Posts Tagged ‘Kosher Recipes’

A Taste for Hidden Miracles

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Gift bags, cellophane, tissue paper and sweets are starting to fill Jewish homes everywhere…it’s beginning to look a lot like Purim!  The giving of mishloach manot (gifts of food) may be the impetus for much excitement and imagination on Purim – all gussied up with themes and pretty ribbons – but decorated baskets and colorful costumes aren’t the only outlets for creativity on Purim.  Eating a lavish feast, one of the important obligations of the day, affords us every bit as much opportunity to “go crazy” in honor of the holiday.

In our home, each year we spice up our festive meal by choosing an international cuisine around which we plan the entire menu.  It’s been great fun having a “Down Home Purim”, and a “Purim Fiesta!”  This year, though, we decided to let one of the themes of the Purim story, namely, hester panim, be the theme of our meal.  Hester Panim means “hidden face,” referring to the notion that G-d watches and assists us even though we don’t see Him.  This is a key theme in the story of Purim, where the Jews were miraculously saved, even though no seas were split and no walls mysteriously crumbled.  In fact, that is the reason we wear costumes on Purim!  With that in mind, our guests will be discovering all kinds of hidden treats during the course of the meal this year.   From the mysteriously stuffed oven-roasted tomatoes to the beggar’s purses for dessert, we’ll keep ‘em guessing from start to finish!

An elegant choice for a “hidden” main entrée is the following recipe for a Veal Roulade stuffed with Butternut Squash.  A roulade is a French term for a thin slice of meat rolled around a filling.  It sounds complicated, involving all kinds of fancy techniques like “searing” and “deglazing”, but you’ll be surprised at how simple it is if you just follow the steps carefully.  Beautiful to the eye, this dish is well suited for a tender cut of meat such as a boneless breast of veal (a.k.a. “veal brisket”), but would also work well with a butterflied boneless turkey breast (be sure to type “butterflied” in the special instructions field when ordering online).   Once sliced, your guests will discover the flavorful stuffing hiding within.

Have a happy and tasty Purim!

Veal Roulade with Butternut Squash Stuffing and Maple-Wine Glaze

This elegant entrée can easily be doubled to serve a larger crowd.  For a 5 lb. brisket, cooking time after searing should be extended to 1½ hours at 350 degrees.

Serves 4-6.

Stuffing:

  1. 3 Tbsp. olive oil
  2. 1 cup (1 medium) onion, chopped
  3. 1 garlic clove, minced
  4. 2 cups butternut squash, peeled, seeded and diced
  5. 1 ½ tsp. fresh chopped thyme
  6. 1 cup baby bella or crimini mushrooms, coarsely chopped
  7. ¼ cup coarse fresh bread crumbs or panko bread crumbs
  8. Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste

Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium high heat.  Add chopped onion and sauté for 3-4 minutes, or until just translucent.  Add garlic and butternut squash, stirring to coat with oil.  Sauté for another 6 -7 minutes, or until squash starts to become tender.  Season to taste with kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper.  Add thyme and mushrooms.  Stir to blend and sauté another 4-5 minutes, or until mushrooms begin to wilt. Turn heat off, and add bread crumbs to the pan, stirring to distribute.  Set mixture aside.

Roulade:

  1. 2 Tbsp. olive oil
  2. 1 tsp. paprika
  3. ½ tsp. black pepper
  4. 2 ¼ lbs. veal brisket
  5. 10 pieces kitchen twine, approximately 16-18” long (for tying the roulade)
  6. ½ cup dry white wine, divided
  7. ¼ cup pure maple syrup
  8. Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper

Preheat oven to 450 degrees.  Combine olive oil, paprika and black pepper in a small bowl.  Mix to blend and set aside. 

Lay brisket out flat on a large cutting board or work space.  Season the brisket with salt and freshly ground black pepper.  Spread the stuffing mixture all over the brisket, leaving a 1 inch border all around.  Starting from one end, roll the brisket up, being careful that the stuffing doesn’t slide out.  Tie the roulade closed with kitchen twine at 1-2 inch intervals (if you are having trouble tying the roulade without it falling apart, secure with a few toothpicks and then remove them after you have finished tying it up).   Place the tied roulade in a heavy roasting pan and rub spice mixture all over the exterior. 

Place roulade in oven and sear for 15-20 minutes (exterior will be browned).  Pour ¼ cup white wine into the bottom of the roasting pan and cover with foil.   Reduce heat to 350 degrees and bake for approximately 45 minutes. 

Remove from oven and allow roulade to rest for 15 minutes.  Transfer roulade to a cutting board, reserving pan juices in the roasting pan.  Place roasting pan on stove over medium heat, scraping up browned bits with a spatula*.  Add maple syrup and remaining ¼ cup wine.  Bring to a boil.  Reduce heat to low and simmer for about 15-20 minutes or until sauce is thickened and slightly syrupy.  Remove from heat.  Skim off excess fat if necessary, and season to taste with salt and pepper. 

When ready to serve, snip pieces of twine and discard.  Slice roulade into 1” rounds, and carefully place on a serving platter.  Drizzle glaze over roulade slices.  Serve and enjoy.

* If your roasting pan is not suited for stovetop cooking, simply pour the pan juices and any scraped bits into a small saucepan and continue with directions.  If your pan is non-stick, be sure not to use a metal spatula!

   By Naomi Ross

 

 

 

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PICKLED BEEF TONGUE

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Ingredients (needed for cooking 1kg or pickled tongue):

Kosher beef tongue

1 big spoon of oil

2 table spoons of saltpeter

1 teaspoon of sugar

Lots of garlic

Sweet pepper

Bay leaves

Parsley root

Cooking a kosher pickled tongue:

Chop garlic cloves finely.
Prepare a mixture of salt, saltpeter, garlic and sugar. Rub it in the tongue thoroughly and put the kosher tongue in a bowl.

Cover the beef tongue with a heavy press and leave it there for two weeks. Flip the kosher tongue over every day.

After two weeks, use the liquid that is formed in the bowl, add water to it. Add pepper, bay leaf and parsley root to the mixture.

Put on a stove and boil on small fire until cooked.

Serve cold, decorating with greenery.

Symbolism of the meal:

This meal is symbolizing Moses, who was a great prophet. He was given a very complicated task by the God to give people the laws of Torah and to explain them the meaning of the Jewish religion. For this reason tongue in this meal is symbolizing how complicated it was for Moses to speak to Jewish people in the dessert. The big beef tongue is very heavy and hard to move. And when the kosher beef tongue is pickled, then it is even harder to move!

The fact that the kosher beef tongue is put under the press is symbolizing the heavy yoke that Moses had to bear.

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Kosher recipe with deer meat

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

 

Deer meat is meat of a mammal of different deer species. Deer meat can be used for preparing kosher recipes with deer meat, such as steaks, stroganoffs, roasts, stews, minced meat, salads, jerky, sausages and a lot more. It is richer than beef, although has a similar taste. It is much better than beef in terms of texture of meat and is much leaner. Venison meat is much healthier than other meats, such as beef or lamb, as it contains less calories and fat, and has lower cholesterol level. For these reasons the meat has been growing in popularity over the past decade. And although deer meat was previously considered a very urban food for poor country citizens, it is now an exotic meal that is served in most sophisticated restaurants. Even some airlines now serve deer meat on board!

Another advantage of deer meat is that it is usually cheaper than beef, and it is also possible to hunt a deer, if you enjoy hunting. At the same time deer farming is very popular nowadays, so you can purchase dear in many stores and on-line. Farms are working on breeding different kinds of deer to make various sorts of deer meat for different deer meat recipes. Farm-raised deer are different from traditional forest deer, as they are smaller and give much higher quality of meat with special mild taste and flavor. Animal on the farms are fed properly and their diet includes grains, fruits and hay. Farmers try to eliminate all negative factors, such as stress causing noises, and provide perfect conditions for growth of healthy animals. No chemicals or steroids are used to raise deer in a farm. These factors make farm-raised deer meat more delicate. The exceptional taste of farm-raised deer is unforgettable. And the nutrition of the product is worth taking a try.

Deer meat can be used for kosher recipe with deer meat. Deer is kosher, as it is a ruminate with completely split hooves. Kosher food stores in Israel, America and Europe usually offer kosher deer meat for purchase, and you can surely order finest kosher deer meat on-line, especially during the hunting season. Deer meat, sold in supermarkets, usually comes from New Zea land, which is the biggest breeder of deer. When buying deer meat in a kosher store or from a kosher food company on-line, you can be sure that the animal was slaughtered properly, checked, prepared and put in packaging according to traditional Jewish laws and under supervision of a Rabin.

Kosher deer meat is one of the best choices for a kosher recipe. Deer meat not only has a fine-grained texture and an exquisite taste, but also has unique nutrition characteristics, that no other meat or poultry can offer. Even skinless chicken breast has more calories and higher cholesterol level that deer meat (lets not even start talking about veal, beef or lamb!).

Here are some tips for cooking kosher recipe with deer meat

* Deer meat should not be overcooked, as meat prepared beyond medium rare will usually have unpleasant taste and will be stiff as rubber. * When using deer meat for burgers, you will definitely find it too dry and not fat enough to be cooked properly and taste well in a burger. In this case it is necessary to add something fattening to the burger, such as olive oil or cheese. If you like the taste it is possible to mix deer meat with beef.

* To add mild flavor to your kosher recipe with deer meat, marinate it some time before cooking. Use Italian dressing, olive oil or beer to prepare marinade for deer meat.

* Pre-heat the cooking surface before placing meat on it.

* Cook meat on high heat.

* To find out what is the doneness of meat, cut the piece in the center and see the color of meat inside. Take into account that deer meat is more red, than beef, so it will look quite red, when it is already cooked medium.

* Make the meat rare or medium rare.

* Serve meat right after cooking.

* To achieve different taste of kosher recipe with deer meat, after cooking meat, cover it with foil and let it stand for 5-10 minutes.

Enjoy delicious taste of your kosher recipe with deer meat and eat healthy with nutritious deer meat!

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KOSHER RECIPE: DESERT “SEMOLINA SOUFFLE”

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Ingredients:
1) 5 cups milk
2) 1.5 cups sugar
3) 3 tablespoons semolina
4) 50g. butter
5) Lemon peel
6) 9 eggs
7) Vanilla

Cooking according to Jewish cooking recipes:
Take three cups of milk and pour into a pot. Dissolve one cup of sugar in the milk. Set the pot with kosher food on fire and slowly stirring the contents, add 3 tablespoons of semolina. Cook the kosher deserts for 8-10 minutes until it boils down.
Take five eggs and separate the white from the yolk. Whip up the egg whites.
Cool down the kosher deserts from semolina and add 50gramms of butter, lemon peel and keep constantly stirring the kosher product, add 5 egg yolks one by one. Stirring the mixture of kosher food products, add the beaten egg whites.
Oil an oven pan and lay the mixture of kosher food products there. Strongly heat the oven. Bake the kosher palette for about 30 minutes.

Sauce for kosher recipe (desert):
Take 4 eggs and separate the yolks from whites. Grind the yolks with 0,5 glass of sugar. Add 2 cups of milk and bring to a boiling point, stirring products kosher constantly. Remove sauce from heat and add a few packs of vanilla.
Cool down mixture, stirring it.
Put the baked semolina mixture into a dish and pour sauce.

Symbolism of the kosher deserts:
Semolina is a symbol of the manna from heaven, which the Jewish people ate during their wanderings in the desert. All 40 years, manna was the only food for the Jewish people. Sugar and vanilla symbolize the sweetness and pleasantness of manna.

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Kosher chicken recipe – STUFFED KOSHER CHICKEN NECK

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Ingredients for kosher gourmet food:

1. Kosher chicken or goose fat
2. Skin from a kosher chicken, goose or duck neck
3. Flour
4. Garlic clove
5. Pistachios
6. Onions
7. Dry basil leaves
8. Rosemary
9. Small carrots
10. Small potatoes
11. Chestnut
12. Lettuce

Cooking method for keeping kosher, according to kosher recipe chicken:

Remove the skin from a kosher chicken, goose or duck neck (if you don’t have such kosher food product for cooking kosher meal, just remove kosher chicken skin and sew it so it looks like neck skin).

Finely chop a garlic clove. Chop onions and fry them. Grind pistachios. Mix the Jewish kosher foods with fat, flour, onions, salt, pepper, and stuff the neck with this kosher food product mixture. Cook the kosher chicken neck in small amount of water on medium or low heat, then remove from water and fry. Smear potatoes with oil, then dip in basil and rosemary, then put into an oven to bake along with carrots and chestnuts.

Sauce used for kosher chicken recipes  kosher food list of ingredients:

1. Beef fat
2. Onions
3. Flour
4. Broth
5. Root of parsley
6. Thyme
7. Tomato paste
8. Bay Leaf
9. Beef marrowbone
10. 1 tablespoon of brandy
11. Quarter cup of some sort of red kosher wines
12. Parsley
13. Lettuce

How to prepare the sauce for kosher recipes:

Chop carrots and one small onion. Melt one-fifth of a cup of beef fat and fry finely chopped carrots and onion in beef fat.
Add a spoonful of flour. Continue stirring the kosher palette and add a cup of strong beef broth, bay leaf, parsley, thyme and cook the kosher meals for two hours on low heat.Then add a teaspoon of spicy tomato sauce and cook the kosher meals for another half hour. Remove marrow from the bone, cut it and put into water for a few minutes. Take a quarter cup of some sort of red kosher wines, add onions and boil for a few minutes. Add the sauce, which was cooked before and 1 tablespoon of brandy. Cook the Jewish kosher food on low heat for 10 minutes. Put the marrow from bones into sauce, add 1 teaspoon of finely chopped parsley and salt.
Remove from heat.

Stuffed neck is one of the traditional dishes, for which you can find many different Jewish recipes. Traditionally, kosher wines are used for sauce, where it bears its usual symbolism as a part of Jewish tradition.

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JELLIED KOSHER MEAT

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

Ingredients for Jewish meat:

1. Beef, veal, chicken legs
2. Chicken (or turkey or goose) neck, stomachs, hearts, wings
3. Eggs
4. Onions
5. Carrots
6. Garlic
7. Bay Leaf
8. Black pepper peas
9. Salt

Kosher recipes cooking:
Put chopped veal (or beef) legs into cold water and cook the kosher meat over medium heat in a covered saucepan for 5 hours.

Then add the chicken (turkey or goose) Jewish meat ingredients and continue cooking the kosher meat for another 2 hours. Then add carrots, after 15 minutes – onions, along with bay leaf, pepper and salt.

After 15 minutes, remove the kosher meat from heat.Separate the Jewish meat, stomachs, and hearts and chop them.Mix the kosher meat ingredients and pass through a meat grinder.Chop garlic finely.

Put the Jewish meat in a deep dish, but first pour strained broth into this dish (you should have enough broth to cover half of the dish, and some more broth left). Put the Jewish meat in a cold place and when the broth thickens, put sliced hard-boiled eggs on top, as well as sliced carrots and sliced garlic.Cover the Jewish kosher foods with the remaining of broth and put in a cold place.Serve the kosher meat with horseradish.

 Jellied kosher meat is a dish prepared from simple, inexpensive ingredients, and it symbolizes the hard times, when Jews were mostly poor and could not afford expensive food.Horseradish, which is used for serving in this kosher palette, is a symbol of their unpleasant life in those times.Jellied kosher meat is cooked for a long time, because overcoming these hard times took a long time.Hearts in this dish symbolize the fact that the Jewish religion does not only address to the mind, but also to the heart of people. 

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MIXED BARILLA

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

Ingredients for Jewish cooking:

1.Chicken
2.Veal
3. Kosher lamb and beef brains
4. Celery root
5. Root of parsley
6. Tomato puree
7. Pickled cucumbers
8. Pepper
9. Sauerkraut
10. Eggs
11. Onions
12.Pepper
13.Bay Leaf
14.Olives
15. Lemon
16. Parsley
17. Dill
18. Garlic

Cooking according to Jewish dietary laws:
Cover bones with water and cook for two and a half hours.

Fry kosher lamb and veal and then chop. After cooking the Jewish meat, remove bones from water, add fried kosher lamb and veal, chopped into small pieces. At the same time add celeriac, and parsley, and after 7 minutes add kosher chicken to the other Jewish foods.

Chop onions and fry until they turn yellow, add 2 tablespoons of tomato puree and fry the kosher foods some more. Cut cucumbers, cabbage and add the kosher food products to the boiling bouillon. Pour soup in clay pots and put in an oven for 2 hours at a temperature of 80 degrees. Release one egg into each pot, and raise the temperature in the oven up to 200 degrees. Let the kosher meat sit in the oven for 7 minutes and remove the kosher palette from heat. Chop some garlic and lemons and season the products kosher with it. To make your kosher menu more attractive, decorate, using herbs and olives.

Symbolism of keeping kosher:


This kosher recipe’s a symbol of the Noah’s Ark.

A clay pot symbolizes Noah’s Ark. The water in the soup symbolizes the flood. The fact that the kosher chicken is added to the kosher palette 7 minutes after adding all other kosher food products, symbolizes the fact that Noah released the first dove after 7 days. Olives in the kosher recipes represent the olive branch that the dove brought, and which became a symbol of the end of the flood.Greens in the soup (parsley and dill) symbolize the land, which appeared after the flood.Eggs are a symbol of the species, which were saved in the Noah’s Ark. Bay leaf according to kosher rules symbolizes the glory of Jewish people. According to many kosher cookbooks, lemon fragrance symbolizes the Torah.

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One of the most famous kosher food recipes – LATKES

Monday, October 12th, 2009

Potato pancakes Latkes – is one of the most famous and popular dishes which you can find in Jewish cooking recipes.

Ingredients:

 1.Potatoes
2. Vegetable oil
3. Onions
4. Salt
5. If necessary, add eggs and flour

 Cooking method according to kosher cookbooks:Wash and peel potatoes. Grate the potatoes on a fine grater. Chop onions finely. Mix the potatoes with onions and add some salt to the Jewish foods.
Divide the mass of kosher meals into small portions and fry on both sides in vegetable or olive oil over medium heat in a pan.
If these kosher foods are prepared without eggs (cooked according to kosher recipe vegetarian), this kosher product will be an excellent addition to a vegetarian diet.
If kosher product is prepared with adding of flour and eggs, then latkes can be served with sour cream for non-vegetarians. Latkes is a kosher product, which can be eaten with almost any other sauce according to your taste.

 

Enjoy eating kosher food!

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STUFFED KOSHER FISH

Sunday, October 11th, 2009

Ingredients for preparing kosher fish:

  1. Rosemary
  2. Fish (carp or other kosher fish, which is suitable for stuffing)
  3. Onions
  4. Olive oil
  5. A few eggs
  6. Nuts
  7. Black pepper
  8. Sour milk
  9. Carrots
  10. Green olives
  11. Lemon
  12. Garlic
  13. Tomato puree
  14. Parsley
  15. Cilantro.

If necessary you can substitute sour milk with sour cream.

Cooking kosher fish:


Take the kosher fish (from 1,5 kg or more), clean, wash, add salt and pepper.

Cut into circles of three medium sized onions.

Fry the onions in half a glass of olive oil, add a tablespoon of tomato puree, 1 cup of crumbled nuts, salt, black pepper, parsley, and cilantro.

Add a little milk, mix the minced fish meat and stuff fish with it.

Add a few twigs of rosemary inside the kosher fish and sew.

Put the fish on oven pan, pour half a glass of olive oil, lay around some small round carrots, and onion rings.

Bake the kosher food in oven at moderate temperature.

Whip up 1 cup of sour milk, yogurt or sour cream with two or three eggs and pour over fish. Then bake it in a hot oven until the sauce turns brown.

Symbolism of kosher today:

Stuffed kosher fish symbolizes the prophet Jonah, who did not comply with orders of the Lord and for that was swallowed by a huge fish. Parsley, cilantro, onion, garlic, pepper and sour milk – is what prophets (including Jonah) ate in the past. Nuts are the symbol of wisdom of God.

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BEDOUIN KOSHER CHICKEN RECIPE

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

BEDOUIN KOSHER CHICKEN RECIPE

 This is one of the oldest and most popular kosher chicken recipes.
Ingredients:

  1. Kosher chicken
  2. Tomatoes
  3. Potatoes
  4. Carrots
  5. Sweet potatoes
  6. Garlic
  7. Onion
  8. Salt
  9. Ginger
  10. Turmeric
  11. Rice
  12. Kamoun

Cooking kosher chicken:
Peal and cut onion bulbs into eight pieces each. Take enough onion to cover the bottom of the pot. Add oil and stir fry the onions without bringing them up to readiness.

Prepare a mixture of spices for the kosher chicken recipe:
three fifth of Kamoun, one fifth of turmeric, and one fifth of cinnamon and ginger. Divide kosher chicken into 8 parts, put chicken pieces on onions and sprinkle with a mixture of spices.Add salt to the kosher food. Then cover the chicken with vegetables, cut into large pieces (everything, except for onions). Vegetables should also be sprinkled with a mixture of spices. Then pour a little water (if there is a lot of kosher chicken, sometimes you don’t need to add water). Close the pan and cook over low heat for about one and a half hours at least. If necessary, add more water in the process of cooking the kosher meal.

Meaning of kosher meal:
Kosher chicken is one of the most important products in the Kosher diet. This kosher recipe chicken is still used by the Bedouins, but is one of the most ancient ways of kosher cooking chicken. This tradition came to us back from the forefathers.

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