Soups and cakes with sorrel begin to cook in late spring, when nature wakes up after hibernation and the first green leaves endows cooks. Sorrel soup with meatballs is not just nutritious and tasty first course, vitamins and use it enough. This soup on a festive table is not ashamed to apply, and on weekdays for a family dinner to regale is not a sin.

Sorrel and meatballs: a successful alliance

No matter at what syllable is the accent in the word "sorrel", from this it does not change a sour taste. This vegetable plant belongs to the family Polygonaceae, sometimes grows to one meter, soup collect the young tender leaves. This plant-based foods contain large amounts of vitamins A, B, C and trace elements - copper, sodium, magnesium, nickel, fluorine, zinc, iron, potassium, tannins and flavonoids. Appears on sorrel vegetable beds in the spring of one of the first vegetable crops, where the need for fresh vitamins Vitamins for everyone   enhanced flared beriberi.

Meatballs - small meat balls that are boiled in broth. For the first time this dish Russians have learned in the days of Peter the Great, when, together with other European Overseas recipes cook brought him to Russia. Prepare the meatballs from the fresh meat or fish meat, add to it only spices and herbs. Sorrel soup with meatballs obtained nourishing, sour, tasty and nutritious.

Soup Recipes

Big bunch of fresh sorrel rinse each leaf and put on a clean, dry towel linen. From stuffing, made from fresh pork, beef, chicken or fish, formed into small balls, dip them in a meat or fish broth. Number of meatballs Meatballs: the secrets of delicate taste   put rate of four to five units per serving.

Fry in oil or butter worn on a coarse grater carrots, finely chopped onions or leeks, you can add chopped bell peppers. This zazharku add to a pan of boiling meatballs after it boil for five minutes, diced potatoes. Add salt to taste the soup. Dried out sorrel whip in a blender or finely chop with a knife and place in pan. Cook for another five minutes, add salt, if necessary. Sometimes, sorrel soup with meatballs add whipped mash of chicken eggs with the salt, which is introduced into the pot at the end of cooking.

On a note

Sorrel soup with meatballs served immediately after cooking, arrange on plates half a hard-boiled egg and a spoonful of sour cream Smetana: untold riches of Russian cuisine . Depending on the variety, maturity and quantity of sorrel soup can turn very sour. Optionally, you can add salt or strong spices and herbs.

If sorrel soup chop with a knife, you must first remove the hard stems, which give the dish a "discomfort": hard cuttings unpleasant to chew, pull out the plates indecent. Sorrel, passed through the blender is not a mess, and finely crushed leaves of plants that look beautiful on the plate.

Sorrel soup with meatballs may have different caloric content, depending on at what it boiled soup, a meat goes on to minced meatballs. Most dietary option turns chicken or fish meatballs cooked in vegetable broth. The portion of the soup (two hundred and fifty grams) is not more than seventy-eighty calories.

Collect sorrel for cooking it is necessary to bloom while leaves and young juicy. Spring plants are short term, so it is possible to prepare for the winter by freezing in the refrigerator or frayed with salt, put them into jars. Of these domestic preparations in the winter are obtained delicious spring.

It is interesting

Mention of sorrel, as garden plants, found in medieval writings of historians of the XII century: from a variety of dishes prepared in France. In Russia for many years was considered sorrel weeds, only the last one hundred years, this plant has received a well-deserved residence on Russian cuisine. Today, with sorrel cooked more than three hundred different dishes around the world.

Jeanne Pyatirikova

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