Easy Healthy One Pot Meatball and Pasta Soup
This one pot meatball soup so light, yet incredibly filling. It’s a delicious, easy way to serve up a complete meal with a good source of protein, vitamins, healthy fats, and a good amount of carbohydrate all in one bowl.
Ingredients
Meatball Recipe
- 400 g minced beef unfrozen and in room temperature
- 1 Large brown onion
- 1/4 Gren cabbage
- 1 Large egg
- 1/4 cup small coarse bread crumbs
- 1/2 tsp cracked pepper
- 1/4 tsp cooking salt
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp dried basil leaves
- 1/2 tsp white wine vinegar
Soup
- 1/2 Brown onion chopped into small dices
- 1/ 4 Green cabbage Sliced thin
- 2 Large carrots diced into your favourite shape
- 1 tbs good quality butter Unsalted
- 1/4 tsp cumin seeds
- 1 tsp homemade garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp white wine vinegar
- 1 homemade vegetable bouillon cube dissolved in a 1 cup of water
- 1 cups water
- 1 cup macaroni pasta raw
- 2 bay leaves
- 3 cloves
- 1 cup spinach
- salt to taste
Instructions
Making meatballs
- Add mince meat in a mixing bowl
- Then add all the condiments, the egg and bread crumbs
- Using a fork mix well until all the ingredients are well combined
- Take the mixture little by little in hand roll into uniform small meatballs
- Keep the meatballs side
Making the Soup
- Heat a deep pot (like a Dutch oven or stock pot) over medium-high heat. Add the butter cube. Once the butter is starting to melt, add the diced onion and cook until softened, about 2 minutes.
- Then add the meat balls and the bouillon stock (dissolve the bullion cube in a cup of water before adding in) and the extra cup of water to the pot
- At the same time gently add the raw macaroni into the pot and add the bay leaves and clove with it.
- When the pot starting to boil add diced carrot
- Cook for about 10 minutes in medium to high heat
- Two minutes before the end of the 10-minute simmer time, add the cabbage and gently push it down into the soup to submerge.
- Turn off heat. Add the spinach and gently press it into the soup until it wilts (this uses the residual heat).
- Ladle the soup into bowls and serve warm.