chicken meatball soup with watercress

Ingredients For chicken meatball soup with watercress

• 1 lb

  ground chicken
• 1 md

  red onion, roughly chopped
• 2 clove

  garlic, roughly chopped
• 1/4 c

  fresh chopped dill
• 1 Tbsp

  olive oil, extra virgin
• 2 tsp

  salt
• 1/2 tsp

  chili flakes
• 1/2 c

  breadcrumbs soaked in 1/4 cup milk
• fresh ground pepper
• SOUP
• 2

  carrots , finely chopped
• 2

  celery stocks,finely chopped
• 1

  leek,finely chopped
• 8 c

  chicken stock, homemade or bought.....my recipe for stock below
• 4 c

  watercress
• CHICKEN STOCK:
• 3 Tbsp

  olive oil
• bones of 1 chicken...i used 3 chicken backs i had in freezer
• 2 lg

  carrots, peeled and chopped
• 2

  celery stalks , chopped
• 2 md

  onions, chopped
• 1

  leek, chopped
• 1

  bulb of garlic....not cloves...the whole bulb, peeled & chopped
• 1/2 c

  fresh dill
• 1/4 c

  fresh parsley
• 3

  sprigs fresh thyme
• 1 Tbsp

  peppercorns
• 24 c

  water
• salt & pepper totaste