Mesa de Vida's quick and easy healthy Albondigas soup recipe

Albondigas Inspired Meatball Soup Recipe

A quick and healthy, delicious Mexican-inspired soup recipe.

Makes 4-6 servings.

Albondigas is a flavorful soup from Mexico. It is typically made with meatballs and a flavorful broth with rice mixed into the meat mixture.

In this quick and easy pour-and-go version, we use pre-made meatballs that simmer up in the flavorful broth, allowing you to bring a hearty, healthy soup to the table in 30 minutes.

You can opt to use bone broth in the recipe to make it even more nourishing.

Feel free to add some diced carrots, potatoes, and zucchini to the broth as well to make an even heartier stew.

*Italy also has a version of meatball soup called Italian Wedding Soup. Use this same recipe and swap in our Mediterranean inspired cooking sauce for another delicious soup to add to your recipe rotation!

Ingredients

6 cups chicken or bone broth

13-16 oz. prepared meatballs (frozen or fresh; chicken, turkey or vegetarian-friendly meatballs) cut into quarters. *We love US Wellness Meats Sugar-Free Pork Meatballs

2 cups kale, chopped

1 bottle Mesa de Vida Latin-Inspired Cooking Sauce

1/2 cup white rice, rinsed and drained

Salt to taste

Fresh lime and cilantro for serving.

Directions

  1. Place the broth, meatballs, kale, Mesa de Vida Latin Inspired Cooking Sauce, rice, and salt to taste into a soup pot.
  2. Bring to a simmer, then lower the heat to low and cover.
  3. Cook for 30 minutes.
  4. Squeeze each serving with fresh lime and a sprinkle of cilantro to serve.
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