Matzo Stuffing Recipes

Steps:

• Crush matzah.
• Saute' onions in oil till transparent.
• Add carrots and apples and cook till the are softened.
• Add remaining ingredients.
• Mix together and taste for seasoning.
• If too dry you can moisten with a bit more broth or water.
• Stuff turkey loosely.
• Any leftover stuffing can be cooked along-side turkey in foil or in a casserole dish.
• When basting turkey, add some of the juices to any stuffing cooked outside the bird.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325. Grease pan.
• Cover farfel with hot water, let stand a while covered.
• Mash water out in colander with tablespoon. Beat the eggs. Saute the onions and celery in oil or chicken fat. Drain the grease.
• Season to taste. Grate carrot on large holes of grater. Mix all ingredients, adding eggs last.
• Put in pan or bird. Cook for an hour and twenty minutes or until done, checking at about an hour.

Steps:

• Make the matzo balls:
• In a medium bowl, combine the matzo meal, oil, salt, pepper, and nigella seeds. Add 1 cup boiling water and mix well to incorporate. Add the egg, incorporating quickly to avoid partially cooking it. Using wet hands, form the dough into 12 equal-size disks and reserve.
• In a medium bowl, combine the chicken, fennel, orgeat or almond extract, salt, and pepper. Using wet hands, form the mixture into 12 equal-size balls. Place a ball of filling on a matzo-meal disk and pinch and roll the edges together to form a ball. Repeat with remaining filling and matzo-meal disks.
• Cook the matzo balls:
• Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Gently add the stuffed matzo balls, reduce heat, cover, and simmer until matzo balls are cooked through and float, 20 to 25 minutes.
• Cook the apples:
• In a medium saucepan over medium-high heat, heat the oil. Add the apples and sauté until slightly softened, about 5 minutes. Add the Calvados and stir, scraping up any bits on the bottom of the pan, until most of the Calvados has evaporated, about 2 minutes. Remove apples from pan and reserve.
• Assemble the soup:
• In a pot, heat the broth until just simmering. Divide the apples among four soup bowls, then ladle broth and matzo balls into each bowl. Garnish with nigella seeds before serving.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400ºF.
• Remove the giblets from the chicken cavity. Warm 2 tablespoons of the oil in a small sauté pan over medium-high heat. Add the gizzard and heart and sear well on all sides. Add the liver and cook, turning as needed, for a few minutes longer. Transfer the giblets to a cutting board and chop finely.
• In a bowl, combine the matzo meal, 1/2 to 2/3 cup wine, the eggs, the walnuts, the currants, and the giblets. Add the remaining 2 tablespoons oil, season with salt and pepper, and mix well
• Spoon the stuffing into the chicken cavity loosely and sew or skewer closed. Reserve any extra stuffing. Rub the chicken liberally with oil and the lemon juice and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Place on a rack in a roasting​ pan.
• Roast the chicken, basting occasionally with the remaining wine and with the pan drippings, until the juices run clear when a thigh is pierced with a knife, about 1 1/2 hours. If you have stuffing that did not fit into the bird, put it in the roasting pan for the last 15 minutes of roasting, where it will cook and take on color.
• Transfer the chicken to a serving platter and let rest for about 10 minutes. Scoop out the stuffing into a serving bowl and carve the chicken.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Saute onions in butter or olive oil on medium-low heat until translucent (about 5-6 minutes).
• Add mushrooms, saute until mushrooms soften a bit (about 3-4 minutes). Mix in turmeric and cumin. Saute a few more minutes until mushrooms look totally soft.
• Pour farfel into a large bowl. Toss in mushroom mixture with farfel. Add salt, fresh oregano and enough broth to moisten farfel, but not enough to make too soggy.
• Put entire mixture into a loaf pan . Bake for about 15 minutes in oven, turn heat to broil, then set under broiler for about 1-2 minutes to let top brown a bit (but watch carefully so you don't burn to top).

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F with rack in middle.
• Heat 3 tablespoons oil in a large heavy skillet over medium-high heat until oil shimmers. Sauté mushrooms with 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper until the liquid they give off has evaporated and mushrooms are browned, about 10 minutes. Transfer to a large bowl.
• Add remaining oil to skillet, reduce heat to medium, and cook onion, fennel, and celery with 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper until softened and golden, about 15 minutes. Transfer to bowl with mushrooms.
• Grease baking dish with olive oil. Spoon mixture evenly into dish, cover with foil and bake until set, 25 to 30 minutes. For a top with some crisp and browned edges, uncover and continue to bake about 5 minutes more.
• Rinse Matzoh in a colander under hot running water until just softened, 15 to 30 seconds. Drain well. Add to vegetables with eggs, parsley, 3/4 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon pepper and stir gently until combined. • Grease baking dish with olive oil. Spoon mixture evenly into dish, cover with foil and bake until set, 25 to 30 minutes. For a top with some crisp and browned edges, uncover and continue to bake about 5 minutes more.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425°F with racks in upper and lower thirds.
• Cook onion and bell pepper in 3 tablespoons oil in a 12-inch heavy skillet over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until softened and golden, about 15 minutes. Add garlic and cook, stirring frequently, 2 minutes.
• While onion mixture cooks, rinse matzo farfel in a colander under warm running water until softened, 30 seconds to 1 minute. Drain, pressing gently to extract excess water.
• Remove onion mixture from heat and stir in farfel, pistachios, raisins, parsley, 3/4 teaspoon salt, and 1/2 teaspoon pepper. Whisk together eggs and 3/4 cup broth, then stir into farfel mixture.
• Set aside 1 1/2 cups stuffing and transfer remainder to a generously oiled 1 1/2-quart shallow baking dish.
• Bake stuffing in dish in lower third of oven until set and golden, about 30 minutes.
• While stuffing bakes, stir together spices with 1 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon pepper in a large bowl.
• Insert a paring knife horizontally into middle of thicker end of each chicken breast half, stopping about 1 inch from opposite end, then open incision with your finger to create a 1-inch-wide pocket. Pack 3 tablespoons stuffing into each pocket. Pat chicken dry and add to spices, tossing to coat.
• Straddle a large flameproof roasting pan across 2 burners, then add remaining 3 tablespoons oil and heat over medium-high heat until it shimmers. Sear chicken, skin side down, until skin is deep golden, about 5 minutes. Turn chicken over, then roast in upper third of oven until just cooked through, 16 to 20 minutes.
• Transfer chicken to a platter and straddle roasting pan across 2 burners, then add wine and deglaze by boiling, stirring and scraping up brown bits, 1 minute. Stir in 3/4 cup broth. Whisk together remaining 1/4 cup broth and potato starch and whisk into sauce, then cook, whisking, until slightly thickened, about 2 minutes. Strain sauce through a fine-mesh sieve into a measuring cup. Let stand until fat rises to top, 1 to 2 minutes, then skim off and discard fat (or use a fat separator). Season sauce with salt.

Steps:

• Saute mushrooms in grape juice.
• add onion, celery, and suate until onions are softened. Add farfel. Combine seasing, eggs, & soup into farfel mixture. Add boiling water and set aside until liquid is absorbed. Place in a lightly greased pan. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes.

Steps:

• Saute all of the vegetables in oil. Combine farfel and soup and stir. Add eggs. Stir. Add all other ingredients. Place in a 13 X 11" Pammed pan. Cook for 1 hour, uncovered.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Melt fat in a medium skillet over medium-high heat. Add onion and celery; cook 8 minutes. Let cool. Whisk together eggs, broth, 1 1/4 cups hot water, spices, and salt. Stir in farfel and onion mixture. Spoon into 10 (1/2-cup) ramekins. Bake until set, 30 to 35 minutes.

Steps:

• In large, nonstick skillet, over medium-high heat, toast walnuts, shaking often, until lightly golden and fragrant, about 4 minutes. Transfer to large bowl.
• Add 1 tablespoon of the margarine to skillet; when melted, add half of the matzo. Cook 2 to 3 minutes, stirring constantly, until matzo is lightly toasted; add to walnuts. Repeat with 1 tablespoon of the margarine and remaining matzo pieces.
• Wipe out skillet; add remaining margarine. Heat; add onions, carrots and celery; cook 5 minutes, until crisp-tender. Add garlic, thyme, salt and pepper; cook 1 minute. Add mushrooms; cook 4 minutes, until tender. Stir into matzo mixture. Let cool; stir in parsley and eggs. Stuff into Roast Capon recipe #.

Steps:

• Make stuffing:
• Cook onions, carrots, and celery in oil in a wide 3 1/2- to 5-quart heavy pot over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, until vegetables begin to brown, 8 to 10 minutes.
• While vegetables are cooking, put matzos in a colander and run under hot water until softened.
• Remove pot from heat and transfer half of vegetables to a bowl. Cool vegetables in bowl 5 minutes, then stir in matzos, parsley, egg, salt, and pepper.
• Prepare veal while stuffing cools:
• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Trim as much excess fat as possible from veal. Cut a large pocket in veal breast: Beginning at center of thickest side, insert a large knife horizontally and cut into center of veal as evenly as possible, leaving a 1-inch border on 3 sides.
• Purée onion, garlic, oil, paprika, salt, and pepper in a food processor or blender. Put veal breast on a cutting board and rub inside of pocket with 2 tablespoons purée. Fill pocket loosely with matzo stuffing, leaving a 1-inch border on cut side. Sew pocket closed with carpet needle and kitchen string.
• Pat veal dry and rub both sides with remaining purée. Put thyme sprigs over vegetables remaining in pot, then top with veal. Add water and bring to a boil.
• Cover pot with lid and braise in middle of oven until meat is very tender, 3 to 3 1/2 hours. Transfer veal with a wide metal spatula to a clean cutting board and let stand, loosely covered with foil, 30 minutes.
• Discard thyme sprigs and skim any fat from sauce. Discard string, then cut veal across the grain into 1-inch-thick slices and serve with sauce.