• Thursday, November 18th, 2010
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Italian Wedding Soup
Ingredients
For the meatballs:
- 3/4 pound ground chicken
- 1/2 pound chicken sausage, casings removed
- 2/3 cup fresh white bread crumbs
- 2 teaspoons minced garlic (2 cloves)
- 3 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley leaves
- 1/4 cup freshly grated Pecorino Romano
- 1/4 cup freshly grated Parmesan3 tablespoons milk
- 1 extra-large egg, lightly beaten
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
For the soup:
- 2 tablespoons good olive oil
- 1 cup minced yellow onion
- 1 cup diced carrots (3 carrots), cut into 1/4 inch pieces
- 3/4 cup diced celery (2 stalks), cut into 1/4 inch pieces
- 10 cups chicken stock
- 1/2 cup dry white wine
- 1/4 cup minced fresh dill
- 6 ounces baby spinach, washed and trimmed
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- For the meatballs, place the ground chicken, sausage, bread crumbs, garlic, parsley, Pecorino, Parmesan, milk, egg, 1 teaspoon salt, and 1/2 teaspoon pepper in a bowl and combine gently with a fork. With a teaspoon, drop 1 to 1 1/4-inch meatballs onto a sheet pan lined with parchment paper. (You should have about 40 meatballs. They don’t have to be perfectly round.) Bake for 30 minutes, until cooked through and lightly browned. Set aside.
- In the meantime, for the soup, heat the olive oil over medium-low heat in a large heavy-bottomed soup pot. Add the onion, carrots, and celery and saute until softened, 5 to 6 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the chicken stock and wine and bring to a boil. Add the pasta to the simmering broth and cook for 6 to 8 minutes, until the pasta is tender. Add the fresh dill and then the meatballs to the soup and simmer for 1 minute. Taste for salt and pepper. Stir in the fresh spinach and cook for 1 minute, until the spinach is just wilted. Ladle into soup bowls.
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Bahahaha you crack me up. All of Ina’s recipes are amazing. They never fail me!
Ahh, that soup looks perfect for a chilly night. Ina’s recipe’s NEVER disappoint me.
Have you read The Help?? It was a good one!
Oh my goodness, that looks fantastic! I love Ina Garten, she makes me swoon whenever I watch her on TV, and I don’t think I’ve ever cooked a recipe of hers that I didn’t like. I highly recommend her Blueberry Coffee Cake muffins if you get a chance to bake them, they taste like a little piece of heaven
I’m currently reading My Life in France by Julia Child, which makes me very excited because it is definitely a “foodie” read. I typically don’t like lots of non-fiction, but I’m loving this book! I read Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen this summer, and that was excellent as well. My mother just finished a book called Room: A Novel by Emma Donoghue and said it was one of the best books she has read in a long time. (She works in publishing and we get free books 24/7, so I usually take her recommendations
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Hope some of my book recs help!
and is it wrong that my favorite part of your post is the guido references? too funny (i’m part italian too so it’s totally acceptable.)
Luv those meatballs! I’m a soup-lover and this one looks fantastic! (Is Ina ever wrong???) I just made her ribollita… (And I read lots of blogs in my free time! Enjoyed yours!)
That soup looks so good! I’ve never had Italian Wedding Soup. I really want to try it! Love Ina!
Hey! I made the same soup this week! http://betsylife.com/?p=2338 I love the Back to Basics cookbook! I just got it a month ago for my birthday and have made like 4 recipes from it already with many more flagged for the future!
I agree with Emilieviolet above, My life in France is an EXCELLENT book! I loved it and have recommended it to many people
This looks delicious! I love meatballs in soup
As far as books, have you read the Count of Monte Cristo? Favorite book ever! Plus anything by sophie kinsella, or philippa gregory, or francine rivers
I am laughing out loud over here – Jersey Shore always cracks me up. It’s like a major train wreck and you just can’t wait to see what happens next.
I saw Ina make this too and have been wanting to try it! You can never, ever go wrong with an Ina recipe – she is the best!
Hate to be a fuss pot but the pasta is missing in the ingredients list. Found ur site tonight been on it for hours. I’ll be back smooches