Traditionally, tabbouleh salad is made with bulgur, but in this rendition, I swapped it out for cauliflower rice, a low-calorie, nutrient-packed alternative. Mixed with the lemon juice, parsley and mint, the cauliflower rice blends in and adds a nice texture without overpowering the dish with a strong cauliflower flavor. I promise you won’t even notice…
Recipe contributed by Ellie Ashoori. Fesenjoon (also known as fesenjan) is a staple at Persian Jewish simchas—weddings and engagement parties, b’nai mitzvot and brits. There are two reasons. First, turkey is considered a more luxurious and gamey meat in Iran, and second, walnuts have always been considered a more pricey and festive ingredient (as is pomegranate…
Recipe contributed by Alfreda Yazdi, originally from Iran. Persian cooking is known for its stews, with fesenjan, as this dish is known, being one of its most popular. The brown color doesn’t do justice to the wonderful sweet and sour flavors.
This Italian-inspired recipe offers a fresh flavorful alternative to traditional gefilte fish for holiday meals. I’ve boosted the flavor and texture with the addition of artichokes and a topping of salsa verde—green sauce, which I’ve enhanced with horseradish in a nod to gefilte-fish tradition. The Parmesan cheese can be omitted if you need a nondairy…
Tzimmes is an Eastern European stew of carrots and/or sweet potatoes and prunes traditionally cooked with beef flanken, often sweetened with brown or white sugar and sometimes thickened with flour. In Yiddish, the word tzimmes means “a big fuss,” probably because of all the work required to make the old-style dish. This version couldn’t be…
This is my take on meat patties. I add lamb fat for amazing flavor, seltzer for unmatched lightness and walnuts for crunch. This is great recipe for Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israeli Independence Day), backyard summer barbecues and even Passover.
This recipe comes from Sara Yaech, a woman whom I met on a trip to Havana the week before Barack Obama visited Cuba. Descended on her father’s side from Turkish Jews who came from Istanbul to this Spanish-speaking country in the 1920s, Sara grew up with Turkish and Ladino food. An amazingly alive woman in…
Jews serve horseradish, sliced as a root or ground into a sauce, at Passover to symbolize the bitterness of slavery. It was in Ashkenaz, what is now Alsace-Lorraine and southern Germany, that the horseradish root replaced the romaine and arugula of more southerly climates as the bitter herbs at the Passover dinner. Today, farmers in France…
Although gefilte innovation like the first jarred fish and the frozen loaves are taking over now, I still, as with many things, prefer the taste of homemade that I make twice a year for Passover and Rosh Hashanah. Before Passover, at what we call a “gefilte-in,” friends assemble in my kitchen with their own pots,…
Recipe contributed by Gidon van Emden. Born and raised in Amsterdam, Gidon is currently KOL Foods’ Customer Experience Manager and previously worked as a cook and kashrut supervisor. He shares, “These matzah balls are actually made from matzah, rather than from matzah meal alone. Because you crumble the matzahs yourself, they give a nice texture to…
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