Passover

Jewish cooks worldwide and over the centuries have sought ways to create food for Passover that is tasty despite the extra kosher restrictions placed on food during this weeklong holiday. These kosher-for-Passover recipes are the fruits of their labor.

Passover Cooking Substitutions
A list of ingredient substitutions that will help you adapt recipes for kosher for Passover Cooking.

Can I Substitute Passover Cake Meal for Matzo Meal?
An explanation of the difference between Passover cake meal and matzo meal, and how to substitute one for the other.

Passover Seder Guide
Each Passover, Jews worldwide take part in a special feast called the Passover Seder. The Passover Seder is the most widely observed Jewish practice today. Find Passover menus and recipes, as well as guides on cooking for Pesach Seder, setting the Passover Seder table, and preparing for Seder Plate.

Prepare Passover Seder Plate
Learn how to prepare the Passover Seder plate. These step-by-step instructions on how to make Pesach Seder plates are designed to help you prepare for this special Jewish holiday meal celebrating the Exodus from Egypt.

Favorite Passover Recipes
There are a handful of Passover recipes that everyone makes every year. Like matza itself, without these popular Pesach dishes, it just wouldn't be Passover. Find recipes for Passover Rolls, Matza Brei and more.

10 Steps to Preparing for Passover
These 10 Steps to Preparing for Passover will help make preparing for the Seder and holiday week a breeze.

10 Tips for Passover Cooking
These 10 Tips for Passover Cooking will help make preparing for the Seder and holiday week a breeze.

Is Quinoa Kosher for Passover?
Is quinoa kosher for Passover? Why is this health food becoming a Passover staple? Learn about quinoa and get kosher for Passover quinoa recipes.

What is Matzo?
Matzo is an unleavened bread that Jews eat during the Jewish Festival of Freedom called Passover (Pesach in Hebrew).

Matzo Recipe (Parve, Passover)
Every year Jews worldwide celebrate Passover by reliving the story of the Exodus from Egypt as if they themselves are going from slavery to freedom. The Israelite slaves fled Egypt in haste and had to eat their bread before it had time to rise. Thus, on Passover Jews eat matzo, which is unleavened bread. This Matzo Recipe can be used to make homemade matzo.

Passover Noodles - Carb Free, Low Fat (Dairy)
Nechama Cohen, Founder and Executive Director of the Jewish Diabetes Association (JDA) and author of EnLITEned Kosher Cooking, shares her healthy recipe for carb free, low fat Passover Noodles or Blintzes / Crepes. Once you get the hang of it, they are really easy to make.

Passover by Design, by Susie Fishbein
Susie Fishbein's Passover by Design cookbook contains over 130 Passover-adjusted recipes from her other cookbooks, as well as 30 brand-new Passover recipes, full-color photos and Passover decorating ideas.

About.com Busy Cooks: Passover Recipes
Linda Larsen, About Guide to Busy Cooks, has collected recipes with a bit of a twist which adhere to Passover guidelines and that are still quick, easy, and delicious.

About.com Cooking for Kids: Passover Recipes
Stephanie Gallagher, About.com Guide to Cooking with Kids, provides fun and easy Passover recipes for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Index of Passover Recipes
Jewish cooks worldwide and over the centuries have sought ways to create food for Passover that is tasty despite the extra kosher restrictions placed on food during this weeklong holiday. These kosher-for-Passover recipes are the fruits of their labor.

About.com Herbs and Spices: Kosher for Passover Herbs and Spices
Miri Rotkovitz, About.com Guide to Herbs and Spices, offers tips for finding and buying Kosher for Passover herbs and spices, and explains some of the special issues pertaining to the Kosher for Passover certification of herbs and spices.

About.com Judaism: Passover Recipes
About.com Guide to Judaism, Lisa Katz, offers recipes for Seder specialties (like charoset, matzo balls, soup, brisket, kugels and festive desserts) as well as for Passover staples (such as Passover sandwich rolls and matzah brei).

About.com Vegetarian Cuisine: Vegetarian and Vegan Passover Recipes
Jolinda Hackett, About Guide to Vegetarian Cuisine, has chosen the top six Vegetarian and Vegan Passover and Seder recipes.

Aish.com: Passover Cookbook
Aish.com offers a nice variety of clearly written and time tested recipes for Passover. Find recipes for charoset, fish, appetizers, soups, matzah balls, dairy lunches, entrees, kugels, veggies and desserts. The site also has Passover Menu suggestions for the Seder and the Yom Tov lunch.

EatingWell.com: Healthy Passover Menus and Recipes
The Passover recipes in this collection tend to use low-fat, low-salt and low-sugar ingredients.

Kashrut.com: Passover Recipes
In line with Passover cooking, this Passover recipe index has breadth but not depth. For instance, dairy dishes are matza lasagna, matza pizza and matza cheese kugel. There simply is a limit to the different types of lasagna that can be made with matza and kosher for Passover products.

MarthaStewart.com: Passover
Martha Stewart's Passover Site includes Passover recipes, cards, crafts, traditions, Seder, decorations, gifts and kids' activities.

OU.org: Passover Recipes
OU.org offers about a dozen wonderful Passover recipes, primarily from Eileen Goltz. The site is not well organized, but the recipes are worth the extra clicks.

OU.org: Passover Cooking Substitutions
Eileen Goltz has compiled over time and published in the OU site a complete list of Passover substitutes. Did you know that 1 cup of honey is equal to 1 1/4 cups of granulated sugar plus 1/4 cup water? And 1 cup of flour equals 5/8 cup of matzo cake meal or potato starch? If you are converting a year-round recipe to a Passover recipe, this list will be a great help.

RFCJ Newsgroup: Pesach Baked Dishes
RFCJ Newsgroup (rec.food.cuisine.jewish) archives recipes sent in from different Jewish ethnic streams (Sephardic, Ashkenazic, Yemenite, etc.) and communities around the world. Recipes posted to this newsgroup respect the basic framework of the Jewish dietary laws. The recipes separate dairy and meat, and they do not call for non-kosher ingredients.

RFCJ Newsgroup: Pesach Stove-Top Recipes
RFCJ Newsgroup (rec.food.cuisine.jewish) archives recipes sent in from different Jewish ethnic streams (Sephardic, Ashkenazic, Yemenite, etc.) and communities around the world. Recipes posted to this newsgroup respect the basic framework of the Jewish dietary laws. The recipes separate dairy and meat, and they do not call for non-kosher ingredients.

About.com Italian Cuisine: Italian Passover Recipes
Italy has a very long Jewish tradition, and as you might expect, the Italian Seder differs in some ways from the Ashkenazi Seder.

Readers' Favorite Passover Ingredient Tips
Readers share their favorite passover ingredient and recipe tips.

Discuss in my forum

Also from About.com: