Hungarian Meatball Soup Recipes

Steps:

• Melt butter in a soup pot over medium heat. Add sausage and cook and stir until lightly browned, about 3 minutes. Use a slotted spoon to remove sausage to a bowl, leaving behind any butter in the pot.
• Toss onion into the pot with 1 teaspoon salt. Cook and stir until onion just starts to turn translucent and picks up a brown color from the meat juices in the pan, 4 to 5 minutes. Add flour; cook and stir for 2 to 3 minutes. Add garlic and paprika; cook and stir until fragrant, about 1 minute, being careful not to burn the paprika.
• Stir in 5 cups chicken broth. Increase heat to high and bring to a simmer, stirring occasionally so flour does not stick to the bottom of the pot. Stir in cabbage and cook until it just loses its stiffness, about 2 minutes. Stir in potatoes and bring back to a simmer. Add black pepper, cayenne pepper, and bay leaf, plus a splash of chicken broth if desired. Bring back to a simmer.
• Stir soup and reduce heat to medium-low. Simmer, stirring occasionally, until potatoes are very soft and tender, about 30 minutes. Add sausage and vinegar and simmer for 10 minutes. Taste and adjust for salt.
• Remove from heat and ladle into bowls. Garnish with sour cream, green onions, and cayenne pepper.

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a large pot over medium heat. Cook and stir the onions in the butter until fragrant, about 5 minutes. Add the mushrooms and continue cooking until the mushrooms are tender, about 5 minutes more. Stir the dill, paprika, soy sauce, and chicken broth into the mushroom mixture; reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer 15 minutes.
• Whisk the milk and flour together in a small bowl. Stir the mixture into the soup. Add the tomato and Hungarian wax pepper. Return cover to the pot and simmer another 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. Season with salt and pepper. Mix the sour cream into the soup and continue cooking and stirring until the soup has thickened, 5 to 10 minutes more. Remove the Hungarian wax pepper and tomato and discard before serving the soup.

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.

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.

Steps:

• First roast your meat and bones in a roaster uncovered at 300* for 2- 2 1/2 hrs.
• Drain the fat and place the meat and bones in a large soup pot.
• Cover with water and add the garlic, peppercorns, onion,bay leaf and salt.
• Bring to a boil and simmer for 1/2 hr.
• Skim any foam that forms.
• Now add the vegetables, except the green pepper, tomatoes, and cabbage leaves.
• Simmer until the meat and vegetables are done.
• The last 5 min.
• Add the tomatoes, green pepper and cabbage leaves.
• Remove and dicard the bay leaf and the soup bones.
• Refrigerate the soup and skim off any fat after it has chilled.
• The beef can be cut up into bite-size pieces and used for the soup or served as a side dish with a sauce and boiled potatoes to make an entree after the soup.
• Dumplings are very good with this soup as well.
• In Hungary they serve Chicken liver dumplings with the soup and a roux-like tomato sauce with the meat.

Steps:

• *Note: Remove most of the seeds from the chiles.
• Combine beef, rice, paprika and savory.
• Season to taste with salt and pepper.
• Mix lightly but thoroughly.
• Form into 1-inch balls, then roll in flour.
• Combine water, bouillon cubes, 1 tablespoon salt, 1 teaspoon pepper, green onions, green pepper, carrots and tomatoes in large kettle. Cover, bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer 30 minutes.
• Add meatballs, cover and bring to boil again.
• Reduce heat and simmer 20 minutes.
• Add chiles and simmer, covered, 40 minutes or until rice is cooked.
• Add parsley during last 5 minutes of cooking time. Taste and add more salt and pepper, if needed.
• Just before serving, beat egg with lemon juice. Stir 1 to 2 tablespoons hot soup into egg mixture, then stir egg mixture into soup.
• Heat and stir until soup is thickened slightly, but do not allow to boil.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, add beef, bread crumbs, egg, garlic, salt and pepper. Mix together and form into meatballs roughly 1 1/2" in diameter.
• In a large skillet, heat oil over medium-high. Add half the meatballs - cook until all sides are lightly browned, about 5 to 7 minutes.
• Scoop the meatballs out onto paper towels to drain - repeat with remaining meatballs.
• Pour off all but 1 tablespoon of the fat in the skillet and add the onion, mushrooms, carrots and celery - cook until softened, about 3 to 5 minutes.
• Sprinkle in flour and paprika -whisk in flour and paprika and let cook for 1 minute.
• Gradually whisk in the beef broth and bring to a boil - season to taste with salt and pepper.
• Add the reserved meatballs and caraway seeds, reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer for 5 minutes.
• Serve over warm egg noodles.