Kosher Recipes

Our Favorite Dessert Pesach Recipes

2010-04-01T09:43:00.001-04:00

If you’re looking to satisfy your sweet tooth over Pesach, you can do more than spreading chocolate over a piece of matzo. Read on for some top dessert recipes for Passover from www.kosherista.com.

Chocolate Chip Banana Cake (Gebrokts)

Kids and adults alike will enjoy this sweet treat loaded with potassium. Aside from the titular ingredients, this cake features cake meal, eggs, sugar, and salt, in addition to citrus flavors from lemon juice and a grated orange rind.

Nut Cake (Non Gebrokts)

With only five ingredients and 10 minutes of prep time, this delicious and Pesach-friendly dessert tastes much more complex than it is. If you’ve got eggs, ground nuts, sugar, oil, and lemon juice around the house, this one’s a no-brainer!

Chocolate Coffee Cake (Gebrokts)

For a super-soft coffee cake with a chocolate kick (and essence of vanilla), you can’t go wrong with this recipe from Kosherista. Add a cup of pecans for extra flavor and crunch!

Apple Tea Cakes with Matzo (Gebrokts)

It’s possible to have a sweet tooth without having a super-sweet tooth, and there are Pesach recipes with semi-sweet preferences in mind. Made with Granny Smith apples, these matzo cakes are nice and tart, but you can sweeten them up with a dish of Passover ice cream for the kids.

Avocado Recipes for Passover

2010-03-22T09:01:00.001-04:00

It’s hard to browse Passover recipes without encountering avocado, a unique and healthy fruit that is a great kosher component to any dish. Avocados have been shown to decrease cholesterol while improving skin and hair health. They are rich in healthy fats, providing a great meat substitute for kosher vegetarians. Plus, avocados are loaded with potassium (more than bananas!), B vitamins, vitamin E, vitamin K, and fiber.

Let’s take a look at two of our favorite avocado recipes for Passover:

Israeli Avocado Spread

You’re going to love this tasty guacamole derivative made of avocados, chopped hard-boiled eggs, onion, mayonnaise, mustard, salt and pepper, and garlic powder! We got this recipe for Shaina on www.Kosherista.com, who learned to add eggs from her cousins in Jerusalem.

Mango Avocado Salad

Submitted by Dini at Kosherista, this easy-to-prepare salad features avocado, mango, and red onion, with a simple dressing made of olive oil and lemon juice. Although delicious year round, this dish is perfect for people looking for non-gebrokts recipes for Passover. Another variety of this salad, submitted by Esther, substitutes mini cucumbers (kirby or crunchy) in place of the mango.

Passover Recipes: Orange You Glad You Made Tzimmes?

2010-03-15T09:01:00.002-04:00

We’re continuing our discussion of Passover recipes with tzimmes, a traditional Jewish dish over served on Rosh Hashanah (but appropriate for Passover). Tzimmes can feature a variety of different ingredients, but the common denominator seems to be orange, as the dish’s base ingredient is always either sliced carrots or sweet potatoes. Common secondary ingredients include: dried fruit such as raisins, prunes, and apricots, as well as meat, most commonly brisket.

Over at www.kosherista.com, Olivia submitted a neat recipe for a carrot-based tzimmes soufflé. With a prep time of only 15 minutes, this dish gets much of its flavor from the added crushed pineapple, lemon juice, and orange juice. You can prepare this soufflé in a casserole dish, or serve portions in individual ramekins (crème brûlée style). For a sweet potato-based option, try the classic tzimmes dish featuring sweets, prunes, apricots, honey, and cinnamon.

Looking for more carrot-based recipes for Passover? We recommend cranberry glazed carrots (great for Passover, Thanksgiving, and everything in between). You might also try the carrot-dill soup, which is as exquisitely orange as it is delicious.

Pesach Recipes for Eating Gebrokts and Non-Gebrokts

2010-03-08T09:01:00.001-05:00

Passover is almost here, which means it's time to start thinking about Pesach recipes to prepare during the holidays. Below are four of our favorite recipes for passover.

Onion Roasted Sweet Potatoes (Gebrokts)

A delicious variation on traditional sweet potatoes, these kosher sweet potatoes are cooked with chopped onions and onion soup mix to ensure an interesting flavor profile.

Decadent Fudge Brownies (Gebrokts)

Looking for something a little sweet this Passover? Featuring a tasty blend of walnuts, coffee, and cocoa powder, these fudge brownies are enjoyable all year round.

Mediterranean Salmon (Non-Gebrokts)

Prepared with red pepper, tomato, and garlic cloves, this international salmon dish will provide a hearty meal at any Pesach dinner. And it's healthy too!

Passover Sponge Cake (Non-Gebrokts)

One of the classic Passover recipes, this sponge cake involves potato starch, eggs, lemon juice, and sugar. It's easy to make, and kids love it!

What's it mean to eat gebrokts?

Yiddish for “broken,” gebrokt describes Passover food that is prepared with matzah or matzah meal. Specifically, people who abstain from eating gebrokts are looking to avoid matzah that has touched water after being baked. The concern is that the matzah might have had small amounts of dry flour in it that did not bake into the dough, which would become chametz (bread) upon contact with water.

For more gebrokts and non-gebrokts recipes for passover, check out www.kosherista.com.

Kosher Recipes: Sweet Kugel Dishes

2010-03-01T09:19:00.000-05:00

When you're looking for kosher recipes, you're going to see a lot of kugels. These Jewish casseroles are relatively simple to make and typically involve egg noodles or potatoes. Kugels have been around for centuries — and sometimes they taste like it.

To mix it up, we recommend turning this traditionally savory side dish into a sweet dessert. Check out these ideas from www.kosherista.com:

Sweet Potato Kugel

Straddling the fine line between dessert and side, this kugel dish will never get too sweet, since the recipe calls for one sweet potato and one regular. Carrot, apple, and lemon round out the kugel for an interesting, delectable taste.

California Noodle Kugel

Featuring a classic egg noodle base, this kugel gets its sweetness from the fresh-squeezed orange juice, golden raisins, and sugar required for preparation. There's a little bitterness in there too, as you'll be incorporating granny smith apples and a splash of lemon juice.

Yerushalayim Kugel

Say that three times fast! A favorite among kosher food recipes, this kugel boasts an irresistible combination of black pepper and caramelized sugar. Serve hot or cold — just don't try to share it with too many people!

Dinner Party Kosher Recipes

2010-02-23T10:53:00.002-05:00

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

2010-02-15T13:13:00.003-05:00

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!

2010-02-11T06:01:00.000-05:00

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!

Welcome to Kosherista Blog!

2010-02-10T11:21:00.000-05:00

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!