Savory Herbed Matzoh Kleis

Matzoh Balls made from Whole Matzoh

Preparation info
  • Yield: about

    6

    Servings
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Jewish Holiday Cooking

By Jayne Cohen

Published 2008

  • About

Homey dumplings have been a hallmark of German cuisine ever since the Middle Ages, and the Yiddish words, knaidl (a variant of knoedl) and kleis (which began as klosse) reveal their German ancestry. Jewish cooks in Central and Eastern Europe incorporated dumplings into their repertoire, fashioning them from bread, rolls, flour, and potatoes.

And for Passover, they made fluffy balls out of matzoh. I have found that the Alsatian, German, and Czech matzoh ba