A balanced meal on a busy night

A vegetable soup that can be served as a full meal. Ingredients: 2 potatoes, 2 celery stalks, 1 carrot, 1 cup of broccoli flowers, 1/2 of yellow onion, 10 store-bought meat balls, 1 tsp of granulated soup stock, 1 tsp fish sauce and 4 cups of low salt chicken broth. Except for broccoli flowers, cut all other vegetables into cubes. Cover potato, celery, and carrot with wet paper towels and place them in a plastic bag. Cook them in the microwave for 3 minutes. Cut the meat ball in half before add them into the chicken broth and and bring it to boil. Slowly drop the cooked vegetables from microwave, onions and broccoli flowers into the boiling broth. Cook everything for a few more minutes before add in the granulated soup stock and fish sauce. Place the soup in a big bowl before add chopped green onions and cilantro on top.

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