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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Italian >> Italian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Meatballs: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. | 2. Mix all ingredients together. | 3. Form into very small balls (I get approximately 90 meatballs from 1 pound ground beef. I bake mine on a nonstick cookie sheet and turn them half-way through the cooking time). | 4. Bake about 10-15 minutes, until the meatballs have browned but are still soft (watch closely). | 5. Remove from oven and drain on paper towel, if necessary. | 6. Soup: Place all of the ingredients, except the pasta and escarole or spinach, into the crock pot with meatballs. | 7. Cook on low for 8 hours (Add pasta and escarole or spinach during the last hour of cooking and salt to taste, if necessary). | 8. Remove bay leaves. | 9. Top each serving with grated parmesan or romano cheese. | 10. Note: The meatballs must be prepared before being put into the crock pot (make them the night before and put them in the refrigerator, or even keep a batch in the freezer. I basically prepare as much as I can in advance so all I have to do is just put it all in the crock pot in the morning). | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
beef	1		ground lean	530.4012	0.0	104.5842	12.1947
egg	1		beaten	71.5	0.36	6.28	4.755
breadcrumb	1/4	cup		-	-	-	-
parsley	1/4	cup	chopped	5.4	0.9495	0.4455	0.1185
oregano	1	teaspoon		2.65	0.6892	0.09	0.0428
basil	1	teaspoon		0.2032	0.0234	0.0278	0.0057
salt	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
pepper	1/2	teaspoon		2.8865	0.7354	0.1195	0.0375
parmesan cheese	1/4	cup	grated	74.0	8.0	8.0	1.0
chicken stock	6	cups		518.4	50.832	36.288000000000004	17.28
chicken breast	1	cup	boneless cooked boiled chopped	-	-	-	-
onion	1/2	cup	chopped	32.0	7.472	0.88	0.08
carrot	1/2	cup	chopped	26.24	6.1312	0.5952	0.1536
celery	1/2	cup	chopped	8.08	1.4999	0.3484	0.0859
escarole	2	cups		57.0	9.21	3.45	0.54
bay leaf	2			-	-	-	-
garlic powder	1 1/2	1/2		15.3915	3.3819	0.7696	0.0339
black pepper	1/4	teaspoon	ground	2.8865	0.7354	0.1195	0.0375
pasta	1/4	cup		-	-	-	-
parmesan cheese				74.0	8.0	8.0	1.0

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.