Dinner Party Kosher Recipes

I love to host dinner parties for my friends, but I’m always a little stuck when it comes to finding new kosher recipes. With my friend’s birthday coming up, I wanted to get away from the kosher meals that I usually make—grilled chicken, vegetarian lasagna, baked cod, poached salmon, macaroni salad—and try something different, something a little gourmet, that would really impress my friends. I happened to stumble upon www.kosherista.com and was overjoyed to be greeted with dozens of recipes for not only main courses, but also appetizers, sides and desserts.

For the appetizer, I decided I’d make fried onion rings. Yum. I’d only ever had onion rings at restaurants before, and was amazed at how easy it was to make them. I simply had to coat sliced onions with flour, olive oil and salt, fire up the deep fry, and voila, they were done! For the main course, I made pan fried sole with an amazingly delicious and easy to make tarragon-butter sauce, served with spiced butternut squash cubes on the side. Dessert was a chocolate mousse cake—sweet, fluffy, and rich—which I prepared a day in advance, to make things easy for myself. My friend loved her birthday dinner, and I loved cooking it. I can’t wait to try out more of Kosherista’s kosher food recipes!

Kid-Friendly Kosher Recipes

If you’ve ever had to cook kosher recipes for a child before, you know how picky they can be. I had a friend tell me that many nights, she ends up cooking two meals: one for the kids and one for the adults, just so everyone can eat something they like. Personally, I feel that it’s good for kids to expand their palates and try things they “don’t like”. Most of the time, it’s not that they don’t like the food; it’s that they’ve never tried it!

If you’re past the point of getting your kids to try new things and just want to eat one meal together that everyone will like, you should check out kosherista.com’s kid-friendly recipes. Last week, I was looking for kosher food recipes that could be enjoyed by my whole family and was so happy with the variety of results I found.

I decided on Coca Cola Chicken and the name alone got my kids interested in what I making. The recipe called for one quartered whole chicken, 2 cups of Coca Cola, 2 Tablespoons of apricot jam, 3 tablespoons of onion soup powder, 1 tablespoon of soy sauce, and 2 tablespoons of ketchup. I baked the chicken for two hours and ended up with a delicious dinner that didn’t get any groans from the little ones. The only downside is my kids ask every night if were having Coca Cola Chicken for dinner. Now I have to find a new kosher recipe that can top this!

Chicken Cacciatore From Kosherista.com!

I’m not a half-bad chef but sometimes cooking for two kids and their dad can be stressful, especially when the kids have after school programs and I have to drop them off and pick them up, back and forth, back and forth – it can really get hectic. So last Tuesday, the kids had JCC, and I had a nail appointment at two o’ clock, which I figured would be enough time, but I saw my friend and we started talking.

Before I knew it, it was three thirty, and I was going to be late to pick up the kids! So I rushed over to the school and picked them up, and they were fifteen minutes late for JCC. I got back home by four and in order to have dinner ready by six thirty, I still had to go food shopping and have it ready in little more than an hour.

So I went to kosherista.com to find a nice kosher recipe and then went grocery shopping to get the food. I decided on the chicken cacciatore, on the top rated page, which only called for four ingredients, and then I went back home to make it. Well by the time I went to pick up the kids, I had it planned so that the chicken would be just about done by the time we got back. And let me tell you, not only did the kids scrape their plates, but my husband (who’s a pretty picky eater himself) loved it! So now I know what to do whenever I’m in a bind – kosherista.com!

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Are you a busy Jewish mom? It can be difficult to find new and delicious Kosher recipes that your whole family will love. But here, on kosherista.com, we have recipes of all kinds that do just that. We have top rated recipes posted by moms like you and also by top rated chefs, so that you can save time and money.

We have recipes for every meal of the day, from fish to chicken, from meatloaf to pasta, soups and stews to more traditional fare like kugel and gefilte fish. From cookies to kid-friendly recipes, and from Passover recipes to more international dishes, you will be satisfied when you’re looking for what to make. Our recipes are healthy too, so you don’t have to worry about what you’re feeding your family or if you’ll have to go to the gym tomorrow.

Be sure to check back in on our blog to see tips on how to cook right, and hear real stories from people like you, who have used kosherista and love it. We know that kosherista.com will help you learn new recipes if you’re already a chef, and learn how to cook if you’re new to the kitchen. Either way, you’ll find something you like!