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Israeli (Pearl) Couscous with Roasted Vegetables

I’ve been eating this at a friend’s house for years, and now I think you should all try it too. This is not my recipe, nor theirs. It comes from a cookbook but I have no clue which one.

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The Best Matzah Lasagna Recipe

Once you’re halfway into Passover, and the leftovers from seder are long gone, do you find yourself craving something that ...

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15 Exciting Hamantaschen Recipes for Purim

Wondering why hamantaschen are traditional Purim fare? The reasons and symbolism are abundant. Check out The History and Meaning of Hamantaschen.

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How to Make Kosher (Non-Dairy) Hungarian Chicken Paprikash

Chicken Paprikash is a Hungarian comfort food, adapted by prewar Hungarian Jews to fit with the kosher laws, and passed down through the generations with love.

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Traditional Soft, Fluffy Challah for Shabbat

Choose a very large bowl. You can see from my pictures that my bowl was not large enough, so after making the dough I transferred it to a large disposable pan to rise.

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Honey-Mustard Glazed Salmon with Pomegranate Salsa

This recipe is perfect for Rosh Hashanah. Pomegranates symbolize our wish to have a year filled with mitzvot and good deeds, just as a pomegranate is filled with luscious seeds.

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Spiced Roasted Carrots for Rosh Hashanah - Kosher Recipes

On Rosh Hashanah, it is customary to eat foods whose names in the vernacular allude to blessing and prosperity. For example, the Yiddish word for carrot, meren, also means “increase,” symbolizing our wish for a year of abundance.

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This Sheet Pan Teriyaki Chicken Is a Shabbat Staple for Seattle Jews

Growing up in Seattle, our Friday night menu was nearly the same every week: chicken soup, roast chicken slathered in ...

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Tunisia's Iconic Tuna Sandwich Has an Incredible Jewish Story

A fricassée Tunisian is an amped-up tuna sandwich served on a fried roll that you can get your hands on ...

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Kosher Recipe: Garlic-Bread Challah

A marriage between garlic bread and challah...it's about time this happened!

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7 Egg-Free Desserts for Passover

Every year in the weeks leading up to Passover, I start to feel a little flutter in my stomach. It ...

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Gondi Is the Persian Jewish Soup You Need Right Now

Gondi is a truly delicious and wholly Jewish-Persian dish. It’s a meat-dumpling soup with chickpeas that’s served for Shabbat dinner ...

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Hearty Tortellini Soup with Spinach and Butternut Squash

1 onion, finely diced
1 leek, washed and sliced
2 celery stalks, finely chopped
2 carrots, cut into half or quarter rounds
2 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp kosher salt

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How to Make Cheese Blintzes

Golden crepes stuffed a creamy sweet cheese filling

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4 Simple Charoset Recipes - How to Make Passover Charoset - Smooth, Chunky, and Nut-Free

In the lead up to Seder night, it’s time to start thinking about the Seder plate foods, including how to make charoset (also called haroset)—a mixture of apples, nuts and wine which resembles the mortar and brick made by the Jews when they toiled for Pharaoh. This is used as a type of relish into which the maror (bitter herb) is dipped (and then shaken off) before eating.

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How to Make Sabich Pita Sandwiches at Home

Sabich is falafel’s younger, less well known cousin—a popular pita sandwich in Israel, brought there by Iraqi immigrants. The warm pita is stuffed with slices of hard boiled egg, soft fried eggplant, Israeli salad, pickles, hummus, tahini, and amba—a savory pickled mango sauce. It might sound like too much going on in one sandwich, but somehow it all works.

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Shakshuka: The Perfect Meal for Any Time of Day

Shakshuka is the perfect thing to make when you want something fresh and relatively quick that you can make with ingredients you probably already have in the house. Best of all, it works for breakfast, lunch, or dinner, and if you're having company on short notice, it's an easy way to impress and a fun, social way to eat.

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Sheet-Pan Gnocchi with Summer Vegetables

Did you know that gnocchi doesn’t need to be boiled? I did not, until recently. The texture is different—a little more chewy and the outside gets nice a crispy—but equally delicious. The vegetables provide so much flavor, and the burst tomatoes coat the gnocchi creating a light sauce. A shaving of parmesan over the top just brings the whole thing home.

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Classic Cheesecake with Fresh Fruit for Shavuot

s that time of year again, when cheesecakes galore are popping up all over the place. To be honest, I am not cheesecake’s biggest fan, but this recipe is one even I enjoy. The actual cheesecake is lighter, with a slight lemony undertone, and the fresh fruit helps temper the richness

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Individual Shepherd's Pies - Gluten Free & Kosher for Passover!

These cute little shepherd's pies get loads of flavor from the onion, carrots, and parsnip. You'd be surprised what a few good root veggies can do!

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One-Pan Za'atar Chicken and Barley with Tu B'Shevat Fruits

On Tu B’Shevat (the New Year for trees) it’s customary to eat fruit—particularly the seven species for which Israel is praised:

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Purple Cabbage Salad with Apple, Mint, Lime & Grapefruit - Cabbage-Based Salads

This salad was tart and refreshing and surprisingly popular when I made it for friends.

Miscellaneous | Passover

How to Cook for Passover with No Specialty Ingredients - Tips & Recipes for Coronavirus Cooking

There’s no question that Passover this year looks very different from usual for most of us.

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Panic Soup - For Pandemic Times!

With so much uncertainty and anxiety in the world right now, as things evolve hour by hour, I think it’s fair to say all of us are feeling unsettled to some degree or another. I, for one, have done a fair bit of panicking (some of which somehow resulted in this sou

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Classic ‘Lekvar’ (Prune Butter) Hamantaschen

‘Lekvár’ refers to thick fruit butter, and when it comes to hamantaschen it typically refers to the prune filling (and sometimes apricot—although it is nothing like the more familiar store-bought apricot jams). Unsurprisingly, it is eastern European in origin.

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My Favorite Kosher Gluten-Free Challah Bread

Gluten-free baking can be an exercise in frustration, but this bread recipe has never let me down. For me, the success is in the texture. As you can see, it has plenty of aeration which lends it some of the fluffiness of real bread.

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Kosher Vegan Black-Rice Stuffed Mushrooms!

If you haven't tried black rice before, don't be scared. It's good stuff. More similar in taste and texture to wild rice than to either brown or white rice. You can also try it in this warm fall salad I made a couple of years ago, which is still a favorite.

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Crunchy & Vibrant Summer Rolls with Almond-Miso Sauce - Vegetarian - Kosher Recipe

I first attempted summer rolls (or rice paper rolls) like these a few years ago, and I simply could not master them.

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Kosher Cooking: Creamy Olive Pasta

Every time I open a can of olives for a specific purpose, I'm left with what seems like hundreds of them to use up, which is how I discovered this recipe.