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!