The Best Matzo Ball Soup

We've tested every trick in the book to figure out exactly how to make the perfect matzo balls—whatever that means to you.

Matzo ball soup

If you need something warming (like a warm hug) then this is the soup for you. 

Classic Matzo Ball Soup Recipe: Fluffy OR Chewy - The Woks of Life

This traditional matzo ball soup recipe will help you make the perfect matzo balls, whether you like them light and fluffy or al dente.

Chicken-Stuffed Matzo Balls

These chicken meatballs are designed to be stuffed inside matzo balls, but they're also good to eat on their own once you simmer them in chicken soup.

Sopa de Albóndigas de Pollo (Nicaraguan Chicken Meatball Soup)

This Nicaraguan version of chicken soup has tender corn masa–based chicken dumplings infused with culantro and mint.

Basic Mexican Tamale Dough

This dough recipe for Mexican tamales makes a light and flavorful tamale that can be stuffed with your favorite filling, like green chili and pork or red chili with chicken.

Southern Foodways' Mississippi Delta Hot Tamales

Among the more curious dishes in The Southern Foodways Alliance Community Cookbook are these Mississippi Delta Hot Tamales. There are many takes on the story, but they all have something to do with Mexican laborers migrating north from Texas to pick cotton.

Tamal de Cazuela (Mexican Tamale Pie) With Black Bean Filling

Tamales are delicious, but forming them is a small pain in the culo. This baked tamale pie, know as a tamal de cazuela in Mexico, is the solution: all the joys of tamales with not nearly as much work.

Sopa de Lima (Yucatán Style Lime Soup)

Sopa de Lima is a bright and citrusy Mexican chicken soup that will tantalize your taste buds. This comforting soup is easy and delicious.

Sopa de Lima (Yucatán-Style Lime Soup)

My wife, Adri, and I just got back from a week spent eating our way around Mérida and the rest of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. Sopa de lima, the Mayan poultry and lime soup that's popular up and down the Yucatán, is one of the simplest and most crowd-pleasingly delicious dishes we had.