This gluten-free Matzo Ball Soup recipe is a healthy twist on a classic Passover recipe. My secret to making this dish gluten-free is to use almond flour in place of matzo meal. Yes, it’s true, I’ve created a Paleo Matzo Ball Soup!
Growing up, I loved chicken soup with matzo balls, and I still do. When I am getting over a cold, this soup dish is the first thing I make. We like to say that chicken soup is Jewish penicillin! And these gluten-free matzo balls only make it better. Be sure to use my chicken bone broth recipe in this soup, so that it is extra healthy and unbelievably delicious!
Traditionally, we serve this Paleo Matzo Ball Soup at Passover. Pesach is one of my favorite holidays. I adore holidays that involve a change of seasons and Passover, occurring each year in March or April (depending on the full moon), ushers in spring. Did you know that all of my recipes are kosher for Passover because they use almond flour?! That’s right I don’t have any gluten or chametz in the 800 recipes on this entire website! And all of my cookbooks are kosher for Pesach too!
Matzo Ball Soup
Ingredients
- 4 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons celtic sea salt
- ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
- 2 cups blanched almond flour (not almond meal), sifted
- 6 cups Chicken Stock or Kettle & Fire Bone Broth
Instructions
- In a medium bowl, beat eggs, (1 teaspoon) salt and pepper for 2 minutes
- Stir in the almond flour
- Refrigerate the mixture 2-4 hours
- Remove from refrigerator
- Heat a large pot of water (with 1 teaspoon salt) and bring to a boil
- Roll the batter into 1-inch balls then drop into the pot of boiling water
- Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 20 minutes
- Heat 6 cups chicken stock in a separate pot
- When the matzo balls are finished, remove from simmering water with a slotted spoon and add to chicken stock
- Ladle stock, plus 2-3 matzo balls into individual bowls and serve
Equipment
Like most other families who grew up celebrating this holiday, we had matzoh ball soup every year. My grandmother made this soup. My mother made this soup. And now I have made this soup! My children will be at least the fourth generation of my family to partake in matzo balls! But they will have gluten-free matzo balls!
I made a test batch today for my family to sample and was given the thumbs up. I will be serving this soup and other gluten-free Jewish food at our Passover seder.
These gluten free matzo balls are non-gebruchts, pareve and kosher for Passover. If you love these matzoh balls as much as we do, be sure to take a look at my healthy Paleo Passover menu! Here are some of my other classic Paleo Passover recipes:
David says
What a great recipe, but I would point out that with the inclusion of chicken stock (presuming this is real chicken stock), this is not pareve.
Carin says
Thanks for the great recipe! I eagerly await your cookbook.
I have a matzo ball question: have you ever made these ahead and frozen them? I used to do that with regular matzo balls but this is my first gluten-free Passover.
Thanks!
Carin
elana says
Erica,
Glad you like them.
Happy New Year!
Elana
Erica says
Ah, I thought it needed a bit more flour. Perfect! I added this to my site as part of a rcipe (http://www.comfybelly.com/2008/12/stone-soup.html). Thank you for a wonderful variation on matzo balls!
elana says
april,
So glad you liked it.
Elana
april says
yay! i have one of my absolute favorite comfort foods back! this is an amazing soup! the matzo balls are perfect!
elana says
april,
You are very welcome! I hope you like it as much as we do.
Elana
april says
i love you! this was one of the things that was sooo hard to say goodbye to. THANK YOU!!!!
elana says
Olga,
Thanks for your comment. Yes, matzo ball soup is amazing!
Elana
Lynda says
Elana,
Thank you for sharing your recipes with us!
Your Matzo Ball soup recipe reminds me of dumplings that I used to make and add to either my soups or stews.
I am in the process of learning Kosher/Jewish cooking cf to American and was curiouse why you cook the Matzo Balls in water instead of the chicken stock?
Lynda
Jean says
I cook them in the chicken soup. Delicious!! It does make the soup cloudy, however.
Olga says
Luckily I don’t have to eat non-gluten things. But I’m glad you came up with this recipe for those who need to follow these restrictions.
Matzo ball soup is awesome!
Ann says
The best Gluten Free Matzo Ball soup I have ever had came from EenaKadeena.com. I ordered the mix and followed the instructions.. it was simple, and they came out Perfect the very first time I tried.
My family tells me that they tasted just like the real thing!!
I’m going to buy more this week so I will have them for Passover
Sheila says
Hello,
Can you please give me a recipe or a product for matzo that does not contain OATS. Our granddaugter has celiac and now they realize that she cannot have ant oat product as well. Would appreciate any suggestions as soon as possible. Thanks.
Grandma
Vinny says
There are such a thing as GF oats.. Trader Joes sells them and so does other companies..
Krisy says
That mix might taste good, but it has 31 grams of carbohydrate per serving. The nice thing about Elana’s recipe: it’s gluten free AND is low-carb AND high protein, which is ideal for people who want to limit carbs.