Treat Yourself to Matzo Brei
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Broken-up matzo cooked with eggs is Passover comfort food. It also happens to be one of the easiest, heartiest, most versatile scrambles you can make.
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My Grandma use to make this. She grumbled five Matzo in a bowl add a little hot water, mush it up by hand drain water then mix in two eggs then fry it up. Top it with some jelly..
Chicken fat in a dish that's from the dairy menu? What's plan B?
Reminds me of getting home with the munchies back in the day when I imbibed. The only difference was that I'd use Taco flavor doritos and also add a little grated Cheddar 😂
I must say that that does not look appetizing!
Mmmm I ate this so often as a little girl and still do.
Sorry. It may be delicious, but That definitely does not look good.
Interesting
My family always topped it with maple syrup,
Julia, your hair looks fantastic!
Make mine in butter. Yum.
Oh, no! You can't use dairy to soak matzahs and then fry them in schmaltz! Are you kidding me? Seriously?! And then you put sour cream on top? No, no, no!!!! Never mix milk and meat in a kosher or even kosher style recipe! Oh, no!
I love that Julia always thanks the cook for the dish she's tasting every time.
He didn’t not get the “just gonna” memo. Other ATK personalities have shifted and gotten away from ever other sentence containing “just gonna.”
We all know…. the secret is the schmaltz
I had the exact same reaction as Julia when he pulled out that schmaltz.
If you don't have schmaltz handy, salted butter (or even browned butter), is pretty dang good
Fried mashed crackers……
This is just crackers & eggs.
Been eating and making this since childhood! 😋
I've had this maybe 10 times in my life with different accomplishments. I want to like matzo brei, and I usually like the first 3 bites. But I quickly grow tired of eating dressed-up cardboard.
I love more variety of textures when I eat, so I add milk to the eggs to make the batter more runny, but soak the matzo for a much shorter time. Additionally, I go in at high heat, to give the egg a chance to develop a slight crisp. I think it makes for a more interesting mouthfeel.
Sounds great!🌹😷
I loved this as a kid because it had sugar sprinkled on top…so, no onions. Savory is good too. It was a thrifty dish so the rule of thumb was one cracker to one egg.
You can't use dairy in that, you used schmaltz. I've never seen it made with meat, it's usually soaked in a custard to keep it soft, just eggs don't absorb well in Matzo.
great with smoked whitefish
Why are we doing matzo brei chanuka time? lol
Beautiful sharing ❤❤❤❤
Jewish chilaquiles!!!! Gotta love it!
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