Source : In A Large Bowl Combine Meatball Ingredients And Form Your Mini Meatballs Place Your Meatballs On A Baking Sheet And Cook In Oven 400f For 20 Min Me...
PreTime
more Minutes
CookTime
a few Minutes
Yield
Some Servings
Sent by Kellie Ro
at : September 27, 2025
Step:
In a large bowl, combine meatball ingredients, and form your mini Meatballs.
Place your meatballs on a baking sheet and cook in oven @ 400F for 20 min.
Meanwhile, heat olive oil in a large soup pot and add your onion, garlic, carrot, dried herbs and salt and pepper. Cook until onion is translucent.
Add your white wine and cook for another 2 min.
Add your chicken broth then allow the liquid to come to a boil. Once it's boiling, add your pastini.
When the pastini is about 1/2 way cooked, add your meatballs to the pot and cook until the pasta is about 90% cooked.
Finally, add your chopped fresh spinach and juice of half a lemon. (It looks like a lot of spinach at first, but it'll cook down)
Allow everything to cook throughly (mainly the pasta)
Serve with fresh parmesan shavings (sadly I didn't have any today) and some crusty Italian bread along side.
Ingredients
8 cup chicken broth (low sodium)
1/4 cup white wine
1 onion, diced
4 clove garlic, minced
1 tsp Italian seasoning
salt and pepper
1 tbsp olive oil, extra virgin
1 1/2 tsp dried basil
1/2 tsp dried oregano
1 carrot, diced small
1 1/4 cup Orzo pasta (or any other pastini *small pasta*)
1/2 fresh lemon, juice squeezed
1 1/2 cup roughly chopped fresh spinach (or 2 cups, depending on how much you love spinach) lol
Mini Meatballs
1 lb ground beef
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 slice white bread (crust removed) and torn into little pieces