Tag: Ashkenazi cuisine
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Part of our Heritage Kitchen Glossary – short guides to the dishes, ingredients and techniques of Eastern European cooking. Ask for a potato pancake in Warsaw, Kyiv and a Jewish home in either city, and you will get three different answers that look almost the same on the plate: placki ziemniaczane, deruny, and latkes. All…
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Part of our Heritage Kitchen Glossary – short guides to the ingredients and techniques behind Eastern European cooking. The short answer Schmaltz is rendered poultry fat – almost always chicken, historically goose – that served as the primary cooking fat of Ashkenazi Jewish kitchens for centuries. Where French cooking reaches for butter and Mediterranean cooking…
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Traditional Gefilte Fish Recipe: The Ashkenazi Dish Split by a Sweet-or-Pepper Line Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Traditional Recipe Card Jump to Lighter Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~1 hour | Total time: ~4 hours (including chilling) | Serves: 8 | Difficulty: Moderate Quick Overview Simmer fish bones, heads, onion,…
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Traditional Jewish Beet Borscht Recipe: The Ashkenazi Soup That Never Needed a Healthy Makeover Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: 15 minutes | Total cooking: 45 minutes | Chilling (optional): 4+ hours | Serves: 6 | Difficulty: Easy Quick Overview Simmer whole beets in water or…
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Healthy Latkes: Lighter Hanukkah Potato Pancakes That Still Crisp Up Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~30 minutes | Total time: ~40 minutes | Serves: 4–5 (about 16–18 pancakes) | Difficulty: Easy Quick Overview Air-fry or oven-bake instead of pan-frying in a pool of oil —…
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Traditional Latkes Recipe: Crispy Hanukkah Potato Pancakes Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~35 minutes | Total time: ~45 minutes | Serves: 4–5 (about 16–18 pancakes) | Difficulty: Easy Quick Overview Grate the potatoes and onion together, then squeeze out as much liquid as possible —…
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Healthy Matzo Ball Soup Recipe: Lighter Kneidlach, Same Comfort Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~45 minutes | Total time: ~2.5 hours (including chilling time) | Serves: 6 | Difficulty: Moderate Quick Overview Build the broth from skinless chicken breast and thighs, trimmed of visible fat,…
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Traditional Matzo Ball Soup Recipe (Kneidlach): Ashkenazi Jewish Penicillin Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~45 minutes | Total time: ~2.5 hours (including chilling time) | Serves: 6 | Difficulty: Moderate Quick Overview Simmer a whole chicken with carrots, celery, onion, and dill into a clear,…
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Healthy Noodle Kugel: A Lighter Take on the Shabbat Classic Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~25 minutes | Total time: ~1 hour 30 minutes | Serves: 10 | Difficulty: Easy Quick Overview Whole wheat egg noodles replace regular egg noodles — more fiber, same familiar…
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Traditional Noodle Kugel Recipe: The Sweet Egg Noodle Casserole of the Shabbat Table Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~25 minutes | Total time: ~1 hour 30 minutes | Serves: 10 | Difficulty: Easy Quick Overview Boil wide egg noodles until just tender Whisk eggs, cottage…