A Matza Ball With A Suprise

This is an original recipe. It’s basically a matza ball with a ground beef filling in the middle. It’s a distant cousin to kubbeh soup: a Kurdish delicacy. It quickly became a highly anticipated dish at each family seder.

A few years ago, the Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC asked listeners to post their matza ball recipes on their show page. I posted mine, and to my surprise, I got a call from the station asking me if I would be willing to talk about it on the show with Leonard and his guest, Jewish cookbook author Joan Nathan. I decided that I needed to create an online step-by-step guide for making them.

The Podcast

Here’s a link to the Leonard Lopate show about Matza Balls:
I make my appearance at about 19:00 minutes into the show.

The Method

Here’s a flickr album with step by step directions showing how how they’re made: