Here is the recipe...I suppose this thread should have gone in the recipe board. Oh well... I suppose you can use matzo balls in any kind of soup. I am just not sure about the soggy...oh well, I won't know unless I try it!
Here's how you make good matzo balls: Go to the store and buy Manischewitz matzo meal. It has a recipe on the back for matzo balls. It's easy, but here are a few hints: Beat the eggs before you mix them w. the meal and the salt. Instead of water, use club soda--- it makes the matzo balls lighter. If you want to do so, you can use chicken fat instead of vegetable fat in the recipe. You could also use chicken broth instead of club soda--- but I like the club soda. After cooking the matzo balls (you boil them in water) put them in chicken soup.
Here's how you make a good Jewish chicken soup:
Take 1 or 2 whole chickens--- remove the innards. Keep the neck. Put the chickens in cold water in a large pot and bring to a boil. Crud from the chickens will boil up to the surface (brown foam). Skim the water until you have removed all the brown foam--- a fairly lengthy process. Once you have clean boiling water w. chicken in it, add carrots (I like to use baby carrots), parsley, garlic powder, an onion or two cut into quarters, and a parsnip (white carrot). cook the chickens until tender--- meat falling off the bone. Remove the chickens and take the skin off, remove the bones, and return the chicken to the water. Add some bouillion to give it a stronger flavor and to provide the saltiness. I use powdered bouillion but you can use cubes. If you don't add bouillion, the soup will be insipid--- not very flavorful. Boil/simmer for a couple of hours.
Cool and put in the refrig overnight. Skim the fat off the surface the next day. You have nice low calorie. low fat, high protein chicken soup. You can use the fat for the matzo balls, or you can buy chicken fat for the matzo balls, or you can use vegetable oil, which is what I do.
Add the matzo balls to the soup a couple of hours before serving. Simmer so that the matzo balls take on the flavor of the soup.
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Have a blessed day! Rachel
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