Recipe: Perfect "Say Hello to My Bowl of Soup"

"Say Hello to My Bowl of Soup".

You can cook "Say Hello to My Bowl of Soup" using 22 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of "Say Hello to My Bowl of Soup"

1. You need 8 cup of chicken broth (low sodium).
2. It's 1/4 cup of white wine.
3. You need 1 of onion, diced.
4. It's 4 clove of garlic, minced.
5. You need 1 tsp of Italian seasoning.
6. You need of salt and pepper.
7. Prepare 1 tbsp of olive oil, extra virgin.
8. You need 1 1/2 tsp of dried basil.
9. You need 1/2 tsp of dried oregano.
10. It's 1 of carrot, diced small.
11. It's 1 1/4 cup of Orzo pasta (or any other pastini *small pasta*).
12. Prepare 1/2 of fresh lemon, juice squeezed.
13. It's 1 1/2 cup of roughly chopped fresh spinach (or 2 cups, depending on how much you love spinach) lol.
14. It's of Mini Meatballs.
15. Prepare 1 lb of ground beef.
16. Prepare 1 of egg, lightly beaten.
17. You need 1 of slice white bread (crust removed) and torn into little pieces.
18. Prepare 1/4 of small onion, diced small.
19. You need of salt and pepper.
20. You need 1 tsp of Italian seasoning.
21. You need 1/2 tsp of chili flakes.
22. You need 1/4 cup of Fresh parsley.

"Say Hello to My Bowl of Soup" step by step

1. In a large bowl, combine meatball ingredients, and form your mini Meatballs..
2. Place your meatballs on a baking sheet and cook in oven @ 400°F for 20 min..
3. Meanwhile, heat olive oil in a large soup pot and add your onion, garlic, carrot, dried herbs and salt and pepper. Cook until onion is translucent..
4. Add your white wine and cook for another 2 min..
5. Add your chicken broth then allow the liquid to come to a boil. Once it's boiling, add your pastini..
6. When the pastini is about 1/2 way cooked, add your meatballs to the pot and cook until the pasta is about 90% cooked..
7. Finally, add your chopped fresh spinach and juice of half a lemon. (It looks like a lot of spinach at first, but it'll cook down).
8. Allow everything to cook throughly (mainly the pasta).
9. Serve with fresh parmesan shavings (sadly I didn't have any today) and some crusty Italian bread along side..