This is a Healthy and family friendly soup, i saw this kind of meat balls soup in a TV show, but modified it to fit to our tastes.
Ingredients for Meat Balls
Minced Chicken - 1 lb
Grated Parmesan cheese - 3 tbsps
Bread slices - 2 (toast and grind to get chunky crumbs)
Egg - 1
Green chillies - 1 tbsp chopped (2 tiny chillies)
Mint - hand full chopped
Ginger - 1 tsp grated
Garlic - 1 tsp grated (1 big clove)
salt & pepper
For soup
Celery - 2 sticks chopped
Celery - 2 sticks chopped
Onion - 1 chopped
carrots/beans - about a cup chopped
Tomato - 1 cup chopped
Baby Spinach - 1 cup (2 hand fulls)
Chicken stock - 1 QT
oil - 1 tbsp
Corn starch - 2 tbsps
1 cinnamon,2 bay leaves, 3 cloves
Salt n pepper
Method:
- First mix all the chicken meat balls ingredients.
- Cover a baking tray with parchment paper and spoon out small balls
with the help of 2 spoons, irregular shapes look good too. Wet the spoons with water to have smooth balls. - Preheat oven at 350 and bake the balls for 20 - 30 mins. Chicken balls are ready, kids ate most of the balls at this stage.
- When the balls are baking start making the soup. In a big soup pot, heat some oil and drop in all chopped veggies except tomatoes, spices , salt pepper and fry for a little while, until onion turns translucent. Then add tomatoes and cook off. Dont add too much salt as we would be adding chicken stock which has good amount of salt.
- Add chicken broth and 3 to 4 cups of water and bring everything to a boil.
- Mix corn starch in a cup of water and mix it in this soup and stir constantly until the soup thickens with the cooked corn starch.
- Finally add the chicken balls and spinach and boil for 5 mins.
- There is no fixed measure for soups, as u can make it light or strong, thick or thinner, just upto you/your
family's comfort level. - Serve it with some crunchy bread toast and enjoy it for lunch/dinner. Since the Soup and chicken have different flavours, every time you take a bite of chicken ball, you ll find it as a delicious variation to the soup.
