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Meatball and Stars Soup is for Soup.

Meatball and Stars Soup takes 20 minutes to prepare.

Meatball and Stars Soup takes 60 minutes to cook.

Meatball and Stars Soup makes 8 servings.

The ingredients for Meatball and Stars Soup are:

58 grams of soda crackers crushed to fine (about 20 crackers)

extra lean ground beef 554 grams

85 grams of Catelli Stars (uncooked, a single serving)

2 Egg Whites or 1/4c of egg substitute

minced garlic

basil

two boxes of ready to use Campbells Beef Broth (900ml/box)

two tins of tomato sauce or about 2.5 cups

Here is how you make Meatball and Stars Soup:

Makes 8 servings of 1 cup soup base and about 7 mini meatballs in each serving.First mix the crushed crackers, egg whites, minced garlic, 2tsp of the dried basil, and about half of the mini pasta stars into the extra lean ground beef. Blend this up really well. You can add some pepper too. Then roll the meat mixture into little meatballs. You should be able to make about 56 meatballs if you make them about 1 inch or use a tablespoon scoop.In a crock pot or large stock pot, pour both boxes of the beef broth. Add two tins of tomato sauce or 2.5 cups of sauce if you don't buy your sauce in cans. Bring this mixture to a boil. Gently add the meatballs (they will cook in the broth). In the last ten minutes or so of cooking you can add the remainder of the catelli star shape pasta or any other tiny pasta. Sprinkle the remainder of the basil to the top of the soup portions.Enjoy. (If you want you can add some frozen veggies if you like, just adjust for the calories and carb)Number of Servings: 8Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user STORMY40.

The nutritional information for Meatball and Stars Soup is:

• Servings Per Recipe: 8
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 271.2

• Total Fat: 12.9 g
• Cholesterol: 47.8 mg
• Sodium: 979.7 mg
• Total Carbs: 18.3 g
• Dietary Fiber: 1.9 g
• Protein: 20.1 g

The dietary needs meet for Meatball and Stars Soup is Low Carb