Showing entries from: Passover – Ashkenazi

The recipes in this category are Kosher for Ashkenazi Passover. They do not contain chametz or kitniyot.

To learn more about the Jewish Passover holiday, click here. To learn more about the Passover kosher laws, click here. Note that I do not consider quinoa or spices like cumin and coriander to be kitniyot, so they may appear here.

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Yukon Gold Garlic Rosemary Mash

Learn to make delicious garlic mashed potatoes scented with fresh rosemary. Dairy or Pareve, Kosher for Passover. Read More

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Seared Salmon with Creamy Dill Sauce

Recipe for crispy seared salmon topped with a creamy fresh dill sauce. Stove to table in 20 minutes. Healthy, gluten free, kosher for Passover. Read More

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Savory Herb Braised Brisket

Simple recipe for mouthwatering Savory Herb Braised Brisket with fresh herbs. Slow cooked tender holiday brisket. Kosher for Passover, Meat. Read More

Whitefish salad on egg bagel with lox, cream cheese, and sliced onion

Whitefish Salad

The history of smoked fish and appetizing. Learn a recipe for Jewish whitefish salad with celery and herbs. Kosher, dairy or pareve. Read More

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Passover Chicken Schnitzel

Recipe for crispy golden fried Chicken Schnitzel chicken breasts using matzo meal and seasonings. KFP, Kosher for Passover/Pesach, meat. Read More

Hawayej Spice Blend

Hawayej Spice Blend

How to make hawayej spice blend from scratch using whole spices and seeds, then Read More

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Sweet Potato Coconut Chremslach

Thanksgiving is very close to the first night of Hanukkah this year, which means both holidays are simultaneously on my mind! Last week I came up with a fun little dish that combines the two holiday traditions into one tasty … Read More

Moroccan Lemon Chicken with Olives

Moroccan Lemon Chicken with Olives

Learn to make traditional kosher Moroccan Lemon Chicken with Olives. Slow simmered, tender chicken with preserved lemon, olives, and spices. Read More

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How to Roast Garlic

Learn a simple method for oven-roasting garlic. Makes milder, sweeter, caramelized garlic cloves that add flavor and depth to your recipes. Read More

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Chopped Liver

How to make traditional Ashkenazi Jewish chopped liver with schmaltz and gribenes. Kosher, meat. Read More

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Schmaltz and Gribenes

How to render chicken fat to create the luscious golden cooking oil known as schmaltz, as well as crispy and delicious gribenes. Kosher, Jewish. Read More

Strawberry Topping

Strawberry Topping

How to make a fresh strawberry topping for ice cream, blintzes, cheesecake, waffles, anything! Kosher, pareve, gluten free, dairy free. Read More

Unstuffed Cabbage

Unstuffed Cabbage

Delicious recipe for Unstuffed Cabbage, an easier way to capture the flavor of savory stuffed cabbage without all the work. Kosher for Passover. Read More

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Sephardic Charoset Truffles

Learn to make Sephardic Charoset Truffles from a Moroccan recipe. Exotic treat for the Seder. Kosher for Passover, Pareve, Vegan, Gluten Free Read More

Tishpishti

Tishpishti

Our next Sephardic dessert originated in Turkey. The word for the dish, Tishpishti, has a number of different English spellings (tishpitti, tezpishti, etc.). Jews adopted the cake because, like macaroons, it is generally unleavened and can be eaten during Passover. … Read More

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Lemony Almond Macaroons

Learn to make Lemony Almond Macaroons & learn the Italian history of macaroons. Inspired by Sephardic Jewish tradition. Kosher for Pesach, pareve Read More

Marak Perot

Marak Perot (Compote) – Fruit Soup

In January, I blogged about a traditional Shabbat dinner that I cooked with my friends Etti and Bella Hadar. Etti had a family a memoir written by her late uncle, Dov Shimon Levin, a soldier in the Jewish Infantry Brigade … Read More

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Mami’s Sopita – Moroccan Vegetable Soup

Delicious Moroccan soup, a vegan gluten free alternative to matzo ball soup. Zucchini, butternut squash, yams, sage, thyme. Kosher for Passover. Read More

Ashkephardic Charoset

Ashkephardic Charoset

Charoset pureed with dates, apples, walnuts, raisins, banana, sweet wine, cinnamon. Blending of Ashkenazi, Sephardic traditions. Kosher, Pesach Read More

Spiced Charoset with Candied Walnuts

Spiced Charoset with Candied Walnuts

Charoset is an integral part of Jewish Passover cuisine. It is used as a blessing for the Seder, to remind us of the mortar the Jewish slaves of Egypt were forced to work with before they were freed from bondage. … Read More