Matzoh Ball Soup With Vegetables, Chickpeas and Herbs

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By Julia Turshen

This look delivers each the restitution of chickenhearted crockery with matzoh balls, minus the chicken. The instrumentality to the matzoh balls beneath is toasting the matzoh repast archetypal to springiness it much flavor. If you are celebrating Passover, enactment that kitniyot (which see legumes, beans and immoderate grains, specified arsenic rice) are present allowed for the vacation by immoderate communities, though this isn’t universally accepted, truthful beryllium definite to cheque with your guests.

From cookbook writer Julia Turshen.

Ingredients

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Servings: 8 (makes 14 cups crockery and 16 matzoh balls)

For the matzoh balls

1/4 cupful olive oil
1 cupful matzoh meal
1 spoon good salt, positive much arsenic needed
4 ample eggs
1/4 cupful chopped caller flat-leaf parsley (optional)
1/4 cupful seltzer

For the soup

2 tablespoons olive oil
1 ample yellowish bulb (12 ounces), finely chopped
2 ample carrots (4 ounces total), peeled and diced
2 celery stalks, diced
1 ample zucchini (10 ounces), ends trimmed, diced
Fine salt
Freshly crushed achromatic pepper
10 cups no-salt-added rootlike broth oregon vegetarian no-chicken broth (see Substitutions)
One (10-ounce) bundle frozen spinach, nary request to defrost
Two (15-ounce) cans no-salt-added chickpeas, rinsed and drained
1/2 cupful finely chopped caller flat-leaf parsley
1/2 cupful finely chopped caller dill
2 ail cloves, minced oregon finely grated

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (2 matzoh balls and 1 3/4 cups soup)

Calories
347
Fat
14 g
Saturated Fat
2 g
Carbohydrates
44 g
Sodium
509 mg
Cholesterol
93 mg
Protein
12 g
Fiber
7 g
Sugar
5 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From cookbook writer Julia Turshen.

Tested by Anna Luisa Rodriguez.

Published April 11, 2024

Updated March 17, 2026