You will want to eat it every day of Hanukkah and beyond! The most comforting, satisfying and easy to make dish. There is no strict
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Potato Pancakes (Latkes)
Ingredients:
- Potatos (starchy) – 4 medium Yucon Gold
- Eggs – 2
- Shallot or small onion (optional)- 1
- Garlic (optional) – 2 cloves
- Salt 1/2 tsp, pepper 1/4 tsp
Directions:
- Peel and grind potatoes
- Add eggs
- Add finely chopped shallot and garlic
- Add salt and pepper
- Mix everything well with fork
- Potato will release a lot of water, don’t discard it! Instead – mix it in every time you spoon your pancakes!
- Heat non stick or stainless steel pan to little under medium high
- Pour 2 tbsp of vegetable oil into a pan, add 1/2 butter
- Measure pancakes with tablespoon.
- Fry for about 3 minutes (or until golden brown) on each side.
- Taste for salt and adjust as needed
- Maintain heat under medium high so that the potatoes cooks through before burns outside.
- Add oil and butter as you go
Good Tuna Salad
The salad is good, but there must be good tuna. If you have really good Spanish or Italian tuna in olive oil, this would be
Real Babaganaush
Has to be with tahini, not mayonnaise, not yogurt.
Ingredients:
- Baked or grilled eggplant
- Tahini
- Olive oil
- Garlic
- Lemon juice
- Cilantro
Directions:
- Grill or bake eggplant till fully cooked and soft
- Let it cool completely, peel the skin and drain extra liquid
- Put on the board, chop finely, put in the bowl
- Add tahini paste, olive oil, lemon juice, smashed garlic
- Add salt, pepper and finely chopped cilantro (optional)
- Mix well, taste
New Soup is born
I am always in a quest of new soup recipe. This one is a cross of broccoli cheddar and kale potato soup. Took 20 minutes
Spring Salad
Made of rainbow carrots shaved with vegetable peeler. Dressing – tahini, olive oil, lemon juice. Whisk well! Garnish – feta cheese, roasted sliced almonds. All
Fish – fast and fabulous!
Food has to be tasty! The same applies to healthy food – it’s not necessarily steamed vegetables. These are several variations of fish – all
Brisket Alternative
It is turkey alternative for those who avoid red meat. And with this dish – they won’t lose much. Hard to believe that lean dry
Celebrate Pumpkin
It is sweet, but versatile, works with practically everything – from appetizers to desserts, with soups, raviolis, and meatloaf in between. And makes everything taste
Pumpkin Gnocchi
Ingredients:
- Roasted butternut squash puree – 2-3 tbsp
- Farmer cheese (tvorog) – 1.2 lbs
- 1 egg (can be 2 if small)
- Flour – 4 tbsp
- Salt 1/3 tsp
- Butter – 2 tbsp for garnish + sage leaves
Directions:
- Place all the ingredients into a bowl and mix really well with spoon forming sticky dough
- Put the dough on well floured board, flour your hands too.
- It should be sticky, but workable, there is no need to kneed it, but you should be able to form about an inch wide log with your hands
- Cut the log into small pieces
- Put pot with water on medium to high heat, add 1 tsp of salt and bring to a boil. Do not reduce the heat!
- Place several dumplings into boiling water, don’t overcrowd the pot.
- Boil the dumplings for 2 minutes
- Remove from the pot with a skimmer spoon
- Melt butter in a small pan, add couple of sage leaves (or dry sage), pour over gnocchi
- Serve hot
