Chicken and Beef Meatball Soup

"This Dutch recipe is my mother's. She was making this in Holland from scratch during the war. In 1951 we came to America and she continued making it until she quit cooking around 1981. I Love this soup, my brother and sister and I make this especially around Christmas and New Years time. After coming to the US in 1951 she found that the boxed Lipton Chicken Soup without meat worked and tasted as well as spending time making her own chicken broth."
 
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Ready In:
45mins
Ingredients:
7
Serves:
6-8
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ingredients

  • 2 (1 7/8 ounce) boxes Lipton Instant Chicken Soup Mix, NO chicken meat (2 envelopes per box)
  • 4 quarts water
  • 1 lb ground beef (15-22% fat content (Using a low fat beef will not work as the soup will taste like boiled water)
  • 12 teaspoon nutmeg
  • 14 cup dried parsley
  • 2 -3 ounces vermicelli
  • 1 dash Dutch Beef Extract Maggi (American brand MAGI will not work as it tastes very different from the Dutch brand)
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directions

  • Follow instructions on the box for instant soup. Too much or too little water and the soup is either too weak or too salty.
  • Add chicken stock mix to boiling water.
  • Roll ground beef into little meat balls approximately the size of a quarter.
  • Bring chicken stock mix to a boil, add the meat balls, add the vermicelli, nutmeg and parsley. Break vermicelli noodles into 1/2 inch pieces. adding too much vermicelli makes the soup too thick.
  • Cook until all meatballs surface, approximately 15 minutes.
  • Add a dash of Magi to taste, otherwise use salt and pepper. (a few dashes of dark Japanese soy sauce can be substituted, but it just doesn't taste the same, just too salty).
  • This soup can be eaten right after it is made, but is much better the following day after it is refrigerated and reheated. Place in refrigerator.
  • After cooling, don't skim fat.
  • Place back on burner and reheat.
  • Good for three or four days and is delicious. To serve as a meal, add a nice salad and some crusty bread and butter. Enjoy!

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Reviews

  1. My Oma and Opa always had a pot of a very similar soup on when we came to visit. This and olliebollen, stompot, and croquettes are some of my favourite foods. Thank-you, Mr. Wapstra!
     
  2. A very classic Dutch soup, much loved by our children, and also by me as a child! I scaled down the recipe a little bit. My envelopes of Lipton chicken noodle soup called for 3 cups of water each. I used about 300 grams of a mix of ground beef and pork. I also used fresh parsley. The nutmeg and Maggi seasoning really make the Dutch flavour.
     
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Born and raised in The Netherlands. Immigrated to the U.S.in 1951 at the age of nine. Enlisted in the Navy 1960. Retired in 1980. Postal Service 1980-2005 retired age 63. In case you get the wrong idea. I lost my right index finger tip in a washing machine wringer gear accident age 4.
 
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