Posts Tagged ‘Kosher Recipes’

KOSHER RECIPE: VEGETARIAN SALAD

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

Jewish kosher is not only a traditional thing, it is also a very healthy diet for anyone, who wants to eat good food, which has positive effect on your body. If you have decided to try kosher diet, then this kosher recipe – vegetarian salad is one of the best meals to start with!

Ingredients according to Jewish dietary laws:

  1. Green Salad
  2. Green onions
  3. Thyme
  4. Cream
  5. Radish
  6. Egg
  7. Cucumber
  8. Mustard
  9. Vinegar
  10. Salt
  11. Sugar
  12. Dill
  13. 1 yellow bell pepper
  14. 1 small carrot
  15. Several small flowers
  16. Black olives

Cooking according to kosher rules:
Hard-boil the egg.
Chop the herbs and stir.
Wash cucumber and radish and cut into small slices.
Finely slice carrots and yellow pepper. Put everything on a platter. Add salt and mix the Jewish food with cut herbs.
Mix sour cream with a small amount of mustard, a little vinegar and sugar. Whip up the sour cream.
For kosher cooking vegetarian salad, pour sauce on the greens.
Hard-boiled egg should be cut into circles and used for the decoration of the kosher products in the salad. Add flowers for even more beautiful decoration.
Two black olives should be put in the center of the salad to complete the kosher recipe – vegetarian salad.

Symbolism of the kosher food product:
This kosher recipe – vegetarian salad is a symbol of nature, its freshness and beauty. Green grass and vegetables symbolize summertime, sour cream – snow, which covers everything in winter. Ornaments in the form of eggs and olives – flowers.

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KOSHER FOOD : KUGEL

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Ingredients for cooking kosher food recipes:

  1. 2 cups of flour
  2. 5 eggs
  3. Half liter of water
  4. 2 onions
  5. Salt
  6. Chicken or goose fat

Kosher recipe of Jewish cooking:
Pour 2 tablespoons of flour on the board, in the center of the pile create a deepening.
Mix 2 eggs with water and salt, and pour into the deepening in the flour pile. Blend the dough and let the kosher product stand for 15 minutes.

Then divide into pieces and flatten it out into thin circles. Let the Jewish food dry up a little bit and roll it into rolls, then chop finely.

The noodles that you now have should be put into a baking pan and dried up. When the noodles have dried (preferably in the sun), place them into salted water and boil the kosher food product until cooked (but don’t make it overcooked).

Drain the water from the noodles.
Fry Onion until it turns golden-brown. Mix onions with bacon and fat. Add 2 eggs and noodles and place the kosher product in a clay pot. Cover the pot with dough and put the kosher meal in the oven.
According to the kosher recipe, the kosher meal should be cooked in the oven at 100 degrees as long as possible, but don’t make it overcooked.

Enjoy eating kosher food and discover more to understand what is kosher food!

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KOSHER FISH: HERRING

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Fish is one of the main kosher food products, which is used in many kosher meals and in different forms of Jewish cooking. There are many ways of cooking fish according to Jewish dietary laws. In this kosher recipe, let us represent you an easy way of cooking and serving kosher fish.

Ingredients for kosher recipe:

  1. Herring
  2. Cinnamon
  3. Bay leaf
  4. Allspice
  5. Walnuts
  6. Olive oil (or regular vegetable oil)

    Cooking kosher and serving kosher fish:

    Cut the herring into slices and lay out neatly on a platter. Grind bay leaves and sprinkle herring with it. Crumble allspice and crush the walnuts. Sprinkle the herring with it.

    Pour olive oil on top.

    One of the meals for your kosher menu is ready!
    Symbolism of kosher fish:

    Fish is one of the oldest symbols that are used for traditional kosher cooking. Herring is often used as a symbol of the hard life of Jews in various countries in which they settled. Cinnamon, olive oil and allspice are symbols of the land of Israel.

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    KOSHER DRINKS: COMPOTE "ARBA MINIM"

    Friday, October 2nd, 2009

    Ingredients for kosher drinks:

    • - Blueberries
    • - Figs
    • - Lemon
    • - Sugar
    • - Water.

    Kosher cooking recipe:

    Take dried figs and immerse into cold water, bring to a boil and keep on medium heat until the figs become tender.

    Then add some diced lemon and sugar by taste (usually for kosher drinks it’s about 0.25kg per 2 pints of water).

    Five minutes later, add some blueberries (if using dried blueberries, then it is recommended to put them a bit later than figs).

    Stir the kosher product for another five minutes (if necessary add some more sugar or water). The kosher drink should now have a rich, not watery taste.

    Symbolism of kosher drinks:

    During Sukkot according to kosher rules we are usually holding “Arba Minim” in our hands – a set of four species (palm branch, myrtle, willow and a family of citrus fruit resembling a lemon – etrog), which represent the 4 sorts of Jews. This Kosher drink is a symbol of Arba Minim, where figs symbolize the palm, blueberries (in Italian called Myrtile) – myrtle, water – willow, lemon – etrog. Sugar is symbol of joy and sweetness of the holiday.

      

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    SWEET'N'SOUR KOSHER MEAT

    Thursday, October 1st, 2009

    Ingredients for cooking kosher meat:

    1. Kosher meat 1.5kg
    2. 500g of prunes
    3. 100g of tomato puree
    4. 3-4 onions
    5. 5 potatoes
    6. 6-8 garlic cloves
    7. 1 cup of broth
    8. 1 spoon of honey
    9. 3 spoons of ginger
    10. 3 spoons of vinegar
    11. 4 spoons of brandy
    12. Sugar by taste
    13. Allspice, bay leaf

     

    Cooking Jewish meat:

    Meat should be cut into small pieces, and fried in vegetable oil with adding salt, put kosher meat into stewpot, pour broth and put the stew on low heat. The Jewish kosher food should be stewed for about 45 minutes.

     Boil five potatoes, each of them should be cut into 4 pieces.

     Cut onion, garlic, and ginger and mix the kosher products together. Put on fry pan and fry using vegetable oil. In process of frying add vinegar, sugar, tomato puree and honey. Leave it on fire for 2 minutes and then add brandy, mix and remove from fire. Add mixture to stewed kosher meat.

     Add potatoes, prunes, pepper, and bay leaf.

     Put the kosher meat into the oven and cook under the lid until ready.

     Symbolism of the kosher recipe:

    The combination of joy and sorrow is a typical outlook for the Jewish people which is reflected in the meaning of kosher, so sweet-sour taste of meat corresponds with this. Sweet and alcoholic moments in the taste of kosher meat create a feeling of happiness, while bitter and sour tastes of the kosher meal reflect the sadness in commemoration for the destruction of Jerusalem.

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    KOSHER MEAL – PAELLA

    Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

    Ingredients for cooking kosher gourmet food with this kosher recipe:

    Kosher meats:

    Veal, veal stuffing, fish, chicken and chicken fat.

     Spices and sauces for kosher meal:

    Vegetable oil, some water, white wine, pepper, bouillon, lemon juice, other spices, pistachio nuts and herbs.

     Vegetable kosher products:

    Onion, greens, lentils, tomatoes, peas, corn, potatoes,  

    Rice, pasta.

     Cooking kosher gourmet food:

    Put veal bones, head, spine and tail of the fish, chopped greens in a saucepan and cook meat and kosher fish over low heat.

     In a deep pan melt some kosher chicken fat with vegetable oil and fry the chicken, cut into small pieces, in this mixture. Pour a little water and some white kosher wine. Stew until ready.

     Cook the lentils. Peel and chop the tomatoes. Stew sliced pieces of kosher fish and cover with fresh lemon juice for 10 minutes.

     Cut meat into small pieces and fry until it turns brown, add water and stew the kosher meal until ready.

     Then fry the diced onions and peppers and a head of garlic, divided into cloves. Add rice, put in a saucepan and stew for five minutes on low heat. Add some bouillon, and when the rice swells, add some more, also add lentils (which should be pre-cooked) and chopped and peeled tomatoes, pieces of kosher fish (previously fried and put into lemon juice), and kosher meat.

     After 10 minutes add some peas, chicken, boiled seeds of corn, boiled potatoes, chopped into cubes, some cooked pasta, veal stuffing, add spices and put the kosher meal in the oven to sit for 10 minutes.

     Sprinkle with pistachio nuts, chopped herbs and serve the kosher meal in a beautiful dish.

     With such Jewish cooking recipes keeping kosher has become easy!

     Symbolism of this Jewish kosher food:

    This kosher dish is a symbol of Jewish people that live all over the world and Jews from different countries and different areas of each country have their own traditions and tastes. Paella is a perfect dish, which can combine lots of different foods and products and has a great taste.

     So as symbols of different ethnic groups of Jewish people we can name fish for Polish Jews, pistachio nuts for Turkish Jews, potatoes for Jews Slavic countries, pasta for Italian Jews, sweet pepper and tomatoes for Jews from Bulgaria, corn – Romanian Jews, wine for Jews from France and so on.

     Keeping kosher is an important Jewish tradition. You can also find a product that will be a symbol of the area, where you live and add it to your Paella and make the taste of kosher gourmet food even better!

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    KOSHER CHICKEN RECIPE

    Friday, September 25th, 2009

    As a start of this kosher chicken recipe, let us list the ingredients for kosher chicken:

    -       Chicken (or better cock) with about 1kg of weight

    -       Veal tongue

    -       400g of onion

    -       8-9 big mushrooms

    -       2 spoons of olive oil

    -       About 100g of cognac

    -       1 bottle of wine

    -       3 branches of thyme

    -       1 bay leaf

    -       1 garlic clove

    -       2 spoons of flour

    -       1 spoon of sugar

    -       50g of nuts

    -       Salt and pepper

     

    Cooking kosher chicken:

    To start kosher cooking, boil and cut the veal tongue.

     Chicken is one of the main kosher products. Cut chicken into 8 pieces, fry in a pan, then remove from the pan and put in a different dish.

     Divide onion into two equal piles, and then cut each onion into 4 pieces. Fry the onions and put them into the pan, where chicken was fried.

     Chop the mushrooms and add to the pan. Chop the garlic and add to the pan with onions and mushrooms. Put fried chicken on top, sprinkle with flour, spices and add the remaining of onion, then pour some brandy, mix the kosher meal well and put to stew on small fire for 10 minutes.

     After frying the kosher chicken, add some wine, salt, sugar and pepper and stew for another 45 minutes. Then pull out parts of chicken and put on the sliced tongue. Evaporate half of the sauce and put the chicken on the veal tongue.

     Enjoy eating kosher food!

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    Kosher Recipes

    Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

    Kosher Recipes

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