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:
karlos says
Wow! Mine were a little gritty (I didn’t sift the almond flour) but they were quite tasty. The poofed up like mad so next time I’ll make them smaller to start. I was trying to use things up so added some spinach, asparagus and carrots to the broth. Thanks for thinking this up, I’ve really missed matzo ball soup since jumping on the low carb bandwagon.
IM says
How can you possibly call these pareve when they chicken stock in them?
Barbara says
The matzoh balls are parve until you put them in the chicken soup. If you want to keep them parve, heat them up in a vegetable stock. There is no cheicken stock in the matzoh balls.
Deborah says
Hi. Can these be made ahead?
Barbara says
yes. See my comment below on how to freeze them and defrost them.
Lynn Stein says
Wow!!!! These are delicious. I made a homemade veg soup today, with one pot of regular matzoh balls for my family and another pot of these for me. I was skeptical, but these are delicious. Mine puffed up beautifuuly but were almost bright white out of the water, so I was afraid they wouldn’t have much taste, but they did. NeXt time I might cook them in stock. I also like to add some finely chopped herbs. Make extras and pan fry in butter for a lunch treat.
sHAUNA says
I am having severe allergies to basically everything but need to find a substitute for the eggs! any ideas? i miss my moms cooking!
Cate says
Try flax . . . there are substitution measurements on the back of a bag usually.
liese says
Humm… I’m wondering why you wouldn’t just boil these in the chicken stock instead. Or is it traditional?
AnneKD says
Elana, thank you for posting links to define gebruchts, pareve and kosher. I’m Catholic but I’ve always wondered about those terms. And thanks for posting a recipe for gf matzos, I’ll have to try them!
Jessamine says
I love matzo ball soup! I’m going to try this recipe and add my miracle noodles to make chicken noodle soup. :)
Susan says
I found this great Gluten Free Passover cookbook on iTunes from glutenfreematzo.com. Check out the amazing recipes that can be made year round.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/gluten-free-passover-cookbook/id510576449?mt=11
Yvie says
This was amazing! I have been craving Matzo Ball soup and I must have missed this at some point … I can’t tell you how happy I am that you shared this recipe. It is super simple and was so delicious. I found a really yummy free-range chicken stock that has no sugar or soy added and it was just perfect for this! Thank you!