Grandma's Gefilte Fish
Ingredients
- 6 lbs fish - pike, perch, whitefish, mullet
Stock
- Fish Bones
- 3 carrots
- 3 celery tops
- 3 small onions
- 1 tbs salt
- 3/4 tsp pepper
Ground Fish Mixture
- 2 carrots
- 3 small to medium onions
- 3 celery bottoms
Binder
- 5 eggs
- 1 2/3 tbs salt
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 1/2 cup matzoh meal
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 1/3 tbs sugar
Instructions
- Clean and fillet fish, saving the bones. Have fishmonger prepare fish.
Stock
- Boil bones in about 2 quarts water and then strain.
- Make stock by adding stock ingredients.
Grind
- Grind raw fish together with Ground Fish Mixture ingredients.
Form
- Mix together ground vegetables and fish with Binder ingredients.
- Form into balls.
- Drop into broth and simmer for 1 1/2 hours.
- Lay roe on top.