Ingredients
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Meatball Ingredients:
- 1–pound ground dark meat chicken or fresh Italian chicken sausage
- 1/2 cup short grain brown rice
- 2 fresh garlic cloves, minced
- 3 Tbsp. chopped fresh parsley leaves or cilantro
- 1/4 cup nutritional yeast or Pecorino Romano
- 1 extra-large egg (omit if not eating eggs)
- Fresh parsley, dill or cilantro for garnish
- Salt and pepper to taste
Soup Ingredients:
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 cup minced yellow onion or white part of leek
- 1–2 carrots, sliced
- 1–2 garlic cloves chopped
- 4 cups Chicken Bone Broth or or 1 recipe of quick chicken bone broth
- 1/4 cup minced fresh dill
- 1 bunch leafy greens; spinach, chard, Bok Choy
- Veggies; zucchini, green beans or sugar snap peas
- Fresh parsley and dill for garnish
Instructions
Method for baking meatballs:
- If baking preheat the oven to 350-degrees
- Place the ground chicken, garlic, parsley, nutritional yeast, egg, 1 tsp. salt, and fresh
ground pepper in a bowl. - Combine all ingredients and form meatballs.
- If baking, place meatballs on a parchment lined baking sheet pan. Makes about 25-30 meatballs.
- Pegs likes to sauté these in a skillet rather than bake and adds flavor from the meatballs into the soup OR bake 30 minutes, until cooked through and lightly browned. Set aside.
- If sauté, add enough olive oil to cover the skillet, sauté the meatballs. The juice from the meatballs in the skillet adds flavor. I like to pour the flavoring into the soup as well.
Method for the soup:
- Heat the olive oil over medium-low heat in a large heavy-bottomed pot.
- Add the vegetables, carrots, agreen beans, or sugar snap peas. Sauté until softened, 5 to 6 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Add the chicken stock and bring to a boil.
- Cook the soup for 20-30 minutes.
- Add fresh dill and the meatballs to the soup and simmer for a few minutes.
- Taste and adjust salt and pepper.
- Stir in the fresh spinach and cook for 1 minute, until the spinach is just wilted. Ladle into soup
bowls and sprinkle with minced parsley and or dill.
Notes
Other optional additions;
- 1 cup cooked brown rice
- Herbs
- Celery