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This collection of kosher recipes for side dishes can be used to enrich any meal. It includes vegetables, pastas and rice, and of course a variety of scrumptious kugels.
Couscous and Vegetables (Parve)
On Thursdays I buy lots of fresh vegetables (cabbage, squash or pumpkin, zucchini, carrots, celery ...) and use them to make a big pot of "Marak L'Couscous" (Soup for Couscous). We enjoy eating Couscous with the Vegetables alongside Roast Chicken on Shabbat, and alongside Shnitzel during the week. It only takes five minutes to prepare more couscous if we finish it before the soup.
Three Layer Kugel (Parve)
If you want to serve an impressive looking dish and are willing to invest extra work toward this goal, then this Three-Layer Kugel recipe is for you. With layers of sweet potato, broccoli and cauliflower, this kugel is colorful and flavorful.
Spaghetti Kugel (Parve)
Instead of throwing away that leftover spaghetti, make a Spaghetti Kugel. This recipe basically substitutes spaghetti for thin noodles in a traditional Jerusalem Kugel. This is a great kugel to serve when you have lots of kids coming over for Shabbat kiddish.
Broiled Tomatoes (Parve)
Dress up any meal with Broiled Tomatoes. Serve this healthy and tasty side dish with your breakfast eggs, your lunch bagel, or your chicken dinner. Simply slice the tomatoes in half, season with olive oil, garlic, rosemary or basil, salt and pepper, and broil for 15-20 minutes. Simply delicious.
Roasted Peppers (Parve)
Roasted Peppers are a colorful, delicious, healthy and easy-to-make side dish that can compliment both a kosher dairy or meat meal. Slice the peppers, add garlic cloves, mix with olive oil, and roast.
Sauteed Mushrooms (Parve)
Sauteed Mushrooms make a wonderful parve side dish for the Sabbath meal. This Shabbat I am serving vegetable soup, roast chicken, broccoli, and wild rice. These easy-to-prepare mushrooms add depth to the menu.
Mother's Homemade Applesauce Recipe (Parve)
Susan Portman is a very talented artist who also knows how to cook artfully. She highly recommends her mother's special applesauce recipe. Her mother's secret was to cook the apple peels and cores in water to make a nice apple juice, drain, and then to add the sliced apples. Susan created a quick version of the recipe, using bottled apple juice, which achieves the same delicious results.
Pumpkin Pancakes (Parve)
Pumpkin, an autumn vegetable, is traditionally eaten by Sephardic Jews on the Jewish New Year. These Pumpkin Pancakes can be served at the Rosh Hashanah meal or any autumn meal.
Vegetable Strudel (Parve)
This Vegetable Strudel recipe is a great way to use extra vegetables. Just chop in a food processor, cook on the stovetop, roll up in ready dough, and bake. The result is great tasting, kosher side dish that is pretty enough to serve for a Sabbath or holiday meal.
Jewish Food Mailing List: Kugels
The Jewish Food Mailing List has compiled Jewish food recipes from its active subscribers. The mailing list defines Jewish food as any food that is able to be prepared according to kashruth (Biblical dietary laws).
Jewish Food Mailing List: Vegetables
The Jewish Food Mailing List has compiled Jewish food recipes from its active subscribers. The mailing list defines Jewish food as any food that is able to be prepared according to kashruth (Biblical dietary laws).
Jewish Food Mailing List: Pasta
The Jewish Food Mailing List has compiled Jewish food recipes from its active subscribers. The mailing list defines Jewish food as any food that is able to be prepared according to kashruth (Biblical dietary laws).
Jewish Food Mailing List: Rice, Grains, Legumes
The Jewish Food Mailing List has compiled Jewish food recipes from its active subscribers. The mailing list defines Jewish food as any food that is able to be prepared according to kashruth (Biblical dietary laws).
RFCJ Newsgroup: Kugels
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: Pasta, Grains
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: Vegetables
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.

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