Meat Ball Soup - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 lb. ground beef
1/4 c. chopped parsley
1 Tbsp. steak sauce
2 Tbsp. butter or margarine
1 envelope dry onion soup mix
1 c. chopped celery
1/2 c. uncooked rice
1 tsp. salt
1/4 c. water (for meat balls)
6 c. water (for soup)
1/2 c. grated raw carrot

Preparation

Mix ground beef lightly with parsley, salt, water and steak sauce in a bowl; shape into 36 small balls.
Brown in butter or margarine in a kettle; remove and set aside for next step; pour off drippings.
Heat 6 cups water to boiling; stir in soup mix, celery and rice.
Cover.
Cook 15 minutes; stir in carrots and meat balls.
Cook 5 minutes longer or until rice is tender. Ladle into soup bowls; garnish with parsley sprigs.