Beef soup with savory garnishes

Ingredients for 6 servings:

• 500 g beef broth (with or without bones, as desired)
• 1 bunch of soup vegetables (I also use 1-2 parsley roots)
• 3 cubes of stock, fat
• 1 pack of Maultaschen (preferably mini Maultaschen)
• 1 can of egg custard
• 5 tbsp, heaped soup noodles, small
• n. B. Dumplings (semolina dumplings), 1/2 – 1 pack.
• e.g. leaf parsley
• Maggi
• 2 bay leaves
• 2 allspice berries
• salt and pepper

Instructions

Working time approx. 20 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 1 hour 30 minutes; Total time approx. 1 hour 50 minutes

spicy and tasty

Clean and peel the soup vegetables and parsley roots, and chop them into large pieces or leave them whole, depending on your preference. If there are a lot of leeks in the soup vegetables, feel free to discard 1-2 leeks; you don’t need a lot. Place the meat, prepared vegetables, stock cubes, bay leaves, allspice berries, 1-2 teaspoons of salt, a generous amount of pepper (or 1-2 whole peppercorns if you have any at home), and a little Maggi in a large pot and add enough water to cover everything. Cook in a pressure cooker for about 45 minutes to 1 hour. If you don’t have one, you can also cook in a regular pot. This will take considerably longer (at least 1.5 hours, or until the meat starts to fall apart). Pour the broth through a sieve into a second, equally large pot and let the contents of the sieve cool slightly. In the meantime, cut the egg custard into small to medium cubes and clean and chop the flat-leaf parsley. Remove the meat and 1 carrot from the sieve. Either chop the falling apart meat or tear it into large pieces and return it to the broth. Cut the carrot into cubes but leave it in the pan for now and do not add it to the broth. Season the broth again with salt, pepper, Maggi and other spices, or thin it with water if necessary. Now add the Maultaschen (swabian pasta), egg custard, soup noodles and semolina dumplings to the broth. We usually add everything at once and simmer the soup for about 5-10 minutes, then let it stand for another 10-15 minutes without boiling. Finally, add the diced carrot and serve sprinkled with chopped parsley. Any variation that tastes good is allowed. If you like, you can add marrow dumplings, for example.