Hungarian Meatball Soup Food

MINI MEATBALL SOUP

Steps:

• In a deep pot over medium heat add oil, chopped carrots, celery and onions and bay leaves. Season with salt and pepper. Cover pot and cook veggies 5 or 6 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• While the veggies cook, combine meat, egg, garlic, grated cheese, bread crumbs, salt, pepper, nutmeg.
• Uncover your soup pot and add broth and water to the pot. Increase heat to high and bring soup to a boil. When soup boils, reduce heat a bit and start to roll meat mixture into small balls, dropping them straight into the pot. You are making meat dumplings that will cook in the broth. When you are done rolling the meat, add pasta to the soup and stir. Cover and simmer soup 10 minutes. When pasta is tender, stir in chopped spinach in batches. When spinach has wilted into the soup, the soup is done and ready to serve. Adjust your seasonings. Serve soup with crusty bread or grilled 4 cheese sandwiches.
• In a small skillet over medium low heat, combine oil, butter and garlic. Cook garlic in butter and oil gently for 2 or 3 minutes. Remove garlic butter mixture from heat.
• Place a large nonstick skillet on the stove over medium high heat. Using a pastry brush, brush 1 side of 4 slices of bread with garlic oil and place buttered side down in skillet. Top each slice with equal amounts of the 4 cheeses, distributing them equally over the 4 slices. Top each sandwich with another slice of bread brushed with garlic butter, buttered side up. Flip the grill cheese sandwiches a few times until cheeses are melted and gooey and bread is toasty and golden. Cut grilled 4 cheese sandwiches from corner to corner and serve.

HUNGARIAN MEATBALL SOUP

Steps:

• 1. Mix together all ingredients for meatballs and shape into bite-sized ball shape. Place on a cookie sheet. Brown meat balls in 350 oven for 15-20 minutes. Drain off grease.
• 2. Meanwhile brown onions and garlic in 1 Tbsp. of reserved bacon grease.
• 3. Add all ingredients to dutch oven or soup kettle except for water and flour, and bring just to a boil; reduce heat and simmer for 10-15 minutes.
• 4. Put water and flour into an air tight container and shake until smooth and blended. Add to pot, stirring gently.
• 5. Simmer 10-15 more minutes until soup is thickened and potatoes are just tender.
• 6. Ladle into bowls and serve with crusty bread.

HUNGARIAN MEATBALLS WITH MUSHROOM GRAVY

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients for meatballs in a bowl except for butter and olive oil. Form into one inch balls.
• Heat pan on medium with olive oil and butter. (A few drizzles of oil, a few pats of butter.) Brown meatballs on all sides and reserve.
• In a deep sauce pan, heat olive oil over medium high. Add mushrooms and spices for gravy. Saute until browned. Add butter and flour. Cook for one minute. Slowly add beef broth and stir until smooth and thickened. If you are worried about lumps you can reserve some of the broth and make a slurry with that and the flour.
• When gravy is thickened add the finished meatballs to reheat. Stir in sour cream and heat through. Sprinkle with fresh parsley if you like.
• These go great with wide egg noodles or mashed potatoes.

MEATBALLS IN HUNGARIAN SOUR CREAM GRAVY

Steps:

• In a dutch oven, cook onion in olive oil until starting to soften.
• Stir in garlic, cook for 30 seconds.
• Add 3 cups water.
• Stir in soup mix,paprika,soup base and Worcestershire sauce.
• Add frozen meatballs.
• Heat on medium high heat until meatballs are heated through. about 15 minutes.
• Stir in parsley, sour cream and mushrooms.
• Mix cornstarch with 1/4 cup water in a small bowl.
• Slowly stir in cornstarch mixture a little at a time until you reach the desired thickness.
• Remove from heat.
• Serve with mashed potatoes or buttered noodles.

HUNGARIAN STYLE SWEDISH MEATBALLS, SERVED ON A NOODLE SCHMATA

Steps:

• Simmer dried mushrooms in beef stock for 15 minutes. Let sit for 1/2 hour, then drain through coffee filter, squeezing juice from mushrooms. Rinse the squeezed mushrooms and chop. Mix together the ground beef, onion, bread cubes, and seasoning. Form into 1-inch meatballs. Brown the meatballs, in batches, in a hot saute pan, and set them aside. Toss the crimini mushrooms in the flour and saute them in the same pan. Add the dried mushrooms, stock mixture and cream. Cook for 3 minutes. Stir in paprika. Swirl in 1-cup sour cream just before serving. Serve over 1 sheet of fresh pasta (schmata), with healthy drizzle of additional sour cream.