Ratcheting Up the Matzo Ball
I had a spectacular version of the matzo ball, a Lithuanian recipe (so the cook claims) that is stuffed with meat, a liver mixture I think. Unbelievably delicious. Does anyone have such a recipe? These are not boiled but steamed over a bed of carrots lightly dusted with brown sugar.
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We used to have these sometimes when I was younger- I don't think there was a specific recipe, just use your normal matzo ball recipe, possibly slightly denser if you normally go for ultra-fluffy. Make a (pre-cooked) stuffing of meat, onions, diced veggies, whatever else you want to season it with, and then stuff the kneydlekh as you form them: with wet hands, make the ball, them make an indentation, put some stuffing, and seal it up well/roll it a bit. We boiled them this way-- I imagine steaming would work too, but they might end up flat on the bottom.
Btw the liver filling sounds like something similar to German Leberknödel- in fact, matzo balls are really just the same thing as German knödel anyway, just made with matzo meal instead of bread. Leberknödel isn't usually stuffed inside a bread Knödel, but you could look at a Leberknödel recipe if you do want liver filling!
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