Content tagged with “Jewish”

Temple Emanu-El Brisket
This brisket recipe comes from Roberta Greenberg, the longtime assistant to the rabbis at Temple Emanu-El, a well-known...

Potato-Pear Latkes
It’s easy to make crispy latkes for Hanukkah without oodles of oil. Adding shredded pears to the traditional potato...

Golden Turmeric Latkes with Applesauce
These crispy-on-the-outside-and-tender-on-the-inside latkes are delicious paired with a subtly spicy clove-scented...

Zwieback Cottage Cheese Torte
Cheesecakes and other dairy treats are customary for the springtime Jewish festival of Shavuoth.

Winter Squash & Chicken Tzimmes
Fresh orange juice and cinnamon infuse this winter squash and chicken stew. Tzimmes (pronounced "tsim-iss")...

Cottage Cheese Rugelach
Expect some of the walnut-currant filling to ooze out of these delights during baking, but don't worry—there will...

Matzo Ball Soup
Floating in a flavorful broth, our matzo balls are light and fluffy but bound together with whisked eggs and only a...

Mandelbrot
Mandelbrot is Yiddish for almond bread, and the almond-rich dough in this recipe is shaped like a loaf and baked. Like...

Sweet & Savory Beef Stew
This beef stew for two replicates the flavors in tzimmes, a sweet stew traditionally served at Rosh Hashanah to start...

Smoked Trout Salad
The fast of Yom Kippur is often broken with smoked fish as in this trout salad. This easy dinner, which can be made...

Georgian Stuffed Prunes
Serve these prunes as a dessert or to accompany roast meat. The recipe is adapted from Primorski Restaurant, Brighton...

Cheese Blintzes
Using low-fat dairy products, cutting down on egg yolks and baking the filled pancakes, rather than frying them,...

Pesto Latkes
This twist on a classic latke is baked in a muffin tin, avoiding lots of oil for frying. One caveat: There's no...

Flourless Sponge Cake
A perfect ending to a Passover seder.

Flourless Chocolate Torte
A treasured family recipe for Passover chocolate-apple torte, updated to be lower in fat and still incredibly rich-...

Chocolate Walnut Cake
This decadent, omega-3-rich cake was inspired by flourless Passover nut cakes. It's better if it sits overnight so...

Ida's Mandelbrot
A tender-crisp, walnut-studded cookie (traditionally made with almonds, or mandel in Yiddish) adapted from a 1950s...

Crispy Potato Latkes
It is a holiday tradition to fry latkes in hot oil, but here shredded potato-and-onion pancakes get a coating of matzo...

Hamantashen
The traditional cookie for Purim, hamantashen is Yiddish for "Haman's pockets." They are meant to recall...

Simple Noodle Kugel
Several readers challenged our test kitchen to come up with a tasty, but healthful, revival of a Jewish dish that...

Pear Cranberry Sauce
This dazzling pink pear & cranberry sauce has a perfect balance of tart and sweet tastes. It stands in for the...

Dried Fruit Compote
This hearty dessert is the perfect sweet ending to a Hanukkah meal. Try serving it with plain yogurt, sweetened sour...

Haroset Cake with Zabaglione Sauce
Haroset is a fruit-and-wine concoction eaten during the Passover Seder and said to represent the mortar that the...