Russian Potato Soup with Meatballs

Ingredients

• Salt

  Table

  1 tsp or 6g

• Pepper

  Spices, white

  1 tbsp, ground or 7g

• Water

  Plain, clean water

  8 cup or 1.89kg

• Potato

  Flesh and skin, raw

  2 potato, large or 738g

• Onions

  Raw

  1 cup, chopped or 160g

• Canola oil

  1 tbsp or 14g

• Carrots

  Raw

  1 cup chopped or 128g

• Red bell pepper

  Sweet, raw

  1 cup, sliced or 92g

• Parsley

  Raw

  ¾ cup or 45g

• Ground beef

  80% lean meat / 20% fat, raw

  14 oz or 397g

Directions

1. Mix ground beef with salt and pepper.
2. Roll beef into meatballs around 1 inch in diameter.
3. Chop up the potato and boil in about half a gallon of water for 15 minutes.
4. Fry finely chopped onions in vegetable oil until they become soft, about 5 minutes.
5. Slice the carrot and mix with the onions in the pan. Keep frying for 4-5 minutes.
6. Throw the chopped or sliced pepper into the pan and fry for one more minute.
7. Going back to the pot with the potato, carefully add in the meatballs and boil for 15 minutes more. Remove the foam as the meatballs boil.
8. Add the fried vegetables, parsley, salt and pepper to taste, and any other desired spices to the pot with potato and meatballs. Bring to a boil for one minute; turn off the heat. Let cool slightly.
9. Remove from heat and serve. Enjoy!