Easy Matzo Ball Soup Recipe Anyone Can Make (2024)

FAQs

What is matzo ball mix made of? ›

While each family has its own recipe, all matzo balls are made of three key components: matzo meal, fat, and eggs. Matzo meal simply refers to matzo crackers that are ground up into a fine meal. You can also find matzo ball mix in most supermarkets; it consists of matzo meal, spices, and preservatives.

This easy Matzo Ball Soup features tender poached matzo balls floating in a bowl of warm soup made from chicken stock and carrots.

Matzo Meal Substitutes

One acceptable substitute is almond flour. During any other time of year, crushed crackers such as saltines or oyster crackers and any breadcrumbs, including panko, can be used.

MATZAH BALL HINTS:

* Unless otherwise stated, cover the matzah balls as they simmer. DON'T PEEK! Somehow, peeking causes the matzah balls to fall. * Add some of your favorite herbs or spices to any of these recipes.

Add to that the benefits of vitamins A, C, and D in the broth, the anti-inflammatory properties of the soup vegetables, and a boost of energy from the carbohydrates in the matzo balls, and you've got a recipe for feeling better!

Get schmaltzy: Schmaltz, or rendered chicken fat, is like gold. And you deserve nothing but the best. The flavor and texture that schmaltz gives a matzo ball is nothing that vegetable oil can really compare to, which is why if you can get it (or make it!), use the good stuff.

We give you the choice: Using schmaltz (rendered chicken fat) produces the most flavorful matzo balls, while vegetable or canola oil offer convenience.

Almond flour is the original matzo meal alternative, however, and it is also my favorite. Sephardic cuisine includes a variety of baked goods based on finely ground almonds and eggs - including marunchinos, which are the more delicate precursor to today's macaroons.

The Passover meal, known as a Seder, is all about remembering Jewish history. Much of the food is deeply symbolic. Matzo represents the unleavened bread the Jews ate while fleeing Egypt, for example, and horseradish is a symbol for the bitterness of slavery.

Floaters vs. Sinkers. There is a great matzah ball debate – some people prefer airy, softy and fluffy matzo balls that bob on the surface while they cook, “floaters;” some prefer dense, richer ones with a toothsome quality that sink to the bottom of the pot, “sinkers.”

Why aren't my matzo balls fluffy? ›

If they still seem dense or tight, they haven't cooked long enough. The should look soft and airy. Test for doneness by slicing a test matzo ball in half.

Expiration date on bottom of box. If less than 9 months on your shelf, should be ok.

Matzah is typically made from wheat flour and made in a way that ensures it is unleavened.

Matzo is itself typically made of wheat flour mixed with some water, and salt and sometimes olive oil for flavor. It's rolled very thinly and baked quickly at a high temperature. Talmudic tradition dictates that matzo should be completed in under 18 minutes, from mixing the dough to fully baked.

Matzo meal is ground matzo. It's slightly coarse, like the texture of breadcrumbs, and is essential to making matzo balls. Matzo ball mix is basically seasoned matzo meal. Matzo cake meal is finely ground matzo and has a similar consistency to flour.

This made me think that perhaps it's not a widely known fact that matzo meal is simply ground up matzo – a breadcrumbs substitute over the holiday. So, if you find yourself in need of matzo meal and only boxes of matzo lying around, just grind them up – and voila! Matzo meal in mere seconds. Matzo Meal.