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Meatball Soup

Slow-cooked cabbage with meatballs in a tomato and beef broth base... what’s not to like? Stock your freezer with Marvelous Make-Ahead Meatballs (page 208) and prep is ridiculously easy. Transfer a family-size baggie of the meatballs from the freezer to the fridge the night before you make this meal and they’ll be mostly thawed and ready enough for the crockpot, or you can use fully frozen with an electric pressure cooker. (See the Recipe Notes area.) This recipe is found in the "Sanity-Saving Crockpot & Electric Pressure Cooker Meals" section of Trim Healthy Table, page 115. This recipe is a family-serve recipe that feeds 6 to 8 people.

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Servings: 6
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Slow-cooked cabbage with meatballs in a tomato and beef broth base... what’s not to like? Stock your freezer with Marvelous Make-Ahead Meatballs (page 208) and prep is ridiculously easy. Transfer a family-size baggie of the meatballs from the freezer to the fridge the night before you make this meal and they’ll be mostly thawed and ready enough for the crockpot, or you can use fully frozen with an electric pressure cooker. (See the Recipe Notes area.) This recipe is found in the "Sanity-Saving Crockpot & Electric Pressure Cooker Meals" section of Trim Healthy Table, page 115. This recipe is a family-serve recipe that feeds 6 to 8 people.

Ingredients
  • 20 meatballs Marvelous Make Ahead Meatballs recipe Page 208 (20 to 30 mostly thawed frozen Marvelous Make-Ahead Meatballs)
  • 1 large cabbage (sliced into large bite-size pieces)
  • 1 onion (sliced)
  • 6 stalks celery (sliced)
  • 43 1/2 oz diced tomatoes (3- (14 1/2-ounce) cans diced tomatoes)
  • 32 oz beef broth
  • 1 1/2 tsp TH Mineral Salt
  • 1 tsp black pepper
  • 1/6 tsp cayenne pepper (optional)
  • 1/2 cup brown rice (or hulled barley (optional for E)
Instructions
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    Put all the ingredients in a crockpot. Cover and cook on low for 5 to 6 hours (we have started with frozen meatballs before and cooked on high and are still alive, but we don’t necessarily encourage it). The meatballs will come apart some once you gently stir at the end of cooking, but that makes the soup even better. But don’t stir so that they become mincemeat.

Note

Recipe Notes

From page 115 of Trim Healthy Table:

"Guess we can’t force you to make our meatballs, darn it, so if you prefer to buy store-bought meatballs, look for ones with 3 or less grams of carbs as any more than that means too many starchy fillers."

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ELECTRIC PRESSURE COOKER DIRECTIONS: Add all the ingredients to a pressure cooker. Seal and cook at high pressure for 30 minutes. Use quick pressure release.

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MAKE A FAMILY MEAL:

  • For the weight-loss plan, if using ultra lean meat in your Marvelous Make-Ahead Meatballs, this soup will be an FP and can be eaten as is for an ultra-weight-loss meal.
  • Or you can add the rice or barley to the pot during cooking for an E and still have room for a piece of sprouted-grain toast with a small smear of butter on the side.
  • If you use regular beef for your meatballs (or store-bought meatballs), this soup will be an S, and you can have it with a piece of Fifteen-Minute Focaccia Bread (page 247) with butter.
  • Growing children can have grated cheese on top and buttered sprouted-grain toast for a Crossover.
Read it online: https://trimhealthymama.com/recipe/meatball-soup/