place it in the pan.
Peel, grate the carrots on a coarse grater, and place them in the pan.
Peel, cut the potatoes into cubes, and place them in the pan.
Boil the potatoes for five to seven minutes, add a few black peppercorns and add chicken meatballs.
Cook cabbage soup, chicken meatballs, fresh cabbage until the chicken meatballs and potatoes are fully cooked.
We wash, sort, chop the white cabbage and add it to the pan.
Add bay leaf, table salt and boil for another five to seven minutes, depending on the condition of the cabbage. The cabbage should become slightly soft, but at the same time should have a little crunch. Turn off the stove and let the cabbage soup sit for thirty minutes.
Pour the prepared cabbage soup, chicken meatballs, fresh cabbage into plates, add fresh herbs to the plates, and serve!
For the first course, we buy:
Based on a three-liter pan of cabbage soup
- chicken fillet (three hundred grams)
- onion (two heads)
- carrot
- fresh white cabbage (about a quarter of a medium head of cabbage)
- potatoes (three pieces, medium size)
- black peppercorns (five pieces)
- ground black pepper (to taste)
- table salt (to taste)
Wash and dry:
- chicken fillet
- onion
We wash and clean:
- carrot
We wash and sort through:
- cabbage
Grind and mix:
- salt, pepper
We roll balls - meatballs.
- carrot
- potato
- cabbage
- carrot
- potato
- meatballs
- spices
We add:
- cabbage
Let it brew and decorate.
White cabbage soup with meatballs is an unusual, but very tasty, at the same time light and satisfying first course. Traditionally, Russian cabbage soup is prepared using meat broth and sauerkraut. Our version of cabbage soup is very different from the traditional one, but it turns out not only, no less, but maybe even more tasty. White cabbage soup is prepared from fresh cabbage with the addition of other vegetables, flour dressing and meatballs. The dish is not at all complicated, but meatballs add such a special taste and sophistication to it that it is impossible to tear yourself away. Serving white cabbage soup with meatballs is very tasty with rich sour cream and white bread.
List of ingredients
- White cabbage- 1 PC
- onions - 1 pc.
- potatoes - 2-3 pcs
- carrots - 1 pc.
- parsley root - 1 pc.
- celery root- 1 PC
- minced meat - 100-200 g
- egg - 1 pc.
- flour - 2 tbsp. spoons
- tomatoes - 2 pcs.
- stale bread - 1 slice
- vegetable oil- 50 ml
- freshly ground black pepper- taste
- favorite greens - to taste
- salt - to taste
- sour cream - for serving
Cooking method
Pour about 2 liters of water into a saucepan and place over medium heat. While the water is heating up, peel and wash the vegetables. Thinly slice the cabbage, cut the carrots into strips, and cut the onion into cubes along with the celery. Place vegetables in boiling water, add salt and reduce heat. Let them cook quietly.
Meanwhile, place the minced meat in a bowl, add the egg and mix thoroughly. Add the bread soaked in milk or water and mix well again. Add salt and pepper and finely chopped herbs. Mix everything until smooth and form small round balls. Place meatballs into boiling soup.
Fry the flour in a dry frying pan. Add vegetable oil to it and fry everything together for about 2 minutes. Transfer the dressing to the cabbage soup. Finely chop the parsley root and tomatoes into pieces and add to the pan. Let the cabbage soup boil and cook for about 15-20 minutes until done. Pour cabbage soup into deep tureens, add chopped herbs to each tureen and serve immediately. Serve sour cream separately.
Bon appetit!
Meatballs are a real find for any housewife. This semi-finished meat product can be prepared independently, frozen and used as needed. With these meat balls, any first course will be prepared much faster than with meat. Although some may like dishes with chicken thighs or drumsticks more. But anyone can make meat balls from any type of meat: veal, pork, chicken or turkey. In each case it will turn out delicious. Using this preparation, you can quickly prepare rich vegetable cabbage soup with meatballs and cabbage. Next, consider a step-by-step photo recipe for cabbage soup with meatballs.
Ingredients
Cooking process
Cabbage soup with meatballs can be prepared with either fresh or sauerkraut. In this recipe we will use only fresh vegetables.
Preparing vegetables
Rinse the head of cabbage, remove the top spoiled leaves, and cut in half. Using a sharp knife, chop the halves into thin strips.
Bring a saucepan with two liters of water to a boil. When the water begins to boil, immerse the prepared vegetable in it.
Wash and peel the onions and carrots. Cut two onions into cubes and place them on a hot frying pan for sautéing. Peel the carrots, roughly chop them, and after a couple of minutes add them to the onion. Season the fried vegetables a little with pepper and salt.
Fry everything together for two or three minutes, then add two tablespoons of vegetable oil, add a little boiling water. Cover the pan with a lid and simmer the vegetables for 5-7 minutes.
Rinse the potato tubers, peel them, and cut them into equal medium-sized cubes.
Preparing the meat
To prepare the balls, rinse the meat. We divide it into medium pieces to make it convenient to prepare the minced meat. We do the same with the remaining two onions.
Scroll the prepared ingredients twice. Season the mixture to taste with spices and mix well. And in order to prevent the products from falling apart during freezing or cooking, the minced meat should be beaten before sculpting.
Experienced cooks often transfer the mixture into a thick plastic bag and hit it forcefully on the table several times.
Roll the ground turkey into medium balls.
Combining the ingredients
Season future cabbage soup with meatballs and cabbage with fried vegetables. Instantly the dish takes on a beautiful golden color.
Dip the finished meat products into boiling cabbage soup, then add bay leaves and peppercorns. At this stage, taste the cabbage soup with meatballs for salt and adjust to the desired taste.
Place fresh cabbage soup aside and cover loosely with a lid. Let it sit for a quarter of an hour so that the dish acquires the rich taste of all its ingredients.
Pour the vegetable soup into plates, garnish with fresh herbs, and serve with a slice of fresh black bread. Bon appetit!
Note to the hostess
Friends, today we are preparing cabbage soup with meatballs, a recipe for a well-known and beloved first course.
All varieties of cabbage soup made from fresh cabbage are very popular in many countries, and take their place of honor among first courses. Which is not in vain, because the food is nourishing, rich, tasty and, at the same time, still healthy. Therefore, everyone should definitely cook and try it at least once.
Like all dishes, it is prepared in many ways, but the following remains unchanged:
- First, cabbage. The name of the dish already suggests that this vegetable should be present in it. Cabbage can be either fresh or pickled. In addition, options using Chinese or red cabbage are allowed.
- Secondly, meat. It can be used in any way: beef, pork, chicken.
The remaining products are used as for all soups: potatoes, carrots, onions, spices and herbs.
In addition, butter is added to the first dish for satiety, squeezed garlic for appetite and taste, and sour cream is poured onto the plate, if desired. Boil cabbage soup with meatballs for a long time so that the broth has richness.
This recipe also includes fresh cabbage. Therefore, a few words about meatballs.
How to make minced meatballs for soup?
To get a delicious soup with meatballs, you must follow important rules for its preparation:
- The shape of the meatballs should not exceed the size of a hazelnut, then you can be sure that they will not fall apart during cooking.
- It is advisable to pass the minced meat through a meat grinder twice, and through a fine sieve, this will allow it to stick together better without the use of eggs. Because eggs, according to experienced cooks, spoil the taste of meatballs, making them tougher and the broth cloudy.
- You should also observe proper cooking of meat balls - they should be dipped exclusively in broth or water simmering over low heat. When they are all immersed in the pan, increase the heat to medium and continue cooking the soup following the recipe.
Now that we know all the secrets of preparing delicious and rich cabbage soup with meatballs, let's start cooking this soup.
Ingredients:
- Minced pork – 300 g
- White cabbage (or sauerkraut) – 300-400 g
- Potatoes – 2 medium sized pieces
- Garlic – 2-3 cloves
- Carrots – 1 piece
- Bay leaf and peppercorns - 3-4 pieces each
- Salt and ground pepper - to taste
- Onion – 1 piece
- Butter – 20 g
The process of preparing a delicious and satisfying soup with fresh cabbage and meatballs
- Peel and wash the potatoes. Cut it into medium-sized cubes and put it in the pan. Add the peeled onion, bay leaf and peppercorns.
- Fill the potatoes with drinking water and put them on the stove to cook.
- Peel the carrots, grate them on a coarse grater or cut them into medium bars and add them to the pan. We also put butter in the pan, it will add more richness to the broth. Bring the ingredients to a boil. Afterwards, reduce the heat and cook the vegetables for about 10 minutes.
If desired, carrots can be sauteed in a frying pan in vegetable oil. This will increase the calorie content and enhance the taste of the dish.
- In the meantime, prepare the minced meat (you can use store-bought stuff, but I prefer homemade minced meat). Grind the meat several times and season it with salt and pepper. Mix the minced meat and beat it several times. To do this, we will take it in our hands, lift it up and throw it back onto the plate or onto the cutting board. Let's do a similar procedure 5-7 times.
This method will release the gluten from the meat, which will allow the minced meat to hold together without adding eggs.
- Let's form medium-sized meatballs.
The meat ball should be the size of a cherry and a walnut.
- Then put the meatballs into the pan with the vegetables.
- Following the meatballs, immediately add finely shredded cabbage.
If you use sauerkraut, first rinse it with running water to remove excess salt.
- We will cook the cabbage soup with meatballs until almost done. 2 minutes before the end of cooking, squeeze the peeled garlic cloves into the pan through a press.
- We will also remove the onion from the dish - it has already given up its beneficial and taste properties. Let's let the soup boil. If you wish, you can add herbs to the broth. Now you can remove the pan from the stove.
- Leave the vegetable soup with meatballs to brew for 10-15 and you can serve it.
Bon appetit!
Cabbage soup with meatballs can be prepared according to other recipes, adding nutritional value and new flavors by adding: pearl barley, millet, buckwheat, or beans.
Although the classic recipe for fresh cabbage soup does not include these products, such versions of the dish are still very popular. They are nourishing, rich and have a distinct taste.
Video - benefits of white cabbage
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