Zucchini Soup with Meatballs
The recipe is another improvisation of how you can use healthy, dietary products to make a delicious and complete meal. It is one of our favorite soups, I recommend it for lunch but especially for dinner.
Zucchini is one of my mother's favorite vegetables, she grinds it small and puts it in any soup, like a kind of vegetable - it adds a very good taste, something I didn't know until I tried it. Besides the fact that it is very good, it is also healthy, you must try.
You can also improvise a chicken soup in which to put only zucchini, without meatballs - with them I found it more interesting.
The first thing I recommend is to make the soup base - the soup comes out much tastier and more complete.
So in a saucepan put the chicken cutlery (a little more bone - paws, wings, back - mine were from the country) - add about 2-3 liters of water to cover them well. Put on the fire, when it boils, take the foam and add the vegetables - here I put 1 whole onion and a finely chopped tomato (if you have you can also put 1 pepper, carrot, parsley root - all whole).
Add the bay leaf, oil and simmer, simmer for about 1 hour.
While the soup is boiling, prepare the meatballs.
I chopped the turkey meat together with half an onion - I added 1 egg, salt, pepper and a little chopped parsley. Mix well with your hands.
Shape the balls with your hands and arrange them on a plate or bottom - ready to boil the chicken cutlery.
After the bones and vegetables are cooked, take them out of the soup - all of them will be the soup base, aromatic and tasty.
Add the diced zucchini and the meatballs, when it starts to boil, turn down the heat and let it simmer for 30 minutes.
Pour the borscht, add salt to taste - simmer for 2 minutes.
If you don't put borscht, it will be a soup, just as delicious.
And finally add half a chopped raw onion and chopped parsley.
Turn off the heat immediately after it has boiled, do not let it boil.
Cover and let the soup penetrate for 15 minutes.
We served it with yogurt, you can put sour cream - but even without them it is very tasty.
Good appetite!
