Swabian Ravioli Soup

Swabian Maultaschen Soup in Hearty Beef Broth

The Maultaschen soup from Manufaktur U is a Swabian specialty containing four small dumplings filled with beef, pork, spinach, and parsley, served in a hearty beef broth. This is no soggy convenience soup, but a ready-to-serve soup from a small, carefully selected producer.

Maultaschensuppe at Manufaktur U represents the Swabian answer to the classic meat dumpling: fine dough, filled with a mixture of beef and pork, spinach, and parsley, swimming in a homemade-style broth made from beef bones and vegetables. Each 400 ml can contains four small dumplings, ready for you to heat up.

Heartily filled and mild in broth

The aroma as you warm it up is reminiscent of Sunday kitchens: warm beef broth, a hint of parsley, and the slightly earthy note of spinach. The light filling shimmers through the thin dough even before the first spoonful hits the broth.

The dumplings themselves are mild and juicy, with a subtle meaty flavor that tastes of neither beef nor pork alone, but of both together. Hearty, mild, aromatic—the broth remains clear, letting the dumplings take center stage rather than overpowering them.

If you serve the soup at around 75 degrees, the dough won't fall apart but will remain firm to the bite, while the filling inside remains warm and juicy, almost as if the dumplings had just been sealed by hand. A sprinkle of chives on top and the soup seems as if it came straight from a Swabian kitchen.

Swabian satisfaction in just a few minutes

Pour the contents of the can carefully into a pot so that the dumplings stay whole while heating; it takes a good 5 minutes over low, steady heat until the soup is gently steaming.

Some roasted onions on top are almost mandatory in Swabia, and a pinch of parsley adds freshness. The 400 ml is enough as a starter for two or a small main course for one, especially on days when you don't feel like putting in much effort in the kitchen.

Those looking to try more from the range will find the clear Festive Beef Soup and the creamy Potato Soup with Bacon among the soups from Manufaktur U, both made from the same slow-cooked bone broth. Unopened, the can will keep for up to 2 years without needing a refrigerator.

Hand-filled instead of machine-pressed

There is no industrial kitchen behind this Maultaschen soup—and certainly not our own: it is cooked for us by a small producer that Kerstin and Stephan Uhlenbusch selected for the Manufaktur U brand because they still cook with patience rather than pressing dumplings on an assembly line.

The dough and filling are prepared by hand with ingredients like beef, pork, and spinach, before the dumplings are individually filled and sealed and then poached in the slow-cooked bone broth—the production is EC-certified artisanal manufacturing. The soup is naturally so flavorful that it requires no flavor enhancers at all.

Our shop now carries ten soups from the Manufaktur U range, from this Maultaschen soup to the Cream of Game Soup with Venison Dumplings—each one prepared by hand before being cooked in small batches. You can taste the difference with the very first spoonful, long before the can is empty.