Soup with lentils and meatballs

Incomparably delicious, satisfying, warming for lunch for the whole family! Soup with lentils and meatballs is very easy to cook. It turns out an incredibly rich bright first course. You can serve it with sour cream or just like that, sprinkled with ground allspice. It is convenient that the vegetables in the soup can be replaced and combined in different ways.

Pearl

Recipe author

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Red lentils

Minced meat

400

Potatoes

Onion (small)

Carrots

Bell pepper (small)

Tomatoes

Vegetable oil

Bay leaf

to taste

Salt

to taste

Greenery

to taste

Water (or broth)

1500

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 20 % 3 g

Fats 40 % 6 g

Carbohydrates 40 % 6 g

86 kcal

GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 40 min

Step 1:
How to cook soup with red lentils and meat meatballs? Prepare everything according to the list. Which minced meat is better to take for cooking meatballs? Absolutely any minced meat is suitable: mixed meat, beef, pork, and poultry. I used ready-made minced pork.
Step 2:
Peel potatoes, onions and carrots. Rinse all vegetables under running clean water. Peel the Bulgarian pepper from the seeds and remove the core. Remove the skin from the tomato if necessary.
Step 3:
Finely chop one onion and add it to the minced meat. Add salt to taste. Mix everything thoroughly. If desired, you can add your favorite spices and garlic powder to the minced meat.
Step 4:
Scoop the minced meat with a teaspoon and form a small ball. In this way, roll small meatballs from all the meat.
Step 5:
Rinse the lentils several times until clean water. Cut the potatoes into small cubes or cubes.
Step 6:
Boil water or broth in a saucepan. Send the potatoes, meat balls and lentils to cook. After boiling, add salt to taste and reduce the flame of the stove to moderate. Cook the soup until the potatoes and meatballs are ready. You will need from 15 to 25 minutes.
Step 7:
And at this time, prepare the roast. Grate the carrots on a coarse grater. Chop the second onion and bell pepper not coarsely.
Step 8:
Cut tomatoes into medium-sized cubes.
Step 9:
In a frying pan in vegetable oil, fry the onion, carrot and pepper until all the components are soft. Do not forget to mix the chopped vegetables so that nothing burns.
Step 10:
When the potatoes are soft, put the roast, tomatoes and bay leaf in a saucepan. By the way, lavrushka can be excluded at will. Wait for the moment of boiling, add finely chopped herbs and remove the pan from the heat.
Step 11:
Let the soup brew for 10-15 minutes and serve.

This soup is very popular with adults and children. On cold autumn and winter evenings, it warms up perfectly and gives a feeling of satiety.

From the specified number of components, I got a medium-thick soup.

Bon appetit!

Important! Regardless of whether the amount of water for soup is indicated in the recipe or not, it is best to focus on your own preferences (thick or more liquid soup you like), as well as on the size of your pan and the products taken for cooking. Do not forget that the author has his own view on the amount of meat, potatoes, cereals and other ingredients in the soup, which may not coincide with yours. In practice, this means that if you are cooking for the first time, you should not cook a whole pot at once. Make a soup for tasting - for one or two people. To do this, reduce the amount of all ingredients according to the recipe to 1-2 servings, and take the amount of water from the calculation: from one glass per serving - if the soup is very thick, to 1.5-2 glasses - if more liquid. Do not forget to take into account that part of the liquid will boil off during the cooking process. After tasting a small portion of soup, you can adjust both the amount of liquid and the proportions of ingredients to your taste. In the future, like most experienced housewives, you will be able to pour water for soup and lay the ingredients “by eye".

How easy is it to peel tomatoes? Wash them, make criss-cross incisions on top with a sharp knife. Put it in boiling water for 1-2 minutes. Take it out, cool it slightly and remove the skin.

Since the degree of salinity, sweetness, bitterness, sharpness, acid, burning is individual for everyone, always add spices, spices and seasonings, focusing on your taste! If you put some of the seasonings for the first time, then keep in mind that there are spices that it is especially important not to shift (for example, chili pepper).