Kube - Delicious Beet Soup

This Soup is hearty with it's meat filled dumpling, and super lemony and sour...You can freeze the balls and put them in pretty much any broth, but this one is my favorite, enjoy!

meat:

1 pack of ground beef

1 large onion diced

1 cup of chopped cilantro

salt and pepper

1 tbsp chicken powder

3tbsp olive oil

2 tbsp paprika

1 tbsp cumin

dough

2½ cups of farina

⅓ cup bulgar

¼ cup olive oil
Pinch of salt

soup
1 tsp sugar

1 large onion diced

6 beets peeled, halved and sliced

5 garlic cloves crushed

1 bunch of cilantro chopped

4 stalks of celery chopped (leaves and stalk)

2 tbsp chicken powder

1 tbsp cumin

salt and pepper

2 tbsp paprika

juice of 3-5 lemons

Meat:

Heat olive oil and cook the meat with a few tbsp’s of water to help separate as it cooks. Keep stirring to break apart large chunks.

Once it has broken down and the water has dried out, add the rest of the ingredients and continue cooking on medium until everything is golden. Add a little more olive oil if necessary. Then let cool and you can refrigerate if you want to make this a day ahead.

Dough:

Mix the oil with the farina and stir. add the bulgar and mix. slowly and while mixing add the water until all the farina is moist and forms a doughy consistency. If there is excess water empty it out and let the mixture set for 10 minutes to absorb.

Soup:

Sauté the onion, garlic, cilantro, beets and celery in the olive oil for about 10 minutes. Then add the water and the spices and bring to a boil. Once boiling add the lemon and lower heat to simmer

Meanwhile to make the balls take about a tbsp of the dough, lay it flat on your hand and fill it with a spoon of the meat and fold it over to form a ball. Roll it in your hands to make sure the dough has sealed. set it aside and finish the rest. once you’ve rolled out all the balls you can either put them one by one into the BOILING broth or you can freeze them for another time.

Let the soup with the balls boil on high for about 8 minutes and then you can lower the heat to low and leave it for another 15-20 minutes and then serve