Easy Chicken Meatball Minestrone
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Easy Chicken Meatball Minestrone - chicken meatballs are a low fat alternative that are still incredibly delicious in this healthy, colourful and very flavourful soup.
I've been concentrating on a bit more healthy eating these days and this easy, tasty soup is a pain free way to help. Beans for fiber, spinach and other veggies for the old vitamins and low fat chicken meatballs for protein; hey you can't call that unhealthy!! We'll not discuss what I had for dessert afterward though. I'll leave the other side of the coin for another day. ;
Easy Chicken Meatball Minestrone
Easy Chicken Meatball Minestrone - chicken meatballs are a low fat alternative that are still incredibly delicious in this healthy, colourful and very flavourful soup.
Ingredients
For the Meatballs
- 1 ½ pound lean ground chicken
- ½ pound lean chicken sausage, or you could just use 2 lbs of ground chicken and omit the sausage
- 1 cup breadcrumbs
- ¼ cup milk
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1 teaspoon cracked black pepper
- 1 teaspoon ground sage
- 1 tablespoon dried summer savoury
- 1 teaspoon crushed fennel seed
- 1 beaten egg
For the soup you will also need:
- 2 litres chicken stock
- 1 diced onion
- 3 cloves minced garlic
- 3 large carrots cut in sticks or coins
- 1 cup frozen sweet corn
- 1 can kidney beans, rinsed
- 2 tablespoon summer savoury
- 2 cups baby spinach leaves
- 4 tablespoon chopped fresh cilantro
Instructions
To prepare the Meatballs
Soak the breadcrumbs in the milk for 5 minutes before adding to all the remaining ingredients and mix well. This will be a loose mixture but as long as you can form it into balls, it will be okay. Add more breadcrumbs if the mixture is too soft.
Form into small balls and fry in a large heated skillet with 2 tablespoon oil added. Fry all the meatballs until completely cooked and nicely browned.
To prepare the soup
Deglaze the pan that the meatballs were fried in with a little chicken stock and add to a large pot along with all of the remaining ingredients, except the spinach and cilantro.
Simmer together for 20 minutes before adding the spinach and cilantro.
Simmer only for a minute or two more before serving.
Nutrition Information
Yield
6Serving Size
Amount Per Serving Unsaturated Fat 0g
