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| Italian Wedding Soup |
One of my friends is of Italian descent, and he told me about his family's traditional get-together to make Italian Wedding Soup. He said they would painstakingly make hundreds of tiny meatballs and that his grandmother would inspect them. If they weren't "as small as the tip of your pinky finger" grandma would make them start over.
I've come across so many recipes for this, but the necessary ingredients for each are tiny meatballs, greens, and very small pasta. I like acine di pepe.
Italian Wedding Soup
Serves 6-8
Printable Recipe
Meatballs:
1 pound meatloaf mix (ground pork/veal/beef)
1 large egg
1/4 cup Panko breadcrumbs
2 Tablepoons fresh chopped Italian parsley (flat leaf)
1/4 cup fresh grated Parmesan cheese
1 clove garlic - minced
1 teaspoon salt
Soup:
10 cups chicken stock
1 clove garlic - minced
1 cup diced celery
1 cup diced yellow onion
1 cup diced carrot
1 pound chopped fresh spinach or 9 oz. frozen chopped
1 cup small pasta such as acine di pepe
1. Mix together all ingredients for meatballs until very well combined.
2. Bring 10 cups of chicken stock to a slow boil.
3. Drop meatball mixture by the teaspoonful into the boiling stock - one at a time.
4. When all meatballs have been added to the stock, add remaining ingredients and simmer until carrots are tender and pasta is cooked - about 20 minutes.
5. Serve with extra Parmesan cheese sprinkled in each bowl.
8 comments:
Nope you are NOT alone! I would say it's one of my favs too. Funny, I just made this the for the first time a few weeks ago. It was a huge hit in our house!
MMMMMM....
oh, YUM! Giving dh a call to get ingredients right now!
It's a favorite for my whole family. Yours looks delicious, I wish I had a bowl now!
We made this tonight and it was a huge hit! I used little alphabet pasta. Our broth was quite rich so next time I'll use less salt in the meatballs. Our foodie/connoisseur (age 11) said it was the best soup he had EVER had! It was super easy too (could be because I had two sons do the meat!)
Oh, a little cookie dough scoop worked perfectly for the meatballs.
Thank you for this wonderful recipe!
I want to follow up almost 2 years later to say that it's still our family's favourite soup, and clarify that the recipe isn't as salty as I thought. I inherited some Italian seasoning from my mom and didn't know it had salt added to it! LOL. I have adjusted the amounts for our family to include double the breadcrumbs to make the meat go further and it's delicious. I increase the seasonings to compensate for the extra crumbs. Again, Anne, thank you so much for this!
Amazingly delicious and easy to make! Thanks so much for posting this recipe. It's delicious!
Just wondering what is meatloaf mix, your first ingredient? Are you talking about like a McCormick packet or something?
I'm sorry I can't really state it any better - it's a mixture of ground beef, veal and pork - a pound all together.
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