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Italian Meatball and Vegetable Soup Recipe
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Easy Italian Meatball and Vegetable Soup
Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
25 mins
Total Time
40 mins
 

Enjoy this hearty and healthy gluten free recipe using freshly made or frozen ground beef meatballs.

Servings: 8
Author: Elaine Watkins | Food and Living Coach
Ingredients
Meatballs
  • 1 Tablespoon Coconut oil (Melted, Refined or Expeller-Pressed)
  • 2 Pounds Ground beef (Defrosted)
  • 1 Tablespoon Garlic powder
  • 1/4 Teaspoon Salt
  • 1 Teaspoon Oregano (Fresh chopped or dry)
  • 1/8 Teaspoon Ground pepper
Vegetables and Soup
  • 1 Onion (Ends and outer skin removed, diced)
  • 4 Carrots (Peeled, ends removed, sliced into rings)
  • 1 Carton Mushrooms (Optional: Tips trimmed, mushroom quartered)
  • 1 Green Pepper (Stem and inside white flesh removed, diced)
  • 3-4 Ounces Tomato Paste
  • 1 Tablespoon Garlic Powder
  • 4-6 Cups Bone broth
  • 1 Sprig Oregano (Stem removed, leaves chopped)
  • 1 Sprig Rosemary (Bruised leaves and put in whole or remove stem and chop leaves)
  • 1/4 Tablespoon Arrowroot powder (Optional: To thickness preference)
  • 1-2 Tomatoes (Optional: Scar removed, diced)
  • Salt and Pepper (To taste)
Instructions

  1. Spread oil over bottom of pot at low heat.

  2. Mix remaining meatball ingredients together, shape into balls slightly smaller than a golf ball and place in pot to brown.

  3. Cover with lid, reset heat to medium and cook approximately 5 minutes rotating the meatballs, gently, 1 time.

  4. Add chopped vegetables (except diced tomatoes) and similar for 1-2 minutes. 

  5. Add remaining ingredients and stir gently until well blended.

  6. Bring to a low boil, then drop your heat to low and cook for 15 minutes.

  7. Turn off heat, drop in diced tomatoes, and serve.

Recipe Notes
  • If preferred, use 1 clove of minced garlic in the meatballs and 2-3 cloves of minced garlic in the soup instead of garlic powder.
  • Start adding vegetables to pot after turning meatballs to let them start cooking while prepping and adding remaining ingredients.
  • If using frozen meatballs, use fat frozen with the meatballs, in place of coconut oil. Warm them in soup pot and skip to Instruction #4.