This is a quick &easy super delicious soup for winter sniffles and beyond.
Ingredients
For the rest:
- 1 onion
- 4 stalks celery
- 4 carrots
- 8 cups Chicken, beef or elk broth or stock
- Orzo
For meatballs:
- 1lb ground pork
- 1lb ground meat
- Bread Crumbs
- 2 eggs
- Seasoning (I use Trader Joe’s Green Goddess)
- Beef tallow, butter or olive oil
- *2 Tbs Matzo Ball powder Not necessary
and I used it this time and it made the meatballs next level.
Recipe
Start by combining all of the ingredients for the meatballs. Make into balls and brown in a pot or pan. I prefer to use the pot I will be making the soup because I want to keep all of the flavor in the same place. If that means you have to brown them in batches, do that and set aside.
Chop and sauté the carrots, celery and onions (you can use garlic here as well, my husband just has a sensitivity so we never use garlic).
Add carrots, celery, onions, meatballs and stock or broth together.
In a separate pot boil the orzo. If you don’t have orzo use whatever pasta you have on hand, we didn’t have orzo so I used filini, it was cute. You can also use rice in a pinch.
Simmer for however long you can stand it. I simmered for about 30 mins and then served. We had a bunch left over and it got better over time.
Serve in the same bowl, soup over pasta.