Best Easy Matzo Balls Chicken Soup Recipe
What is a Passover Seder table worth without some traditional Jewish matzo ball chicken soup?
Matzo balls (or matzo Kleis if you’re Yiddish) is what many people consider their favorite Kosher for Passover meal.
It’s kind of “expected” during Passover:
- Your kids probably expect it. Because what else will they eat when they can’t eat their favorite Chometz food for a week?
- Your guests definitely expect it, especially since they probably brought you some great Passover gifts.
So if you’re going to cook this Passover, there’s no way I’m going to let you skip Matzo balls this Pesach.
Note: Then we’ll focus on other recipes like a traditional Passover brisket… But Matzo balls come first!
Don’t worry if you’re not sure how to make Matzo ball soup yet, soon enough you’ll be making it from scratch and you’ll discover how easy it is.
Let’s get cooking.
- 4 eggs
- 4 tbsp rendered chicken fat Schmaltz, vegetable oil or olive oil all work fine
- 4 cups chicken broth gluten free
- 1 cup matzo meal
- 3 large carrots
- 1/2 onion
- 1/4 cup parsley
- 1 tsp ginger
- 1 tsp salt kosher
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp black pepper
- Pour the eggs and chicken fat into a small bowl and whisk properly
- While whisking, add the matzo meal, onions, salt, pepper, ginger, parsley and baking powder and continue stirring until fully blended
- Cool the mix in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour Note:If you want fluffy matzo balls, cool them for at least 3 hours
- Boil a large saucepan of chicken broth
- Form balls from the dough. How do you make dough balls? Fill 2 tablespoons per ball, and drop them into the boiling chicken broth soup Note:if you want your matzo balls to be fluffy, then make the balls smaller. 1 tablespoon should be enough
- Add in the carrots, and boil the matzo ball soup mix for about 40 minutes, until the matzo balls are soft
- Serve in soup bowls as soup, as “standalone” matzo balls or with a stew
- Matzo balls are usually served 2-3 per person
- The matzo balls can be taken out and served without soup or with a stew
Summary
You just made your authentic matzo ball chicken soup from scratch! Congratulations!
See how easy that was?
Thanks to you, everyone will get to taste your delicious matzo balls and forget all about their cravings for bread.
Now go celebrate with some Matzah & Charoset (save your Matzo balls for your guests).
Happy Pesach 🙂
