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How to Make a Classic Matzo Ball Soup



Matzo ball soup is Jewish comfort food at its finest. Cara Nicoletti is in the MUNCHIES Test Kitchen to offer her version of the legendary dish, which features a full chicken, veggies, homemade broth and matzo balls, made with delicious schmaltz. This recipe is so good it might just rival your grandma’s!

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36 Comments

  2. Rambalambalambada Man

    2:24 reminds me of Homer watching the "Half Assed Guide To Home Repair"
    Troy: "If you can't FIND metal stucco lath"
    Homer in hopeful desperation: "Uh-huh"
    Troy: " Use REGULAR stucco lath"
    DOH

    For us no-Jews, non-Americans, non-Jewish Americans, explaining what Matzo is would have helped

  5. Quiet

    I do it very similarly. One thing I add (because I cheat) is a packet of ramen seasoning. Really cheap, but good. Multiple flavors seem to work. I use chicken.

  6. MrAngryJarvey

    So I feel bad. Im the Religious Jewish Uncle….. I make my sister and her neices Matzos Ball Soup from a box. They love it, and think its a special occasion, but – this is totally better. Way to make my seder even harder!

  8. MariaAngelika Escobar

    I'll try to make this for my friend. He loves our chicken soup (Hispanic style) but this year he wants to have one of those dinners he used to have with his parents( Matzoh ball soup), when he was little. I'll try my best.

  11. Fish Mommy18

    I liked your video way more than any other. Thank you for sharing this greatness. I always been curious to know what it's like. I'm going to try it. 🤗 I'm Christian so it's going to turn me into a Jew lol, just playing. Thank you again. 😊

  13. Alex Mint

    My gramma used to make this for me as a kit, but every time I've tried to make it, my dumplings have fallen apart. This is helpful.

  14. brett knoss

    Never heard of braising with ginger ale, but Indian meat is often cooked using ginger with garlic.

  15. Andrew X

    Yum. Can I come by for a bowl?? yiddish schmaltz actually means chicken fat. Never knew that. Thanks.

  24. nanioushka

    I made this today (minus the dill and celery cause I dont like their taste) and it was soooo yummy!!

  28. Stephen Early

    Great video. Really wish there was a link to the written recipe somewhere. Can’t find one unless I’m just blatantly missing it?

  31. Ae

    What I do for schmalz is make flavorful soup concentrate and then I add vegan butter/coconut oil or a combination. Then I refrigerate and the solid fat forms back on top with all the flavor from the soup concentrate and then dilute the rest back into soup. I live to go as far as to make clarified stock with sea moss. If you use silken tofu instead of egg and add this type of shmalz instead of regular schmalz it turns out amazing. I used to eat at a deli in NY with these amazing old posters of matzo ball soup and I didn’t have it often it didn’t become a favorite dish of mine until later on. Now I make it pretty often I just did the other day.

  32. D. Pharmbot

    Honestly, I want to use that schmaltz for chicken 🐔 liver pate–which I haaaated till I was 30, but oh well.

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