Truffled, Shiitake Matzo Ball Soup

Recipe courtesy Wayne Harley Brachman

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Total Time:
2 hr 10 min
Prep
1 hr 40 min
Cook
30 min
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Ingredients

  • 3 tablespoons rendered chicken fat, melted (schmaltz)
  • 1/4 cup chicken stock, plus 2 quarts chicken stock
  • 1 tablespoon truffle oil
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 4 large eggs
  • 1 cup matzoh meal
  • Shiitake gribenes, recipe follows

Directions

Mix together schmaltz, stock, truffle oil, salt, and eggs. Thoroughly mix in matzo meal. Refrigerate for 1 hour. Form into golf balls and stuff with a teaspoon of shiitake gribenes in the center, and cook, covered, in 2 quarts of boiling chicken stock for 20 minutes until light as a feather but also heavy as a cannon ball.

You may substitute duck or goose schmaltz (not ortelon schmaltz, it's too bony) You can use a little more salt, but it's not good for you.

Shiitake Gribenes:

  • Skin from 4 chicken thighs
  • 1 large onion, chopped in large chunks
  • 2 cloves garlic coarsely chopped
  • 2 ounces shiitake mushrooms, cut in chunks
  • Salt and pepper

Saute chicken skin until fat exudes and lightly golden. Saute onion until deep golden brown. Add garlic and saute for 2 minutes. Strain to separate solids from oil and reserve both. Saute mushrooms in 1 tablespoon of the oil in the pan until wilted.

Remove shiitakes and reserve for the matzoh balls. Nosh on the gribenes, shmeared on rye bread.

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  • on December 03, 2011

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    The soup is simple and the matzo balls authentic. The recipe suggests to "stuff" the matzo balls with the shitake material. Provided you enjoy mushrooms, follow the recipe and be happy!

    IF you replace the mushroom mixture with a small cube of preferred cheese...another delicious taste.

    Enjoy!

    Annie , Fremont , CA

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