matzo ball

English

Alternative forms

• matza ball, matzah ball, matzoh ball, matzoball

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Noun

matzo ball (plural matzo balls)

1. A ball of unleavened dough, often served in soup in Jewish culture.
   • 2014 January 30, Seth Kugel, “Wintertime Bargains in Budapest”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Food was prepared with a far defter hand; I had matzo ball soup and boiled beef with horseradish, which sounds terrible but was excellent; Eliza ordered cholent, a thick bean stew, topped with a slice of meat loaf — our Jewish-mom-like server basically forced her.

Further reading

• matzah ball on Wikipedia.Wikipedia