List of Recipes Using Non Processed Foods

All of these recipes, most which are linked to in this post, feature minimal or basic ingredients. They originally appeared on cookkosher.com.

Mock Babaganoush

Ingredients

  • 1 large eggplant
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice
  • 2 cups oil
  • ¼ tsp salt

Instructions

  • With a fork pierce the eggplant on all sides. Cover with aluminum foil and place on oven rack. Bake at 400°F for 1 hour or until completely soft. Let cool. When cooled a bit, slice eggplant in half and scoop out inside of eggplant. For the recipe set aside ¾ cup of the eggplant.
  • In a food processor or blender blend garlic, egg and lemon juice. Blend very well. Gradually add oil in a thin stream until it emulsifies (like a mayonnaise consistency). Season with salt. Add ¾ cup eggplant filling. Blend well. Add more lemon juice and salt to taste. Season with a bit of crushed black pepper.

Notes

Do not add more than 1 tbsp of lemon juice in the beginning or the mixture will not emulsify well. When everything is done then add more lemon juice to your liking.
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Plum Chutney

This plum sauce tastes fabulous. It freezes well and can be doubled and tripled. Just expect the cooking time longer.
Author: Leah Schapira

Ingredients

  • 4 large plums
  • ½ small red onion, finely diced
  • 1 tbsp oil
  • 2 tbsp sugar
  • ¼ cup orange juice
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 pinch crushed black pepper

Instructions

  • Peel and dice the plums. Set aside.
  • Sauté the onion in oil on high for 2 minutes. Add the sugar and cook for a minute. Add the diced plums and cook for 2 minutes.
  • Add the orange juice, salt and pepper. Cook on high for 10 minutes or until plums are soft.

Notes

I use it as a dipping sauce or as a sauce to bake chicken in. You can also season ribs with spices. Bake covered for 1 ½ hours, glaze with the sauce and bake uncovered for ½ hour.
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Creamy Avocado Dressing

Tired of caesar salad? Try this creamy dressing. Toss it with romaine lettuce, corn chips, red onion and cherry tomatoes or whatever floats your boat.
Author: Leah Schapira

Ingredients

  • 1 ripe avocado, peeled and cubed
  • ½ cup mayonnaise
  • cup oil
  • 5 – 6 tbsp water
  • 3 tbsp lemon juice
  • 2 clove garlic
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ¼ tsp hot pepper sauce

Instructions

  • Blend all ingredient together.
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Falsche Fish

Imitation gefilte fish. It tastes so similar you would never know the difference. This is my grandmothers recipes, and I have no idea how much it yields.
Author: Leah Schapira

Ingredients

Patties:

  • 3 lbs ground turkey
  • 1 lb ground chicken
  • 2 cooked potatoes
  • 2 carrots, peeled and grated
  • 1 onion, minced
  • 1 parsnip, peeled and grated
  • ¾ cup sugar
  • 1 tbsp salt
  • 4 eggs
  • ½ cup oil
  • 1 tsp pepper

Cooking Liquid:

  • 2 onions, sliced
  • 3 carrots, sliced
  • 5 whole peppercorns
  • 1 cup sugar

Instructions

  • Knead all ingredients for the patties together until thoroughly combined. Refrigerate for 1 hour.
  • Then, in a large pot, add onions, carrots, peppercorns, and sugar. Fill pot with water and bring to a boil over high heat.
  • With wet hands, form balls or patties and drop into the boiling water. Cook covered for 2 ½ to 3 hours.
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Meat with Caramelized Pearl Onions

This recipe originally appeared in Fresh & Easy KOSHER COOKING. These cuts of meats are best served rewarmed. The longer you cook them the more succulent they will be.

Ingredients

  • 3 lbs beef stew *
  • 2 tbsp oil
  • 1 large carrot
  • 1 large onion, diced
  • 1 tsp salt
  • ¼ tsp pepper
  • 2 tbsp potato starch
  • 2 cups red wine
  • 3 cups chicken soup stock
  • 2 cloves garlic, optional
  • 18 – 24 pearl onions

Instructions

  • Pat beef stew dry with a paper towel. Brown meat with the 2 tbsp oil on all sides. Remove and set aside.
  • Peel and thinly slice carrot. Sauté carrots and onion until onions are soft. Add meat back to the pot and season with salt and pepper.
  • Stir in the potato starch and mix everything well together.
  • Add wine, stock and optional garlic. Bring to a simmer and cook for 1 ½ hours.
  • Add onions to the meat and continue cooking for an additional 45 minutes to 1 hour.

Notes

* Beef stew is cut up pieces of meat from mock tender meat (sometimes called shoulder kalichol). You can also use chuck cut into small squares.
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Potato Chip Chicken Strips

A delicious very moist easy chicken dinner which was a huge hit with the adults and children alike. And best of all no frying-great combination! This is from the cookbook Kosher Elegance by Efrat Lobfroind. I baked it longer than the original recipe called for. You can serve this with any sauce on the side. I made a sweet chili sauce-WOW!
Author: CookMama

Ingredients

  • 8 chicken breasts
  • ¾ cup flour
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 – 2 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp paprika
  • 1 clove garlic, crushed
  • 1 tbsp mustard
  • crushed potato chips

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 350℉. Prepare 3 bowls.
  • Place flour in the first bowl. Crush potato chips into small pieces and place in the second bowl. Beat the eggs with the rest of the ingredients in the third bowl.
  • Cut chicken breasts into thin strips (about 1 inch). Dip each piece into flour then egg mixture and finally in potato chips. Coat very well.
  • Place on baking tray lined with parchment paper. Bake for 15-20 minutes.
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Veal in White Wine Sauce

I use this recipe for holiday and special occasion meals. You can use any cut of veal slices. I prefer to use veal chops. It just looks more elegant and special. My family and guests love it. I've even made this recipe using chicken cutlets. Just reduce the amount of time it bakes.
Author: CookMama

Ingredients

  • 6 veal chops
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • oil
  • 1 large onion, diced
  • 1 8oz can sliced mushrooms, drained
  • ¾ cup good quality white wine
  • 2 tbsp chicken soup mix
  • sprinkle of fresh cut parsley
  • flour or potato starch

Instructions

  • Season veal with salt and pepper. Fry quickly on both sides in frying pan with some oil.
  • Remove from pan and place in a roasting pan.
  • In the same frying pan (do not wash it out. Use the oil from the veal) sauté onion until soft. Add drained mushrooms and let cook 5 minutes. Continue to add the rest of the ingredients except for the flour and cook another 5 minutes. Keep mixing.
  • Slowly mix in the flour and cook until sauce thickens.
  • Pour sauce over veal chops. Cover and bake at 350℉ for 1 1/2-2 hours. Uncover and bake an additional 20 minutes.
  • If you want to freeze and serve at a later time, do not uncover. Bake until ready to serve.
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Shnitzel Nuggets

Ingredients

  • 1 lb chicken cutlets, cut into cubes

Batter:

  • 1 cup potato starch
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tbsp paprika
  • ½ cup water
  • 2 tsp oil
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp baking powder

Instructions

  • Mix the batter ingredients together.
  • Pat chicken dry and dip into batter. Fry on both sides until golden and ready.
  • Serve with a dipping sauce.

Notes

* The baking powder is optional, but if you use it it add a lot to the batter.
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Yerushalmi Noodle Kugel

When we have a favorite recipe all year long we can’t help but “passoverize” it… and it's possible. Yes, even noodle kugel.
Author: Tilly Roth

Ingredients

Crepes:

  • 9 eggs
  • 9 tbsp potato starch
  • ¾ cup water
  • 1 pinch salt

Kugel:

  • 18 – 20 crepe leaves
  • ¾ cup oil
  • 1 ½ cups sugar, divided
  • 5 cups warm water
  • 2 tsp salt
  • ½ tsp black pepper
  • 4 large eggs, beaten

Instructions

To prepare the crepe leaves:

  • Combine eggs, potato starch, water and salt using an immersion blender. Grease a 10-inch skillet. Heat skillet over high heat. Pour some crepe batter into pan, turning pan to coat bottom. Cook for 1 minute or until bottom sets. Flip and cook an additional 30 seconds. Repeat with remaining batter.
  • Cut crepe leaves into medium thin strips (roll 8 leaves together jelly roll style and slice). Lay them out on a baking sheet and let dry 6 hours or overnight.

To prepare the kugel:

  • Preheat oven to 350°F. Thoroughly grease a medium sized bundt pan with oil or nonstick cooking spray.
  • In a large pot, heat the oil with ½ cup sugar. Heat until sugar turns golden brown. Remove from heat.
  • Add 5 cups warm water. Return to heat and raise to high, bringing liquid to a boil.
  • Add the sliced crepes and remaining 1 cup of sugar + salt and pepper. Cook for 5-10 minutes and let cool. Add the beaten eggs, incorporating very quickly into the noodles.
  • Fill bundt pan ¾ of the way full or place in 2 nine" round pans. Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes.
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Pesach Eggrolls

This is the filling for mock egg rolls. * Use this crepe recipe for the eggrolls and serve them with duck sauce. Kohlrabi is a great substitute if you don't use cabbage on Pesach.
Servings: 20 eggrolls
Author: Leah Schapira

Ingredients

  • 2 onions, diced
  • 3 tbsp oil
  • 4 carrots
  • 1 large kohlrabi
  • fresh ginger, to taste
  • salt and pepper, to taste

Instructions

  • Sauté onions in oil.
  • Shred the carrots with the kohlrabi. Add to the sautéed onions.
  • Cook until softened, mixing occasionally.
  • Season with ginger, salt and pepper.
  • Place 1-2 tbsp of filling in the center (a bit off center closer to you) of a crepe. I prefer to use 9 inch crepes or smaller.
  • Roll up bottom of crepe covering the filling. Tuck in both sides and continue rolling to form a tight roll.
  • You can freeze these at this point.
  • Fry seem side down first. Turn over and fry the other sides. Serve with duck sauce.
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Imitation Cabbage and Noodles

A real Hungarian side dish. It's sacred to serve cabbage and noodles in most Hungarian homes. Not to miss out, here is a version for Pesach too.
Author: Leah Schapira

Ingredients

  • 2 large onions, diced
  • 3 – 4 tbsp oil
  • 4 kohlrabi, peeled and shredded
  • 12 Pesach crepe leaves
  • salt and pepper, to taste

Instructions

  • Sauté onions in oil for 5 minutes.
  • Add the shredded kohlrabi and cook until very soft.
  • Meanwhile cut the crepes into small squares.
  • Add to the sautéed onions and kohlrabi. Season with salt and pepper.
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Wafer Layer Cake

I love this cake. It's elegant and a perfect dessert.

Ingredients

Cake:

  • 12 egg whites
  • 1 ½ cups sugar
  • 2 tbsp potato starch
  • 1 ½ cups ground filberts (hazelnuts)
  • 1 ½ cups ground almonds

Cream:

  • 12 yolks
  • 1 ½ cups sugar
  • 2 ½ tsp cocoa (or 4 tbsp coffee diluted in 3 tbsp water)
  • 1 ½ cups oil

Instructions

Cake:

  • Beat egg whites gradually adding sugar. Slowly add the potato starch and nuts. Line 2 cookie sheets with baking paper and divide cake batter between both pans (filling ¾ full). Bake in a preheated oven for 25-35 minutes at 350°F.

Cream:

  • Beat egg yolks gradually adding sugar. Add remaining ingredients. Place in a double boiler and cook stirring occasionally for 20-30 minutes.

Assemble:

  • Spread ½ of the cream over one sheet cake. Peel baking paper off the second cake and place over creamed cake. Spread remaining cream over top cake. Garnish with ground nuts and slivered almonds.
  • Freeze. Cut into small bars or squares and refreeze. To serve, let cake sit out 5 minutes and serve semi frozen.
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Apple Pie

Although the ingredients are nothing unusual it yields a high & addictive pie. Dare we say one of the best Passover pies. My aunt has a non Jewish helper; she knows the family recipes better than my aunt and to make herself indispensable she doesn't give them out. If she does give a recipe out, something is always missing. When I called her for this recipe, it didn't seem right but after some memory digging and a couple of phone calls later, I assembled it the way it was supposed to be! Share it. Thats sweet revenge!

Ingredients

  • 5 Granny Smith apples
  • ½ cup potato starch
  • 5 eggs
  • ½ cup oil
  • 1 cup sugar
  • ¾ tsp cinnamon
  • 1 tsp vanilla sugar

Topping:

  • 1 ¾ cups coarsely chopped walnuts (not ground)
  • ⅓ – ½ cup sugar

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350°F.
  • Peel, core apples and slice into rings.
  • In a large mixing bowl, combine the potato starch, eggs, oil, sugar, cinnamon and vanilla. Add apples to the bowl and coat well.
  • Combine walnuts and sugar. Place half of the topping on the bottom of a round pan or pyrex. Layer apples neatly. Pour remaining egg mixture on top.
  • Let mixture settle into the apples the sprinkle with remaining topping.
  • Bake uncovered for 1 hour or until golden brown. If top browns too fast, cover with foil and continue to bake.
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Chocolate Cookies

Cookies and a lot of cookies keeps everyone happy between meals.

Ingredients

  • 3 egg whites
  • 1 cup sugar
  • tsp salt
  • 1 tsp vanilla sugar
  • 2 tsp water
  • 3 tbsp cocoa

Instructions

  • Beat the egg whites until fluffy. Add the sugar beating well until stiff and shiny.
  • Gradually add remaining ingredients.
  • Spoon out small circles on a lined cookie sheet.
  • Bake at 225°F for 1 hour or until dry.
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Breakfast Cheesecake

My mother serves this for breakfast every Shabbos morning and my family polishes two cakes off completely. You can use reduced fat cream cheese and reduced fat sour cream for a lighter version of the cheesecake. You can also serve this in a pyrex baking dish or in a spring form pan for a more elegant presentation.” Although this recipe makes three pies this cheesecake freezes well so simply wrap the extras if there are any and freeze to enjoy later. Recipe from Fresh & Easy KOSHER COOKING
Author: Leah Schapira

Ingredients

  • 1 lb farmer cheese
  • 1 ½ cups sour cream (¾ container)
  • 1 (8 oz) whipped cream cheese
  • 6 large eggs, separated
  • ¼ cup orange juice
  • 1 tbsp vanilla sugar
  • 1 ½ cups sugar, divided
  • 3 heaping tbsp flour
  • 3 round graham cracker pie shells

Sour Cream Topping:

  • 1 ½ cups sour cream (¾ container)
  • 1 tbsp vanilla sugar
  • 1 tbsp sugar

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350°F.
  • In a large bowl using a spoon mix farmer cheese, sour cream and cream cheese. Add 6 egg yolks, orange juice, vanilla sugar and ¾ cup sugar. Mix till incorporated. Add flour.
  • In a mixer, beat egg whites until stiff peaks form. Gradually add the remaining ¾ cup sugar.
  • Fold beaten whites into the cheese mixture. Divide filling into the 3 pie shells.
  • Bake for 40 minutes. The cheesecakes should be slightly golden on the edges.
  • To prepare topping, combine sour cream and sugars.
  • Remove cheesecakes from oven and let cool 5 minutes. When still warm, divide the sour cream topping between the three cheesecakes. With the back of a spoon, starting from the center, circle the topping across the top until it covers the entire cake.
  • If serving for dessert, you can alternatively drizzle dulce de leche, caramel or desired topping.
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3 responses to “List of Recipes Using Non Processed Foods”

  1. Becky Avatar
    Becky

    The cheesecake recipe doesn’t seem to e converted for Pesach?

  2.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    The potato chip cutlets were not converted for pesach. It calls for flour and mustard. Is there a Pesach version?

  3. chanilareta Avatar
    chanilareta

    lol i noticed the flour and mustard also

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