Potato Soup With Rivels Food

BAKED POTATO SOUP WITH RIVELS

Steps:

• Heat a skillet over medium heat. Add bacon and fry until crisp, 3 to 5 minutes. Pour bacon and grease into a large pot. Add potatoes, corn, celery, onion, carrot, and garlic. Pour in chicken broth and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover, and simmer until vegetables are tender, about 15 minutes.
• Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Add 3 tablespoons flour and whisk until smooth. Pour in milk, bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer until soup is thickened, about 2 minutes.
• Beat eggs in a bowl. Add 1 cup flour and stir with a fork until rivel dough is completely moistened.
• Mash the soup vegetables lightly in the pot. Add milk mixture. Stir to combine.
• Drop teaspoon-sized chunks of rivel dough into the soup a few at a time, stirring as you go to prevent them from sticking together. Cook over low heat until rivels are solid, about 15 minutes. Stir in Cheddar cheese, Swiss cheese, parsley, salt, and pepper.

RIVEL SOUP

Steps:

• In a small bowl, combine flour and salt. Cut in egg with a fork until crumbly., In a large saucepan, heat milk over medium heat until bubbles form around sides of pan. Gradually add flour mixture; bring to a gentle boil, stirring constantly. Cook and stir for 1-2 minutes or until rivels are cooked through. Sprinkle servings with parsley and pepper.

POTATO SOUP WITH RIVELS

Steps:

• Cover the bite-sized potato cubes with cold, salted water.
• Bring to a boil over high heat and then turn down the heat to a simmer and cook until done (about 15 minutes).
• Pour the flour into a bowl and form a well (indentation) in the center.
• Beat the eggs together and pour them into the flour well.
• Pinch the flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt and egg together and the mixture will start to separate in to ‘pellets’.
• Drop the pellets into the boiling cooked potatoes.
• Simmer an additional 10 minutes or until the rivels (formerly known as pellets) are cooked through.
• Add the milk to the soup and heat through (do not boil).
• Season to taste.

POTATO BACON RIVEL SOUP

Steps:

• Cook potatoes, onions, celery, salt, dash pepper in 2 cups of water in stockpot. Cover and cook until potatoes are easily pierced with tip of knife.
• To make rivels: beat egg and salt with fork in medium bowl. Add flour all at once and beat until small pebbles form. Use your fingers to break apart if necessary. If you have flour that did not incorporate into the egg, then just add it with the rivels as it will help thicken the soup.
• Add uncooked rivels slowly, adding water if necessary, stirring constantly, approximately five minutes until tender. Add whole milk and crisp bacon and bacon grease. Add evaporated milk and simmer until flavors are well blended.

GRANDMA'S RIVELS

Steps:

• Bring broth to a boil while you make the rivels.
• To make rivels:
• Put flour and salt in a bowl.
• In a separate bowl, scramble eggs with a fork.
• Add eggs to flour/salt mixture and "rivel 'em up" (just stir around with a fork until mixture becomes crumbly).
• Drop by small handfuls into boiling broth.
• Boil for 15 minutes and enjoy!
• **If the broth isn't flavorful enough, add some chicken soup base.
• **You can pinch some of the dough together to get bigger "rivels".
• **You can also add cooked chicken to the soup.
• **Also works well with ham or beef broth.