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Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
From: dmferrell@happy.uccs.edu (dmferrell)
Subject: Cheese "Ball Soup"
Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 1994 21:33:00 +0000
Message-ID: <10291994213357um@alexr.demon.co.uk>
RE: Ball Soup
My Italian grandmother made a riccotta cheese ball soup that is really
delicious. I don't know if this is the type you are looking for. It can be
made with stock or bouillon, which I do most of the time, but since Gram made
this during Lent or on meatless Fridays, she used buttered water. Either way,
it is good.
Cheese balls
1 lb fresh riccotta cheese (goat riccotta is the best)
1 cup finely grated Parmesan cheese (or very dry goat cheese)
2 cups fine dry bread crumbs
1 egg
salt and pepper to taste
dash or two of garlic salt
1 good handful of dry, crushed basil
Soup
1 stick butter or margerine
1 medium size onion
3-4 stalks celery
a little dry parsley
2 cups chicken stock or bouillon
about 4 cups of water--may need more, I don't really measure this.
To prepare the cheese balls mix all the ingredients together. The mixture
should be fairly hard, not soft as you make the mixture for ravioli. If it is
soft, when you add them to the hot soup they will come apart and the cheese
will just spread all over the soup--no cheese balls. Add more bread crumbs if
it seems too soft. Roll into small balls about 1" in diameter.
Set aside in refrigerator.
To prepare soup: In an 8qt stock pot, melt the butter. Finely chop the onion
and celery and saute in the butter on medium high heat until they are
translucent. Add the parsley and the stock and the water. Bring to a hard
boil. Remove the cheese balls from the refigerator and gently drop them in the
boiling soup. When they are done they will pop to the surface of the soup.
Add more boiling water if the cheese balls are not covered. This takes just a
few minutes, not more than 10. The soup becomes quite thick and hearty
especially if you add some cooked pastine (small specialty macs)
I like to serve this soup with a thick slice of Vienna bread or homemade bread
and butter, and a nice green salad with tomatoes. A delicious meatless meal.
The only trick to this soup, as I said before, is to make sure that the cheese
balls are very hard.
I hope you enjoy.
diane
dmferrell@uccs.edu