Chicken Soup & Matzo Balls. There’s no meal more soothing, warming, and filling than homemade matzo balls and real chicken soup.
Chicken Soup & Matzo Balls
Originally matzo balls were made for the Passover table in Jewish tradition. But today they are served in many restaurants and homes throughout the world and at any time of year. They make for a small meal and can be kept in the refrigerator for a number of days or frozen if a large quantity is made.
Ready to serve chicken soup and instant matzo ball mixture in a box is easily obtainable, easy to prepare, and always successful. Brands such as Manischewitz and Streits are famous for matzo meal mix.
However, starting from scratch to produce both the soup and matzo balls result in a deeply flavorful, satisfying dish – perfect for winter or to soothe and calm a patient feeling under the weather. Below are the recipes for both.
Ingredients
Use chicken breasts or 1/2 whole chicken with its bones. It makes it more flavorful.
Carrots and an onion for flavor with chicken stock powder.
How to
You would start of with boiling the chicken with the above ingredients for 45 minutes.
Then take it out the pot and cut into pieces and replace it back into the soup water.
Making the homemade matzo balls according to the recipe below.
Not that hard. This is the secret to making homemade matzo balls.
Once they are rolled out, (see recipe directions). place them in the boiling soup mixture and let them cook then dunking them once to make sure they are cooked.
Bon Appetit. This meal could be eaten immediately warm for lunch or supper. Or kept in the fridge for a few days.
The flavor intensifies each day, so one can prepare the soup and matzo balls a day or two before an entertainment date.
This Soup can be frozen and defrosted with great success for the future.
Making this recipe from scratch and homemade results both the soup and matzo balls for a deeply flavorful, satisfying dish – perfect for winter or to soothe and calm a patient feeling under the weather. Below are the recipes for both.
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PrintChicken Soup and Matzo Balls
Chicken Soup and Matzo Balls. There’s no meal more soothing, warming, and filling than homemade matzo balls and real chicken soup.
- Prep Time: 35 min
- Cook Time: 60 min
- Total Time: 95 min
- Yield: 8
- Category: Meals supper or lunch, soups
- Method: Stove top No Bake
Ingredients
- 3 Chicken breasts or 1/2 whole chicken (including bones)
- 3 Carrots
- 1 large onions
- 8 teaspoons of chicken broth powder
- 2 1/2 liters of water
- Matzo balls ingredients
- 3 cups of matzo meal
- 5 Cups of boiling water
- 1/2 cup of olive oil
- 1 egg
Instructions
- In a large pot place your chicken, carrots and onion and chicken powder fill with water and boil. Continue to remove the white scum from the top of the pot while it simmers for 3/4 of an hour. Until soft and cooked.
- Remove the chicken from the pot and cut into small pieces. (if you boiled 1/2 whole chicken then debone it and cut up the chicken pieces ) replace the chicken into the pot of soup.
- The soup is now ready for the matzo balls.
- Homemade Matzo balls
- Boil the water in a pot.
- In another large bowl place the matzo meal.
- Add the boiling water and mix well. Then add the oil and mix. Followed by adding the egg then mixing all the ingredients well.
- Place the mixture in the fridge for about 15 minutes
- After the wait roll the matzo mixture out and roll them into balls. (1 – 1 1/2 inch diameter)
- If the mixture is sticky wet your hands in some water so that the balls can be rolled out easily.
- Now reheat the soup to boiling point and drop the balls into the soups mixture
- Boil the matzo balls in the soup for about 20 minutes, but at first take down the temperature for the first 5 minutes to prevent the boiling over of the soup.
- Place the lid on the pot but leave a gap for the steam to escape.
- During cooking dunk the matzo balls once into the soup mixture so they cook evenly. As the will float on top.
- Bon Appetit. This meal can be eaten immediately or kept in the fridge for a few days. The flavor intensifies each day, so one can prepare the soup and matzo balls a day or two before an entertainment date. It can also be frozen and defrosted with great success.
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