Your Passover Recipes

Here are two of my favorite Passover-related quotes:

"Let all who are hungry come and eat." 

 "On Passover, Jews eat history." (Israel Zangwill)

When it comes to the Passover meal, I myself am quite partial to charoset. We make it with apples, though Eli Zabar makes a mean (though pricey) Persian haroset with dried fruit as well.

What's your favorite part of the Passover meal?  Share your recipes, here!

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[Wendy Neufeld]

The Perfect, Quick, Matzo Ball.

Matzo balls often get a bad rap. In all fairness, there are some pretty bad matzo balls floating around, or, rather, sunk to the bottom of some stockpot. There is no good reason for this. Matzo balls should be light and fluffy, but more importantly, they should have flavor. It may be that because I wasn’t born into a matzo ball making tradition, that I had no problem questioning the status quo. So, I challenge you to make a better matzo ball. Here is my basic, quick recipe:

4 packets of Manishevitz matzo ball meal. (Or two boxes)
6 eggs
6 tablespoons of vegetable oil.
3 tablespoons of freshly chopped parsley (or dried, but fresh is always better)
2 tablespoons of freshly minced onion or 1/3 tablespoon of onion powder
Dash of garlic powder
¼ cup seltzer water (optional)

Lightly mix all the ingredients together, except the matzo meal. After ingredients are blended, mix in the matzo meal. Try not to over mix, the eggs don’t like that.

Refrigerate the Matzo mixture for at least 15 mins, but I prefer longer.

At this point, you should have your stock ready.

This is important; your stock should be in a very large pot. If you don’t have that much stock, you are going to want to boil your Matzo balls in a big pot of water. They expand, and they need room to do this.

After mixture is decently chilled, I wet my hands thoroughly before forming the balls. I keep my hands wet the entire time I form the balls.

Drop matzo balls into the boiling liquid. They need to cook for at least 40 mins.

These matzo balls are so good; you can eat them by themselves. Enjoy.