Matzo Ball Soup meets Egg Drop Soup is just the ultimate comfort food!
It’s almost the most magical time of the year! No, not Christmas, gentiles can keep their eggnog and gingerbread cookies. Okay, I’ll take one cookie. I mean national Eat Chinese Food and Watch a Movie Day. While this isn’t exactly a real holiday yet, give it a few years. It will catch on. Normally, we get takeout a settle in with Home Alone ( 1, 2 or 3. Not 4). But I like to experiment from time to time. Whole Foods gave me a $25 gift card to craft up some seasonal recipe using any of their kosher products. (And scroll down below to win a gift card of your own to experiment with!) I tried the Organic Imagine Kosher Chicken broth below and I was super impressed with the taste and texture- the closest to homemade I’ve ever seen! And perfect for my Egg Drop Matzo Ball Soup.
First, make your matzo balls. Whisk 1/2 cup of stock with eggs. Then whisk in matzo meal, onion, oil (or schmaltz!) salt and pepper. Since the dough will be sticky, refrigerate it for 30 minutes. These are some sinker matzo balls, but feel free to use your Bubbe’s recipe if you like!
When you are ready to cook, form matzo meal concoction into about 12 1-inch balls.
Now, make your soup. Whisk 1/2 cup chicken stock with cornstarch. Bring remaining 9 cups broth to a boil with soy sauce and half of the green onions. Gently place matzo balls in broth and lower to a simmer and cover. Cook 30 minutes until matzo balls are cooked through.
Bring heat back up to a boil and drizzle in the remaining eggs in stream slowly and stir them in to make streams. Then add in cornstarch mixture to thicken.
Season with salt and pepper to taste and garnish with more green onions and serve.
(You can buy this bowl here if you like it!)
Egg Drop Matzo Ball Soup
Ingredients
- 10 cups stock
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup matzo meal
- ¼ cup grated onion
- 3 tablespoons olive oil or schmaltz
- ¼ teaspoon salt plus more to taste
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper plus more to taste
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 2 teaspoons soy sauce
- 1 bunch green onions minced
- 4 eggs plus 2 egg yolks whisked
Instructions
- First, make your matzo balls. Whisk 1/2 cup of stock with eggs. Then whisk in matzo meal, onion, oil (or schmaltz!) salt and pepper. Since the dough will be sticky, refrigerate it for 30 minutes. These are some sinker matzo balls, but feel free to use your Bubbe’s recipe if you like!
- When you are ready to cook, form matzo meal concoction into about 12 1-inch balls. You can do mini balls if you like!
- Now, make your soup. Whisk together 1/2 cup chicken stock with cornstarch. Then bring remaining 9 cups broth to a boil with soy sauce and half of the green onions. Gently place matzo balls in broth and lower to a simmer and cover. Cook 30 minutes until matzo balls are cooked through.
- Bring heat back up to a boil and drizzle in the remaining eggs in stream slowly and stir them in to make streams. Then add in cornstarch mixture to thicken.
- Season with salt and pepper to taste and garnish with more green onions and serve.
I would totally make this soup with the gift card. This soup looks super delicious!!
Whole Foods has some of the most wonderful cheeses and great crackers…the gift card would afford me the opportunity to invite a few of my neighbors in my seniors only development over one afternoon for coffee/tea and a variety of cheese, crackers and my homemade pecan pie. Thank you for this opportunity.
I would love to make this soup! I would also make a great stir fry with the organic veggies at Whole Foods!
Loving the fusion! Loving the pics.
I’d love to make this soup, and I don’t need to buy anything! I’d use it for organic fruits that look soo good in the store, persimmons, satsumas, raspberries, blackberries, pomegranates… for sharing with holiday company!
That soup looks fantastic! I love that you combined matzo ball soup with egg drop.
Love the soup and thanks for the great giveaway!! I would love to make a soup like this with the gift card 🙂
I would make a baked brie with cranberry sauce.
I would get 365 products and organic produce for baking!
I would try to make this soup as well!
I would like to make your Potato Latkes Eggs Benedict. I never got around to making it for Thanksgivukkah.
This looks easy and delicious. I may even have some matzo ball mix left, making it even easier 🙂
I would want to make some yummy snacks for my book club
Lasagna with fresh mozz and garlic bread!
Amy – LOVE this idea and LOVE sinkers too!
Yay team sinker!
A ham!
Oy!
This looks like a great combo!
matza ball is serious comfort food for some. great recipe
Sprouted Spelt Bread would go awesome with this soup
I have made this soup, people love it at my Chinese Seder, but the best part is that I add ground beef to the matzah ball so it is more like a wonton or as I call it a Matzaton.
Genius idea, Tamar! I’ll try that next time.
I would totally make that soup – love egg drop and what’s not to love about a matzo ball? There is a rumor that we’re getting a Whole Foods RIGHT NEAR us! Until then, we have to make a bit of a drive to get to one. That would be so much nicer to have one here.
I would make my special quiche and use the card to get a roast turkey as well for the holidays! Thanks for the chance! 🙂
I would make beef vegetable soup.
I’d make a delicious fruit salad – Whole Foods has great produce and a lot of variety.
i would make vegetarian lasagna
I would make the matzo ball egg drop soup, for starters!
Turkey and mashed potatoes
I would make baked penne.
wow I hope I win
I would buy all the yummy treats in the store that I can not afford but are so healthy
I would love to win the gift card and buy some interesting veggies.
I would have to make this soup, it looks amazing!
I’d make a cheesy pasta dish with some imported cheeses from Whole Foods.
I would make a veggie pizza
I had the same idea!! But now that you actually created the recipe, I NEED to try this with the Whole Foods gift card 🙂
Ha great minds!
I would get product to try to make this soup. It looks really delicious. Thank you for the nice giveaway!
I would get a big salad from the salad bar and some of their amazing cookies!
I would buy the items to make a homemade pizza
I’ve ne’er been in a Whole Foods, but I’ve heard good things about it, and I am willing to try it.
A lot of gluten free goodies!
Love the kosher organic chicken broth too. I just saw on Facebook a sign in a Chinese restaurant thanking Jewish people for their Christmas day “tradition” very funny 🙂
HAHA love that!
this looks amazing and as a fellow jew i will so be trying this on dec.25 or national jews eat Chinese food day and go to the movies….
Best day of the year!