Category: Healthy Adaptations
Lighter versions of the dishes in Traditional Recipes, in keto, gluten-free and plant-based directions depending on what the dish will bear.
The working rule is that an adaptation has to start from what the original actually tastes like. Cauliflower does not become a potato because you call it one, and a dumpling with no dough is not a dumpling. So the changes here are specific rather than uniform: almond and psyllium where a dough needs to stay elastic, roasted vegetables where meat was carrying the depth, kefir or cashew where sour cream was doing the work. Where a swap costs too much, it says so.
What these are not: the traditional articles carry the history, the holiday context and the regional arguments. The healthy versions deliberately leave that out. They are recipes, not retellings, and they assume you have read the other half if you wanted it.
Where the adaptations work hardest. Borscht without the beet sugar problem. Pierogi across three different doughs. Cholent that still tastes of twelve hours. Challah that still braids. Matzo balls that hold together.
By kitchen: Ukrainian, Polish, Ashkenazi Jewish, Lithuanian.
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~30 minutes | Total time: ~50 minutes | Serves: 4 | Difficulty: Easy Healthy halushky keep the method of the boiled Ukrainian dumpling: a simple egg…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~45 minutes | Total time: ~2 hours 30 minutes (with rising) | Serves: 6 (12 kibinai) per recipe | Difficulty: Medium Quick Overview Make the traditional…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: about 1 hour 15 minutes | Total time: about 1 hour 45 minutes | Serves: 8 (about 80–90 small dumplings) | Difficulty: Medium Quick Overview Knead…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Serves: 8 | Two versions: Chicken Cholent and Vegetarian Cholent | Difficulty: Easy Quick Overview Soak pinto and white beans, and chickpeas for the vegetarian pot, overnight Brown…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~45 minutes | Total time: ~2½ hours | Serves: 6 | Difficulty: Medium Quick Overview Fry finely chopped mushrooms until their liquid has cooked off Pound…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~1 hour | Total time: ~3 hours (including two rises) | Serves: 9 (about 18 doughnuts, 2 per serving) | Difficulty: Moderate Quick Overview Make a…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~40 minutes | Total time: ~5½ hours (including rising and cooling) | Serves: 16 (2 loaves) | Difficulty: Moderate Quick Overview Make a sponge of yeast,…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: about 45 minutes | Total time: about 4½ hours (longer if the poppy seeds soak overnight) | Serves: 16 | Difficulty: Moderate Quick Overview Make half…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~40 minutes | Total time: ~4 hours (including rising and cooling) | Serves: 20 (2 loaves, 10 slices each) | Difficulty: Moderate Quick Overview Replace half…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~30 minutes | Total time: ~1 hour 30 minutes | Serves: 6 | Difficulty: Easy Quick Overview Simmer skinless chicken thighs into a broth with onion,…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Prep time: 25 minutes | Cook time: 30 minutes | Serves: 8 | Difficulty: Easy Quick Overview Boil potatoes whole in their skins until tender, then peel and…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Prep: ~1 hour | Cooking: 2–2½ hours | Serves: 6–8 | Makes: approximately 16–18 rolls | Difficulty: Intermediate Quick Overview Prepare the cabbage exactly as in the traditional…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Healthy Kapuśniak Recipe: Sauerkraut Soup with Turkey Active time: ~30 minutes | Total time: ~1¾ hours | Serves: 6 | Difficulty: Easy Quick Overview Brown chunks of skinless…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~20 minutes | Total time: ~45 minutes | Serves: 4 (about 12 pancakes) | Difficulty: Easy Quick Overview Drain the farmer’s cheese well; lower-fat cheese is…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~30 minutes | Total time: ~55 minutes | Serves: 4–5 (about 12 patties) | Difficulty: Easy Quick Overview Grate potatoes, zucchini and onion; squeeze hard and…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~30 minutes | Total time: ~1¾ hours | Serves: 10 | Difficulty: Easy Quick Overview Boil whole wheat egg noodles until just tender Blend half the…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~40 minutes | Total time: ~4½ hours (including rising) | Serves: 16 (2 loaves) | Difficulty: Moderate Quick Overview Replace half the all-purpose flour with white…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~45 minutes | Total time: ~1 hour 20 minutes, plus draining the cheese | Serves: 6 (about 12 blintzes, 2 per serving) | Difficulty: Moderate Quick…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~30 minutes | Total time: ~35 minutes | Serves: 4 | Difficulty: Easy Quick Overview Fry the onion in a tablespoon of oil, then the mushrooms,…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~45 minutes | Total time: ~1 hour 40 minutes | Serves: 6 | Difficulty: Medium Quick Overview Whisk a thin batter of buckwheat and whole wheat…
Healthy Gołąbki Recipe: Lean Turkey and Brown Rice Cabbage Rolls Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Active time: ~1 hour | Total time: ~2–2½ hours | Serves: 6 | Difficulty: Medium Quick Overview Soften…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~1 hour | Total time: ~2½–3 hours | Serves: 6 | Difficulty: Medium Quick Overview Soften the cabbage and peel off the leaves, exactly as for…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~1¼ hours | Total time: ~1¾ hours | Serves: 4 | Difficulty: Medium Quick Overview Mix the dough from equal parts white and buckwheat flour with…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~1 hour | Total time: ~3½ hours, plus soaking and an overnight rest | Serves: 8 | Difficulty: Medium Quick Overview Soak dried mushrooms and keep…
