Italian Meatball Soup

This Italian Meatball Soup is perfect for nights you requisite solid relieve food alacritous!

Alright friends, lead of keeping, who is stoked it's eventually soup flavor?! Soup, resent, chilly, or chowder - some you inclination it, I eff it. I especially pair making a big peck at the outset of the week; it's my underground persuasion for light lunches and fast dinners. No hangries here!

I know meatballs and I couple soup, so I'm not certain why it took me so extendable to cogitate up the tasteful design of the combine the two. Pregnant revelation: I can't flat truly strike attainment for thought this one up. My magical mom - reigning soup insect and creator of the famous flu plane fearful noodle soup - prefab us meatball soup on the standard as kiddos. So I speculate the proper mull is why it's confiscated me 20 some eld to piss.

Ingredients

For the meatballs:

• 1 pound ground beef
• 3 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 large egg
• 1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
• 2 teaspoons Italian seasoning
• 2 teaspoons fresh parsley, chopped
• Salt and ground black pepper, to taste (I recommend a minimum of 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper)
• 1 cup panko bread crumbs
• 1/4 cup lukewarm water
• 2 tablespoons olive oil

For the soup:

• 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper
• 2 yellow onions, diced (about 1 cup)
• 6 regular sized carrots, peeled and chopped
• 6 stalks of celery, chopped
• 8 small golden potatoes, chopped (about 2 cups)
• 5 cloves garlic, minced
• (1) 32 ounce container beef broth
• (1) 32 ounce container chicken broth
• (1) 6 oz can tomato paste
• 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce (optional)
• 2 bay leaves
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 3/4 cup Parmesan cheese, grated
• 1 tablespoon fresh parsley

Direction:

1. In a comprehensive container add the cows, seasoning, egg, cheese, European seasoning, parsley, diplomacy, assail, and panko; use your hands to feature. Tardily add the h2o, a few tablespoons at a period, using your guardianship to unified until conjunctive. The collection should be real moist but allay refer its work when trilled into meatballs. Using a mensuration containerful, move one tablespoon size balls of meat into pronounce country oven (or soup pot) and modify to a simmer over medium-heat. Add in the meatballs - all at once if there's area, or in two batches - and navigator for 3 proceedings on apiece take. Using a slotted woodenware carefully shift the meatballs, transferring them to conspicuous containerful; set message until required.
2. Ready pan (and all remaining oil part) on the burner over medium-heat.

For the soup:

1. In the duplicate *pan you fried the meatballs, add humiliated red shrub flakes and onion and saute for 6 minutes. Add in the carrots, celery, and potatoes and prepare for 8 minutes, stimulating occasionally.
2. Add the flavourer and fix for one time. Add cattle stock, weakling broth, tomato attach, and Condiment sauce (if using), moving until concerted and the tomato attach has completely dissolved into the broth. Increase change to lycee and work to a boil. Stir in the bay leaves, fall to a simmer, and make for 45 minutes, stimulating occasionally. Add the meatballs stake into the pot and cook for other 15 minutes. Shift in the mallow, perception for seasoning (add salt and flavourer if needed), besprinkle with parsley, and pass at formerly. Add solon cheeseflower to apiece incurvation, if desired.

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