Best 8 Amish Rivel Soup Recipes

BAKED POTATO SOUP WITH RIVELS

Steps:

• Heat a skillet over medium heat. Add bacon and fry until crisp, 3 to 5 minutes. Pour bacon and grease into a large pot. Add potatoes, corn, celery, onion, carrot, and garlic. Pour in chicken broth and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover, and simmer until vegetables are tender, about 15 minutes.
• Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Add 3 tablespoons flour and whisk until smooth. Pour in milk, bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer until soup is thickened, about 2 minutes.
• Beat eggs in a bowl. Add 1 cup flour and stir with a fork until rivel dough is completely moistened.
• Mash the soup vegetables lightly in the pot. Add milk mixture. Stir to combine.
• Drop teaspoon-sized chunks of rivel dough into the soup a few at a time, stirring as you go to prevent them from sticking together. Cook over low heat until rivels are solid, about 15 minutes. Stir in Cheddar cheese, Swiss cheese, parsley, salt, and pepper.

RIVEL SOUP

Steps:

• In a small bowl, combine flour and salt. Cut in egg with a fork until crumbly., In a large saucepan, heat milk over medium heat until bubbles form around sides of pan. Gradually add flour mixture; bring to a gentle boil, stirring constantly. Cook and stir for 1-2 minutes or until rivels are cooked through. Sprinkle servings with parsley and pepper.

AMISH RIVEL SOUP

Steps:

• Combine flour, salt and beaten egg and mix with fingers until mixture is crumbly.
• Heat broth; add corn and bring back to a simmer. Drop rivels slowly into broth.
• Cook for about 10 minutes. Rivels will look like boiled rice when cooked.

RIVVEL SOUP

Steps:

• Bring the broth to a boil.
• In a bowl, mix flour, salt and eggs until you have a crummy mixture (not smooth, itíll make crumbs). Rub mixture between your fingers over the broth dropping small amounts in. These are called rivels. They should not be big, that is a dumpling. Maybe pea size.
• Add corn and cook about 10 - 15 minutes.

AMISH CHICKEN CORN SOUP

Steps:

• Place first 8 ingredients in a Dutch oven; bring slowly to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, until chicken is no longer pink and vegetables are tender, about 30 minutes. , Stir in noodles, corn and butter. Cook, uncovered, until noodles are tender, about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.

POTATO SOUP WITH RIVELS

Steps:

• Cover the bite-sized potato cubes with cold, salted water.
• Bring to a boil over high heat and then turn down the heat to a simmer and cook until done (about 15 minutes).
• Pour the flour into a bowl and form a well (indentation) in the center.
• Beat the eggs together and pour them into the flour well.
• Pinch the flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt and egg together and the mixture will start to separate in to ‘pellets’.
• Drop the pellets into the boiling cooked potatoes.
• Simmer an additional 10 minutes or until the rivels (formerly known as pellets) are cooked through.
• Add the milk to the soup and heat through (do not boil).
• Season to taste.

GRANDMA'S RIVELS

Steps:

• Bring broth to a boil while you make the rivels.
• To make rivels:
• Put flour and salt in a bowl.
• In a separate bowl, scramble eggs with a fork.
• Add eggs to flour/salt mixture and "rivel 'em up" (just stir around with a fork until mixture becomes crumbly).
• Drop by small handfuls into boiling broth.
• Boil for 15 minutes and enjoy!
• **If the broth isn't flavorful enough, add some chicken soup base.
• **You can pinch some of the dough together to get bigger "rivels".
• **You can also add cooked chicken to the soup.
• **Also works well with ham or beef broth.

HAM & BEAN SOUP WITH RIVELS

Steps:

• In a large pot (stock pot) a little more than half full of water, add 1 large chopped onion or less, 2 or 3 stalks of chopped celery and the ham hocks.
• Cook until ham hock is tender and celery is cooked down.
• Remove ham from bones, discard fat and return ham to pot.
• Add both cans of Great Northern beans.
• Bring to a boil.
• Turn heat down to medium and let it boil until the broth does not look watery, stirring often to prevent sticking (1-2 hours).
• Combine the flour, raw egg and salt in a small bowl.
• Stir together till crumbly with a fork.
• May have to use your fingers.
• Take parts of mixture and crumble over bean mixture in pot, with fingers, stirring a little after each.
• Dump any loose leftover flour from mixture into the beans to help thicken broth and then stir well.
• If you want more rivels, repeat the steps for making them.
• Lower heat to simmer, uncovered about 7 to 10 minutes.
• Stir occasionally to prevent sticking.
• Cover and cook 5 minutes more.