Recipe: Delicious Meatballs and Misua (Almondigas) Soup

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Meatballs and Misua (Almondigas) Soup. Misua are thin, salted Chinese noodles made from wheat flour and cook quickly. This soup dish is simple to make, delicious and considered a Filipino comfort food specially during rainy days. Some version adds patola or silk squash.

Meatballs and Misua (Almondigas) Soup Misua are thin, salted Chinese noodles made from wheat flour that cook quickly. If misua is not available, it can be substituted with. Filipinos love to eat almondigas soup, especially on rainy seasons, since it is very simple, economical and easy to make. You can have Meatballs and Misua (Almondigas) Soup using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Meatballs and Misua (Almondigas) Soup

  1. 🢂 5 cloves of garlic, chopped.
  2. 🢂 1/2 of onion, chopped.
  3. 🢂 2 tbsp of cooking oil.
  4. 🢂 15 pcs of frozen meatballs.
  5. 🢂 2 cups of frozen mixed vegetables.
  6. 🢂 1 of Beef boullion.
  7. 🢂 4 1/2 cups of water.
  8. 🢂 1 cup of misua.
  9. 🢂 1 cup of greens, chopped.
  10. 🢂 1/2 cup of mushrooms, sliced.
  11. 🢂 2 tbsp of malunggay flakes.
  12. 🢂 to taste of Salt and pepper,.

Some version adds patola or silk squash. You are free to add it if you like. On this recipe, I used lean ground beef but you can also use pork. Misua Soup is another simple noodle dish I grew up eating.

instructions Meatballs and Misua (Almondigas) Soup

  1. Heat oil in a pan. Saute garlic and onions until fragrant..
  2. Add frozen meatballs and cook for 5 minutes. Add frozen veggies and cook for another 5 minutes..
  3. Add water and let boil. Add boullion cube..
  4. Add mushrooms and misua. Cook for 5 minutes..
  5. Add salt and pepper to taste. Then greens and malunggay. Simmer for another 5 minutes and turn off heat. Serve hot..

Surprisingly, rice is present in the soup albeit in another form. Misua, fine rice noodles that originated in China, is added to the soup toward the end of cooking. Unlike Mexican albondigas, the broth of Filipino almondigas is clear because tomatoes are not included in the ingredients. Since I first heard of this recipe I thought it has almonds in it but I'm mistaken. This pork meatball and misua soup is a homey dish to come home to! by: Zee Castro-Talampas