Mock Gefilte Fish
Ready In: 3 hrs
Serves: 12
Ingredients
Stock
- 8 cups chicken stock
- 1 large onion, sliced
- 3 carrots, peeled and sliced thinly
- 6 celery ribs, sliced
- 6 peppercorns
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 3 tablespoons sugar
Meatballs
- 1 onion
- 3 carrots
- 2 lbs ground chicken
- 3 eggs
- 2⁄3 cup matzo meal or 2⁄3 cup breadcrumbs
- 1⁄3 cup stock, cooled
- pepper
- 2 1⁄2 teaspoons salt
- 2 1⁄2 tablespoons sugar
- parsley, chopped
Directions
- Bring water and stock ingredients to a boil and simmer for half an hour.
- Meanwhile, grate onion and carrots, and mix with the chicken, eggs, and reserved stock. Add the matzo meal or bread crumbs and season with salt, pepper, and sugar. Form into medium-sized balls.
- Bring stock to a boil, reduce heat to a simmer and add meat balls and parsley. Cover partially. Simmer for 2 hours.
- Place meat balls in a casserole dish. Reduce the stock to about half, strain, and pour over the meat balls. Top with cooked carrot slices.
- Cool thoroughly in the refrigerator.
- Serve with horseradish sauce.
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