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Dinner · 45 min · Amounts not specified

Matzo ball soup

Matzo meal would be right; a light flour-egg dumpling in chicken stock is Tuesday. Carrot, dill. They should float, not sink like stones. Don't boil them to glue.

The sheet · 4 bowls · 45 min

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Why tonight. Matzo meal would be right; a light flour-egg dumpling in chicken stock is Tuesday. Carrot, dill. They should float, not sink like stones. Don't boil them to glue.

What it needs

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  • eggs
  • flour
  • stock
  • carrot
  • dill

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: chicken.

Method

  1. Rest the matzo ball mixture in the fridge at least an hour. Unrested, they fall apart in the pot.
  2. Wet hands to shape them and handle them as little as possible — packed tight, they cook dense.
  3. Cook them in salted water in a separate pan, never in the soup, or they cloud the broth.
  4. A bare simmer with the lid on for thirty minutes. Do not lift the lid; they need the steam.

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eggs
The cheapest way to turn a side dish into dinner.
flour
Thickener and structure. Raw flour tastes like paste, so it wants a minute of cooking in fat before liquid arrives — that minute is the difference between a sauce and a lumpy disappointment.
stock
Body, not flavor — that is the part people get backwards.
carrot
Sweetness that survives long cooking, which is why it sits under so many braises.
dill
Grassy and slightly anise, and it belongs to cold food more than hot.

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