Q. See two questions above. How about when the boiled or soaked matza was mixed with eggs and then fried with just a little oil and even if the pieces were less than a kezais they now stick together by the fried eggs, what is now the brocho?
A. Vessen Brocho (p. 471) rules that french toast, that is a slice of bread usually more than a kezais, dipped in eggs and then fried the brochos are Hamotzy and Birchat Hamazon.
Star K(04/0917) quoting Rabbi D. Heber Shlit'a mentions:
"Matzah brei is typically made from matzah that was broken into pieces less than a kzayis. (The fact that they are reformed into a kzayis is irrelevant). The halachah is as follows: If the pieces of matzah were boiled in water (or submerged into a kli rishon) or the matzah is no longer nikker (e.g. fried in oil with eggs), one recites mezonos/al hamichya. If however, the matzah meal was not boiled and the matzah meal was only pan fried with no oil or butter and the matzah is still nikker, one recites hamotzi/birchas hamazon. See Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim [S.A. O.C.] 168:10 & M.B."
Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is similar and if the matza pieces were less than a kezais even when united by the eggs, the brocho is Mezonos.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu Shlit'a
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