🇷🇴 Romanian Cuisine

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Meatball Sour Soup

Prep Time 30 min

Servings 6

Difficulty Medium

Calories 309 kcal

Tangy sour soup studded with tender beef-and-rice meatballs, diced vegetables, and fresh lovage, finished with a bright lemony broth.

Ingredients

1 Mix ground beef with rice, egg, grated onion, salt, and pepper. Form small walnut-sized meatballs.
2 Bring water to a boil. Add carrots, parsnip, and celery root. Simmer 10 min.
3 Gently drop meatballs into the simmering broth. Cook 20 min without stirring vigorously.
4 Add diced tomatoes and borș or lemon juice. Simmer 10 min more.
5 Season with salt and pepper. Add generous handfuls of fresh lovage.
6 Serve hot with sour cream on the side and crusty bread.

Did You Know?

Lovage (leuștean) is so essential to Romanian soups that no household kitchen garden is without it.