Watercress-Fennel Soup Alongside Chicken-Parmesan Meatballs

Ingredients:

meatballs:

1 lb basis chicken
1/3 loving cup (loose) chopped Italian parsley
1/4 loving cup grated Parmesan
1/4 loving cup breadcrumbs
1/2 teaspoon granulated garlic
salt
freshly basis dark pepper


soup:


four cloves garlic, sliced
two parsnips, sliced
1 minor bulb fennel (bulb as well as stalks sliced)
two stalks celery, sliced
1 onion, sliced into quarter moons
64 oz chicken stock
four oz fresh babe watercress
1/3 loving cup tubetti (or other minor pasta)
salt
freshly basis dark pepper



Directions:


for the meatballs:

Preheat oven to 400. Line a baking sail amongst parchment. Set aside.

In a medium bowl, mix together all the meatball ingredients. Roll into 1 1/2 inch balls. Place on the lined baking sail two inches apart. Bake for 12 minutes, flip as well as bake for four minutes more. Remove from the pan as well as role forthwith or cool as well as refrigerate upwards to 1 day.

for the soup:
Saute the garlic, parsnips, fennel, celery, as well as onion, until the onion is translucent as well as the parsnip is softened. Add the chicken stock as well as choose to a simmer. Simmer until the vegetables are tender. Add the meatballs.

If your meatballs were made ahead of fourth dimension as well as are cold, simmer until warmed through earlier adding the pasta. If they are fresh from the oven, add together the pasta as well as gear upwards until nearly al dente. Stir inwards the watercress, salt, as well as pepper. Allow the watercress to wilt. Serve immediately.


Note: 

If you lot are planning on saving leftovers, brand the pasta separately as well as add together it to each bowl when serving. Store leftovers separately as well as add together it when you lot become to reheat the soup.

My thoughts:

After making this soup, I realized it had to a greater extent than than a passing human relationship to Italian Wedding Soup. Don't know how that happened! I was trying to role upwards the purse of watercress I had inwards my refrigerator as well as the basis chicken I had bought for merely about other dish earlier our oven "incident". The expert intelligence is that, if you lot similar Italian Wedding Soup, you lot volition around probable similar this soup!

It actually is super flavorful yet super simple. For merely about argue when it comes to soup, I ever experience similar it is a lot of work. It actually isn't! I didn't grow upwards making homemade soup as well as my hubby is the type of mortal who when he makes matzah ball soup starts amongst a whole, raw chicken as well as takes all solar daytime to brand 1 bowl of soup as well as then I intend that actually contributed to it. However, if you lot are willing to role a box of stock or direct maintain frozen your own, you lot tin terminate direct maintain fresh soup inwards similar 40-ish minutes. I made the meatballs inwards the forenoon as well as refrigerated them as well as then at dinner time, everything came together actually quickly.

Parsnips are actually underutilized inwards soup, they are real earthy yet direct maintain a subtle sweetness. I dear fennel as well as for this soup, I didn't merely role the bulb at the end, I sliced upwards those stalks as well as tossed inwards the fronds. The stalks direct maintain a form of celery-like texture as well as it's a shame around recipes telephone holler upwards for tossing them. They are on the tough side but inwards a bowl of soup, that isn't an upshot at all. I'm trying actually difficult non to waste matter ingredients as well as then using the stalks is perfect. I dear watercress real much. It's got a peppery seize amongst teeth to it as well as it is surprisingly versatile. It actually holds it's form when added to hot soup which actually added a lot of texture involvement to the soup. I even as well as then loathe autumn as well as wintertime but this soup makes it a niggling chip better.