Kosher Dishes Recipes

At Kim Kushner’s home in New York City, the Passover dishes are a reflection of the cookbook author’s year-round cooking style: Simple, delicious food made with fresh, seasonal ingredients, whether it’s golden, butterflied chickens bathed in sumac and honey, or paprika-roasted salmon topped with crunchy squash and zucchini spirals.

Kushner learned to cook from her Moroccan-born mother, and fondly recalls summer visits to Israel and eating her grandmother’s shakshuka. Her cookbooks, including the recent “I Heart Kosher: Beautiful Recipes from My Kitchen” (Weldon Owen, $35), and wildly popular cooking classes have helped redefine kosher cuisine with a modern, farm-to-table approach.

That’s especially refreshing at Passover, when most of us Jewish home cooks make mad dashes to the grocery store kosher aisle, loading up on packaged goods for the week. This Passover, which begins on April 19, “I Heart Kosher” will inspire you to ditch the matzoh meal and cook simpler and better using Kushner’s make-ahead tips and ready-to-go marinades.

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We caught up with Kushner earlier this month to find out about her Passover meal plans and the latest trends in kosher cuisine.

A: For this book, I really took my tried-and-true recipes that I cook everyday. So it’s a little bit like being invited into my home. I’ve also included my tricks, rules, my tips. This is what you’ll find in my refrigerator if you open it up. And it was shot in my home and includes my family, so it’s overall a more personal book.

A: I really stick with my regular dishes that happen to work on Passover. Because in general, my cooking style is really simple. I find that people get overworked with Passover and thinking they need to buy all these special products, like matzoh meal. If you don’t use breadcrumbs in your cooking, then you won’t need to find a replacement.

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I love the Halibut with Blitzed Chickpeas & Carrots because it’s a one-pan meal. It’s your protein, side and veggie. And it just tastes like home to me, with the cilantro and paprika. Ashkenazi Jews don’t eat chickpeas on Passover so they can eliminate that part. I also love making the Simple Roasted Chickens with Hasselback Potatoes. You have the beautiful, golden chickens with the thin, fanned potatoes. It’s a crowd pleaser, and it can be doubled if you’re having more people over.

A: Dessert definitely gets tricky. But I still believe less is more. I keep it very simple, like chocolate-dipped figs with pistachios or honey-drizzled watermelon sprinkled with mint. If I have time I might make a flourless chocolate torte.

A: They’re recipes that double as sauces and dips, like my Spicy Peanut Sip or Dill & Lemon Sip, made with Dijon mustard and Greek yogurt. I use them as sauces to marinate fish or chicken but I can also put them out as dips with a crudite platter. So I just came up with the name sip. I’ve got a dozen and about seven made it into the book.

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A: (Laughs) I actually eat matzoh year-round. You’ll always find a box in my pantry. I like it with butter and jam. I serve my spicy Marinated Feta with baguette slices but it would work well with matzoh. I actually think Passover is a great time for shakshuka. I have two in my book, a traditional red shakshuka and a green one with kale and spinach. Just dip the matzoh right in there.

A: This genre has evolved and I think it’s following what’s happening in Israel right now. Going out to eat there is almost a show. And a return to rustic roots. There’s this movement started by (celebrity chef) Eyal Shani, who recently opened his first restaurants in New York, where he cooks in front of the guests and it’s all sort of wild. For instance, I’m planning a bar mitzvah for my son this summer in Israel. I was talking to the caterers and they’re going to have raw fish out for guests to select and have cooked right in from of them.

Overall, I think it’s a very exciting time because for so long, kosher food was not thought of in the best light. Now, there’s so much more available in the kosher world, so we’re showing people that you can work with fresh, seasonal and organic ingredients.I was excited to share my most popular recipes at the start of the year.  A few weeks later, this list of Jewish Food Bloggers You Should Follow in 2017 was published by Melinda at Kitchen Tested and it got me thinking.

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Or kosher meal ideas, then this post should help you conjure up some inspiration. I don’t have much of a sweet tooth so I am leading with the savory dishes including mains and sides.

Scroll to the bottom for some of the best Jewish desserts and baked goods that I’ve ever heard of.   And if there’s something you’d like me to add, leave me a note in the comments.

I am all too aware that Pesach is around the corner but after seeing this post, I can see you enjoying matzah all year round.  This blows the traditional matzah

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All the sweetness!  I want to bookmark this recipe and keep it for Rosh Hashanah.  I am a big fan of braised chicken (especially my braised chicken with golden beets and kale) because the meat is always so delicate and delicious.

Ribs are a treat in our house.  No matter how you cook them, ribs are a treat, and in all my years blogging, I’ve never shared my recipe!  This is an awesome main dish for a Friday night dinner or an excellent way to prepare dinner ahead of time.  I’d serve these with spicy potato wedges, grilled polenta, mashed sweet potatoes or rice to soak up the delicious gravy.

Can I tell you a secret?  I love chicken.  The perfect chicken dinner is so comforting and satisfying and Coq Au Vin is tied with Chicken Marbella when it comes to finding a way to my heart.

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All over my keyboard.  Don’t even both looking at my rib roast recipe when this exists.  Look how perfectly that meat is cooked.

Chicken Salad is a great way to use up leftover chicken, especially if you’re not making bibimbap.  I’ll try this next time we’re planning a picnic.

When this recipe debuted, it took the Internet by storm.  I remember the first time Chanie posted this, and I even made my own adaptation with of a Cranberry Hasselback Salami. And if you’re making Hasselback salami, potatoes or anything for that matter, Chanie’s chopstick hack is the 

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With a welcome break from all this meat and chicken, this nut crusted salmon is quick to prepare fresh or make ahead.  I’ve even served it cold with potato salad, lentils with fresh herbs, and a green salad.   For a Middle Eastern twist, try making dukkah crusted salmon.

Family recipes are always the best to conjure up memories and make everyone at your table feel loved.  Everything that Liz shares over at Kosher Like Me is absolutely divine, and just looking at these photos makes me want to rush into my kitchen and cook this hearty soup.

I love brussels sprouts and so does our oldest child.  I either roast them or saute them, but never have I thought to add nuts or dill.  I know that this dish is going to be served in our house 

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I do like a hearty stew any my father in law makes a Sephardic bean stew that is also full of flanken and great northern beans.  I think the main difference may be that he uses more tomato than this Syrian version.

Contest in 2013, she has continued to impress the entire kosher culinary community with her recipes.  It seems fitting that this popular recipe is also prepared in one of the most popular types of cookware of all time.

Have I ever mentioned that potatoes are my guilty pleasure?  I love roasted potatoes with a crispy edge and a soft delicate inside.  Scalloped potatoes give you plenty of surface area for that crispy texture with plenty of that soft and comforting potato goodness.  This recipe comes from the UK’s only kosher food blogger (to my knowledge).

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This is another chicken dish that is going to go into my dinner rotation. I find myself agreeing with Ronnie Fein on all things food.  Fresh figs are delicious, especially when they are in season.  Other than  my figs stuffed with garlic I haven’t cooked with them enough.  Keep this recipe in mind as fig season approaches.

I love chicken fingers and finding a baked, gluten free recipe that also has amazing flavor is a real treat.  As for the ketchup, it’s easier than you would have imagined.

Childhood comfort food is, I’d be willing to bet they’d say Shepards Pie.  Over at Spice and Zest is an excellent recipe for this classic dish.  If you want to mix things up a little, I make an awesome two-potato Shepards Pie too.

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This is one of the few (perhaps only) dairy recipes in this roundup of kosher recipes, and it’s sure earned its place.  Bourekas are tradition