Best Albóndigas Al Chipotle Spicy Meatball Soup Recipes

LITA'S ALBONDIGAS (MEATBALL SOUP)

Steps:

• Mix ground beef, 1/4 pound tomatillos, eggs, white rice, 3 cloves garlic, 1 teaspoon cumin, and 1 teaspoon salt in a large bowl.
• Scoop 1 1/2 tablespoon of the beef mixture and roll into a meatball. Repeat with remaining beef mixture.
• Combine tomatoes, 1 onion, 3/4 pound tomatillos, chipotle peppers, and 3 cloves garlic in a blender; puree until smooth.
• Heat oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add tomato puree; cook and stir for 3 minutes. Pour in chicken broth. Season broth with salt and pepper. Bring to a slow boil; reduce heat until broth is barely bubbling.
• Lower meatballs carefully into the hot broth; simmer gently for 20 minutes. Add remaining 2 onions, carrots, celery, cilantro, and 1 teaspoon cumin. Simmer until rice in the meatballs is cooked through, about 1 hour and 15 minutes.
• Squeeze some lemon juice into each bowl. Serve with corn tortillas.

ALBONDIGAS (MEATBALLS) EN CHIPOTLE

Steps:

• Blend tomatoes, 1 onion, 1 clove garlic, and adobo sauce in a blender or food processor until smooth.
• Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat; cook and stir tomato mixture in hot oil until fragrant, about 10 minutes. Stir in chicken stock and continue to cook for 10 minutes more.
• Meanwhile, blend tomatillos, eggs, 1 small onion, chipotle peppers, 2 cloves garlic, chicken bouillon, and cilantro in a blender or food processor until smooth. Transfer mixture to a large bowl and add beef, pork, and rice; stir to combine. Roll meat mixture into walnut-sized balls.
• Transfer meatballs to tomato mixture; simmer until meatballs are no longer pink in the center, 15 to 20 minutes.

ALBONDIGAS SOUP (MEXICAN MEATBALL SOUP)

Steps:

• Make the soup base: Heat oil in large heavy-bottomed pot (5-qt) over medium heat. Add onion and cook until tender, about 5 minutes. Add the garlic and cook a minute more. Add stock, water, and tomato sauce. Bring to boil and reduce heat to simmer. Add carrots and string beans.

ALBóNDIGAS AL CHIPOTLE (SPICY MEATBALL SOUP)

Steps:

• For the broth: On medium heat, in a pot, saute the onion, garlic and cumin seeds in the olive oil until the onions are translucent. Add tomatoes and continue to simmer slow and low. It's ready when the tomatoes are cooked down and it looks saucy. You may need to add a little broth. At this point, either transfer tomato sauce to a blender jar with the chipotles, or if you have a hand-held blender, throw the chipotles in the pot and blend there with a little broth. When your tomato sauce is smooth, transfer back to the pot, add all of the broth, carrots, potatoes and fresh herbs, S&P, cover, and bring to a steady simmer for about 20 minutes or so. (I like to add zucchini, and kale if I have it. Add it a little later though.)
• Meatballs: In a large bowl, combine ground beef and pork, rice, oregano, egg, S&P with your hands. It's fun. Form into balls, size is up to you. I wouldn't recommend larger than baseball sized or they might fall apart. Gently add the meatballs to the soup one at a time. When they are good and buoyant and firm, they're done. Serve in deep bowls. Have fresh, chopped white onion, cilantro, lime wedges and chopped avocado for a garnish, and of course, plenty of warm corn tortillas! ¡Buen provecho!

ALBONDIGAS AL CHIPOTLE (MEXICAN MEATBALL SOUP)

Steps:

• In a small receptacle, soak the bolillo in milk for 5 minutes. Grind well the onion and garlic in a mortar.
• Add the tomatillos, mint, cumin, and grind together until it forms a paste. Add the mixture to the ground beef, salt and pepper, and mix well with your hands. Form Albondiga meatballs about 4 cm in diameter with a piece of the Chihuahua cheese inside. Set aside.
• To make the sauce, blend the tomatoes, onion, garlic, chiles and water in a blender to a puree.
• In a large pot, heat the oil and then add the puree. Let it boil around 8 minutes and then add the stock, bay leaf, and salt to taste Bring to a boil again. Reduce the flame and let it cook 5 minute. Add the Albondigas and cook on medium heat for 30 minutes. Spicy!

SPICY ALBONDIGAS

Steps:

• Combine ground beef, egg, bread crumbs, rice, cumin, garlic powder, and salt in a large bowl. Mix well.
• Bring chicken broth to a boil over medium heat in a large kettle.
• Form the beef mixture into 1 inch meatballs, using about 1 1/2 tablespoons of meat for each. Turn the heat down under the chicken broth to a simmer and drop the meatballs into the broth. Simmer the meatballs in the broth for 20 minutes, until meatballs are cooked through.
• Stir in the carrots, onion, celery, canned diced tomatoes with green chiles, tomato sauce, canned chiles, cilantro, garlic powder, oregano, and cumin. Simmer the soup for 1 hour to cook the vegetables and blend the flavors.