Kosher Food: Most Popular Articles

Kosher Food Labels
Use this Guide to Popular Kosher Food Labels in America to understand the kosher certification symbols printed on the packages of prepared kosher food items.

What is Kosher?
Does a rabbi's blessing make a food kosher? What is meant by a kosher kitchen? Why do some kosher products have K symbols and others OU symbols on their package? Why won't my Jewish daughter-in-law eat the kosher style hotdogs I bought? This page will help you better understand the term "kosher."

What is Kosher Food?
What is Kosher Food? Read a succinct, clear definition of kosher food.

Top 10 Kugel Recipes
Kugels have been a staple of Jewish cooking for centuries. Kugel, which means "ball" in German, originally referred to balls of noodle dough encased around fruity filling and steamed in covered pots. Kugels evolved over time into baked casserole dishes. Today there are recipes for both sweet kugels (generally dairy) and savory kugels (usually pareve).

Brisket
Brisket, a cut of meat from the breast or lower chest, is a popular Jewish holiday entree. Jews traditionally prepare beef brisket by braising it in a roasting pot. Learn how to prepare great brisket. Read the reasons why to prepare Jewish brisket for the holidays.

What is Glatt Kosher?
What is Glatt Kosher?

Asian Tuna or Chicken Salad
I first ate Asian Tuna Salad at a Bar Mitzvah luncheon, and I immediately feel in love with its fresh, light and original taste. When Julie Remer and Paula Weinstein contributed this recipe for Asian Tuna or Chicken Salad, I was pleasantly surprised to learn how simple a dish it is to prepare.

Tuna Pasta Salad
For a healthy and satiating salad that your children may even enjoy, try this light, colorful and tasty Tuna Pasta Salad. With tuna, pasta and vegetables, the salad makes a yummy meal-in-one.

Rituals, Menus & Recipes
Friday night dinner is the time when my family transitions from our busy and often stressful daily life to a more spiritual time. We set the Sabbath table with a white tablecloth and our best dishes. Candles, wine and challah loaves add a festive feel to the table. Then we sing "Shalom Aleichim" together to usher in the Jewish day of rest ([i]Shabbat[/i] in Hebrew). Enjoy this traditional menu and recipes for a Friday night Sabbath dinner.

Breaded Baked Chicken (Meat)
This recipe for Breaded Baked Chicken is quick, easy, loved by all and even good the next day. What else could anyone ask of a recipe? This is a great Sabbath lunch entree.

Crunchy Cabbage Salad
Crunchy Cabbage Salad is a great way to serve cabbage and add another fresh vegetable dish to a meal. While it looks and tastes like a lot of work, it is actually very easy to assemble.

Sweet Dairy Noodle Kugel
This Sweet Dairy Noodle Kugel - made with egg noodles, cottage cheese, sour cream, eggs and sugar - has old-fashioned flavor. It is a great brunch dish, when served with bagels and spreads. It is also the perfect dish to serve at the end of a fast such as Tisha B'Av or Yom Kippur.

Tabbouleh Salad
Tabbouleh Salad (a.k.a. tabouleh, tabouli, tabooli), a combination of bulgar wheat, vegetables and herbs, is a light, tangy and refreshing salad that is especially popular in the homes of Sephardic Jews. For a Sabbath appetizer, serve Tabbouleh on individual plates on top of a piece of lettuce. For a summer cookout, serve Tabbouleh Salad as a side dish next to Shish Kebabs.

Foil-Wrapped Baked Salmon
For a moist and flavorful salmon entree, simply drip seasonings on the fish, wrap the fillet tightly in foil, and bake. This Baked Salmon Fillet is easy to make, healthy and light to eat, and aesthetic enough to serve to guests.

What are Jewish Dietary Laws?
A person keeps kosher if he or she follows Jewish Dietary Laws. What are Jewish Dietary Laws (the laws of kashrut)?

Classic Israeli Salad (Pareve)
Israeli salad, finely diced tomatoes, cucumbers, and bell peppers topped with olive oil, lemon juice and salt, is light, healthy and fresh tasting.

Easy Three Bean Salad
This Three Bean Salad is the perfect parve picnic salad. It is quick and easy to prepare. It travels well. And it is so tasty that even the kids will ask for more.

Kids' Favorite Cucumber Salad
This is the only salad my kids request. Simply wash cucumbers, slice (for thin, even slices a food processor is recommended), add spices, and refrigerate. Your family will enjoy, especially during the hot summer months, this sweet cucumber salad all week long.

Shabbat Appetizers
A festive appetizer helps to differentiate a Sabbath meal from a weekday family meal. Each of these hors d'oeuvres is parve so it can be served with a meat or dairy meal. Enjoy these favorite Jewish holiday and Shabbat first courses.

Israeli Chicken Schnitzel
Schnitzel, which means cutlet in German, originally referred to deep-fried, breaded veal cutlets popular in German cuisine. The name and idea were borrowed by Jews, and today Israeli children are practically raised on chicken schnitzel.

Chef's Salad
The classic Chef's Salad recipe, which includes meat and cheese, is not kosher. Fortunately Susie Fishbein has created a kosher recipe for Chef's Salad. Susie's Kosher Chef's Salad taste wonderful, and it makes the perfect appetizer for a Sabbath meal. Mix the salad right before the meal and serve portions on individual plates. Easy, delicious and kosher!

Colorful Corn Salad
When we have guests over in the summer, I like to put a variety of fresh salads on the table. This Corn Salad is one of my favorite salads to serve because it is colorful, delicious, and easy to make. This salad also perfect for summer cookouts or picnics because it is parve and travels well.

Charred Pepper Salad
This Charred Pepper Salad can be served hot or cold. It’s a great Shabbat salad as you can serve it warm on Friday night and then cold for lunch the next day – though if you want enough for both meals I suggest doubling the recipe. The longer it sits in the marinade the tastier it gets!

Kosher Cheesecake Recipes
As it is customary to eat dairy food on the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, it is no wonder that cheesecake has become the most popular Shavuot dessert. This page offers a variety of cheesecake recipes - including Fast, Vegan, Low Fat, Gourmet, and more - so you can find the cheesecake recipe that best meets your holiday menu needs.

Tuna Fish
What is healthy about tuna? What is unhealthy about tuna? Which tuna is best to eat? How much tuna is safe to eat? The EPA provides guidelines for the safe amount of tuna to eat.

Dinner Du Jour and More!
Caterers Julie Remer and Paula Weinstein have published their customers' favorite recipes in this cookbook Dinner Du Jour and More!

Traditional Shavuot Menu
Shavuot, the Feast of the Weeks, is the Jewish holiday celebrating the harvest season in Israel and the anniversary of the giving of the Ten Commandments to the Israelites at Mount Sinai. Find a traditional dairy menu and recipes for the Shavuot holiday.

How To Make Challah
Making challah is not as difficult as its final braided shape makes it appear to be. And any effort that is invested in making challah is well worth the result! The smell and taste of freshly baked challah can turn a house into a home.

Top Shabbat Chicken Recipes
Chicken is the most popular Shabbat entree. It is so versatile. Chicken is delicious whether roasted, fried, cooked, breaded, marinated, or stuffed. As such, I favor the easy-to-make chicken recipes. The following are my favorite chicken recipes for Jewish Sabbath meals.

Chocolate Mousse Cake
Pareve cakes are an important part of a kosher recipe collection because they allow one to finish a festive meat meal with a festive dessert. This sweet, moist mousse cake is the perfect ending to a Sabbath family meal.

Shish Kabob Marinade
This marinade, provided by Paula Levine Weinstein and Julie Komerofsky Remer, is great for chicken, beef and fish. For a healthier marinade, the oil can be omitted.

Israeli Hummus
Hummus, made from garbanzo beans (a.k.a. chickpeas), is served as an appetizer, side dish or main course in Israel. Today grocery stores in Israel sell a variety of Hummus spreads (with pine nuts, with olive oil and paprika, with zaatar, with tahina...). Hummus tastes best when scooped up by a piece of warm Pita bread.

Lite Summer Sabbath Lunch
Those long, hot, summer Sabbath days are just around the corner. Days for relaxing with family and friends, reading, resting and recharging our batteries for the work week ahead. These days call for lite - but still festive - lunch menus. This summer Shabbat menu includes a variety of salads and grilled meat.

Chickpea Salad (Parve)
Legumes like chickpeas (also called garbanzo beans) are a main component of the Mediterranean diet. Hummus and felafel are two popular Israeli dishes that are made from chickpeas. This salad, from Paula Levine Weinstein and Julie Komerofsky Remer, is another way to enjoy this tasty, high fiber bean.

Shavuot for Busy Cooks
Shavuot is the Jewish holiday celebrating the harvest season in Israel and the anniversary of the giving of the Ten Commandments to the Israelites at Mount Sinai. Given that dairy dishes can be labor intensive and that Shavuot often falls in the middle of the work week, these Shavuot dinner and lunch menus consists primarily of kosher dairy recipes for busy cooks.

Basic Potato Kugel
Potato Kugel, moist on the inside and crispy on the outside, is a staple of Eastern European Jewish cooking. While there are many variations of potato kugel, this Basic Potato Kugel recipe is still my favorite.

Chana's Cheese Blintzes
Blintz, which means "pancake" in Ukrainian, is a classic Ashkenazic Jewish food that probably originated in Poland. Blintzes are thin crepe-like pancakes folded around a filling. Cheese blintzes are traditionally served for Shavuot along with other dairy dishes. They are also popular on Hanukkah as they are fried in oil.

About Chickpeas
Chickpeas, also known as garbanzo beans, are edible legumes. As a pareve source of protein, chickpeas are a valued ingredient in kosher cooking. Sephardic Jews have long cooked with chickpeas. In Israel, as in other Middle Eastern countries, the beans are popularly used for dishes like hummus and falafal. Ashkenazi Jews traditionally serve chickpeas at the Shalom Zachar celebration for baby boys, and they have recently started to add chickpeas to stews, soups and salads.

Baba Ghanoush
Baba Ghanoush - also known as Baba Ghanouj and Baba Ganoush - is a dip or spread made of roasted eggplant and tahini. Simply roast the eggplant, scoop out the softened pulp, and then puree with tahini and seasonings. The seasonings used in this recipe for Baba Ghanoush are garlic, lemon juice, parsley and salt. Dip fresh pita bread or cut vegetables into the Baba Ghanoush for a healthy snack.

Parve
Parve is a Hebrew term (pareve is the Yiddish term) that describes food without any animal or dairy ingredients. Jewish dietary laws considers pareve food to be neutral; Pareve food can be eaten with both meat and milk dishes. Fish, eggs, fruits and vegetables are parve.

Moroccan Carrot Salad
Carrots flavored with cumin and garlic are a classic dish in Morocco. Whenever I want to add a colorful and flavorful side salad to a meal, I find this Moroccan Carrot Salad does the trick.

Fruit Compote
This Fruit Compote, contributed by Susan Portman, is easy to make and aesthetic to serve at the end of a festive Sabbath or holiday meal. My 9-year-old son prefers this compote to chocolate cake.

Israeli Chocolate Balls
I made these when I was in preschool in Israel, and my children make these in their preschools in Israel. Kids love to make them and eat them. Israelis call them Kadori Shokolad (Chocolate Balls), but elsewhere they are referred to as truffles. By rolling them in a variety of coverings (powdered sugar, coconut, or candy sprinkles), they can make a colorful dessert.

Top 8 Tuna Recipes
Tuna, like most things, is good in moderation and not good in excess. Since tuna is so tasty, economical and healthy when eaten in moderation, I've included recipes that make one can of tuna go a long way.

Bagels
Eastern European Jews brought bagels to North America in the late 19th century. Although bagels are considered "Jewish food", they have no religious significance. Bagels simply have been popular in Jewish circles for generations. Given bagels are prepared by boiling and then baking yeast dough, they have a doughy interior and a somewhat crisp exterior.

Israeli Chocolate Rugelach
While I prefer rugelach filled with preserves and nuts, my kids like chocolate filled rugelach the best. Americans tend to fill their chocolate rugelach simply with mini-chocolate chips, while Israelis tend to make their own chocolate filling. The Israeli version of chocolate rugelach, which usually includes a touch of cinnamon, is more interesting in my opinion.

Pita
Warm pita, hummus and Israeli salad reminds me of eating outside on a peaceful, summer evening in Israel. You can use this recipe to make your own Israeli Pita Pockets (pitot in Hebrew).

Apple Cake
What do you get when you cross apples with flour, oil, eggs, sugar and spice? This Apple Cake recipe from Ohio caterers Paula Levine Weinstein and Julie Komerofsky Remer. Since the desire to make a cake often arises spontaneously, great-tasting, kosher-parve dessert recipes with common, likely-to-be-in-the-pantry ingredients, are valuable.

2-Minute Cole Slaw
I like to be able to quickly make a variety of salads, especially in the summer. They add a colorful, healthy and light touch to everyday and Sabbath meals. Simply buy a package of ready-cut vegies, combine a few ingredients for the dressing, and stir. In addition to being a quick-fix, I like this 2-Minute Cole Slaw recipe because it is not too heavy and saucy.

Blech
Blech, an aluminum sheet which is placed over a gas or electric fire before the Jewish Sabbath begins, enables Jews who do not light fire on Shabbat to eat warm food on Shabbat.

Broccoli Souffle
This Broccoli Souffle, provided by Paula Levine Weinstein and Julie Komerofsky Remer of Columbus, Ohio, is one of those easy, versatile, sure-fire success recipes that should be in the recipe box of every kosher cook. This souffle can be pareve or dairy depending on whether it is made with milk, soy milk or coffee rich. And it can even be made kosher for Passover by using matzo meal instead of flour.

Chocolate Chip Cookies
Too many times I've wanted to make Chocolate Chip Cookies, but discovered that either my margarine was not soft enough (at room temperature) or I did not even have margarine. So I was thrilled to find this recipe for Chocolate Chip Cookies made with vegetable oil in Levana Kirshchenbaum's cookbook, Levana's Table.

Ashkenazic New Year Meals
Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year. Special Rosh Hashanah food customs have developed over the centuries. Enjoy these traditional Ashkenazic Rosh Hashanah holiday dinner and lunch menus and recipes.

E.T.'s Marinade for Steak
The lemon in this marinade tenderizes the steaks. The soy, garlic and parsley work with the lemon to add super flavor to the meat. E.T.'s Marinade for Steak is easy and tasty.

Broccoli Cheese Soup
Often in the summer when Shabbat starts later in the evening, we will have a dairy meal instead of the traditional meat meal. This Broccoli Cheese Soup is a perfect starter for dairy Sabbath meals as well as for the Shavuot holiday meal.

Israeli Breakfast
To avoid the hot sun, Israel’s pioneer farmers would work in the early morning. After the day heated up and their appetites were large, they would break for a hearty meal of bread, olives, cheese, and vegetables. While few Israelis today take the time to eat this full morning meal, Israeli hotels generally serve a large, varied and satiating “Israeli breakfast” to tourists.

Chocolate Mousse
This recipe was given to me by an old flatmate who is also an artist. She prepares the most wonderful food and this chocolate mouse always gets rave reviews. I have made it here with 250 grams of chocolate but you can use any amount that you like always keeping the ratio of 1 egg per every 50 grams of chocolate plus one extra egg white. Thanks Liora!

Sugared Almond Salad
This Spinach Strawberry Salad with Poppy Seed Dressing is a refreshing summer salad. For a more festive salad, add either sliced purple onion or slivered almonds.

Deli Roll
I was served this Deli Roll for a Shabbat appetizer at a friend's house, and I immediately knew the recipe was destined for this Kosher Food site. Everyone, including the kids, loved the look and taste of this easy to prepare first course.

Kugel Yerushalmi
This uniquely-flavored savory kugel, of caramelized noodles spiced with black pepper, was brought to the city of Jerusalem by Eastern European Hasidic Jews in the eighteenth century. Thus the kugel is called Kugel Yerushalmi, which means Jerusalem Kugel. Kugel Yerushalmi is traditionally eaten after Sabbath morning prayer services - either for kiddish or lunch - along with cholent and pickles.

Easy Eggplant Parmesan
Israelis love eggplant (chatzil in Hebrew) because it is economical, versatile, easy to prepare, and delicious in many different forms. Eggplant Parmesan, a common Italian dish, is an especially popular dish on Shavuot, when dairy foods are served.

Treif
Non-kosher food, food not in accord with Jewish dietary laws, is called treif.

Chocolate Gooey Brownies
Years ago my cousin served this as the Sabbath lunch dessert. It is easy to make, can be served after a meat meal (it is parve), and loved by children. I suggest adding this Double Chocolate Gooey Brownie Recipe to your Shabbat pareve dessert recipe collection.

Matboucha
Matboucha is a traditional Moroccan cooked tomato and bell pepper salad. It is so popular in Israel that it can be found right next to the Hummus on Israeli grocery store shelves. Once you make it yourself, you won't want to settle for store-bought Matboucha anymore. While Matboucha can be served hot or cold, I like it best cold on a cracker or fresh pita.

Mandel Bread (Pareve)
Mandelbrot, which literally means almond (mandel) bread (brot), is a twice-baked hard bread similar to Italian biscotti. For classic, rich-tasting mandel bread, follow these directions, provided by Paula Levine Weinstein and Julie Komerofsky Remer, EXACTLY as they are written.

Blintz Souffle
While Jews probably began making blintzes hundreds of years ago in Poland, they only began to use frozen blintzes to make this Blintz Souffle recipe in 20th-century America. When you have a crowd joining you for a dairy meal - such as for Sabbath, Shavuot, or the Nine Days - this easy-to-make, crowd-pleasing Blintz Souffle is the perfect dish to serve.

Kettle Corn
Popcorn is a wonderful kosher snack. Since it is pareve, it can be eaten after both meat and dairy meals. And Kettle Corn is an especially wonderful treat, with its combined salty and sweet flavor. This Kettle Corn recipe comes from Susie Fishbein's Kosher by Design Short on Time cookbook. According to Fishbein, Splenda sugar substitute can be used instead of sugar in this recipe for a sugar-free treat.

Festive Israeli Salad (Pareve)
Whether eating in Israel in a restaurant or in someone's home, you are likely to find some version of this finely diced, tomato-cucumber based salad.

E.T.'s Honey Marinade
Everyone in our neighborhood in Israel knows to call E.T. with marinade questions. I like E.T.'s Honey Marinade best on boneless chicken thighs (pargiot in Hebrew), but E.T. says this marinade works well on any poultry.

Naomi Muller's Tuna Patties
Naomi Muller's Tuna Patties call for just seven ingredients, all of which are likely to be sitting in your pantry at any time. The patties are easy to make, healthy and tasty enough to please your children.

Traditional Hanukkah Menu
Read a succinct explanation of the Jewish festival of Hanukkah. Get a traditional Hanukkah meat menu, a traditional Hanukkah dairy menu, and favorite Hanukkah recipes.

Torah
Torah, Judaism's most holy book, is the source of Jewish Dietary Laws of Kashrut.

Half Whole Wheat Challah
This kosher recipe for Half Whole Wheat Challah comes from the cookbook of Tamar Ansh, A Taste of Challah - A Comprehensive Guide to Challah and Bread Making. Thus, it is fool-proof as well as delicious and healthy.

How to Make Rugelach
I was surprised to find how easy, and fun, it is to make rugelach. It does take time as the dough needs to be refrigerated and then rolled out. But the resulting pastry is well worth the investment in time. Follow these step-by-step instructions, with helpful photos, to learn how to make traditional Jewish rugelach cookies.

Cauliflower Broccoli Salad
I made this Cauliflower Broccoli Salad for our Israeli Independence Day picnic. The carrots and red onion add color, and the sunflower seeds and cashews add flavor. The simple dressing consists of mayonnaise, red wine vinegar and brown sugar. Be sure to chop the vegetables into small pieces. This salad makes a refreshing and lite accompaniment to grilled meat.

Crustless Quiche
This is the easiest quiche in the world but it doesn't compromise on the flavor. I serve it every Shavuot as well as after fast days. The recipe I have given here is for mushroom quiche, but you can just as easily make zucchini quiche or tuna quiche by merely replacing the mushrooms with either one.

Vegetarian Vegetable Kugel (Pa
This savory, pareve, vegetable kugel is a favorite among vegetarians who keep kosher. When made with matzo meal instead of flour, this kugel is a favorite among vegetarians who keep kosher for Passover.

Baked Fish with Vegetables
What better way to bake fish than to surround it with a variety of fresh vegetables and flavor it with white wine, lemon juice and spices?

Broccoli Kugel
It's 5 p.m. on Friday. The Jewish Sabbath starts in two hours. My 16-year-old daughter walks in from the beach, and tells me she has to take a kugel to the potluck Shabbat dinner she is having with friends. I open up my freezer to find a bag of frozen broccoli. As fast as I can, I throw together this Broccoli Kugel. Boy was I surprised when she came home and told me the kugel was the hit of the party!

Chocoholics' Chocolate Cake
If you are a chocolate lover, this cake is your dream come true. As a kosher dairy recipe, it is less versatile than kosher parve dessert recipes (kosher observant can not serve it after a festive meat meal). Nevertheless, this Chocoholics' Chocolate Cake is so delicious, everyone should have a copy of it in their recipe box.

Focaccia Bread
My wife and I recently enjoyed a night out together at a local cooking class. While we learned how to make many Italian dishes in the class, we liked this simple and delicious Focaccia Bread, especially when combined with Sun-Dried Tomato Spread, best of all. This dough can be used either for Focaccia or Pizza. Our children have become so fond of this Focaccia / Pizza recipe that they want us to go out again.

Meringue with Strawberries
My wife made these Meringue Cups with Strawberries and Chocolate Sauce for Passover Seder years ago. Now our kids insist we serve this for Pesach Seder dessert every year.

Kosher Cuts of Beef
Rabbi Barry Dov Lerner is asked if a Steamship Round cut of beef is kosher.

Cabbage and Noodles
My parents were born in Hungary before World War II, and they both remember loving this Cabbage and Noodles dish as children. When they immigrated to Israel as teens, after surviving the horrors of the Holocaust, they brought memories of this dish with them. In time they began to make it in their Israeli home and serve it to their Israeli children. By the time I was born, this dish was a well-established staple in our Hungarian-flavored, Israeli home.

Cream Cheese Noodle Kugel
This sweet kugel can be prepared a day in advance and baked the day of the meal. What this kugel lacks in our modern definition of "lightness", it makes up for in old-fashioned Jewish food flavor. Serve with baked salmon and Israeli salad for an easy-to-prepare and satisfying dairy meal that the whole family will enjoy.

Do All Jews Keep Kosher?
Do All Jews Keep Kosher? What percentage of American Jews today observe Jewish Dietary Laws?

Israeli Cheesecake
This is one of those "gotta have the recipe" recipes that I got from a friend. Everyone, including my "I don't like cheesecake" son, loved this delicious cake. I call this Israeli Cheesecake because its main ingredient is Israeli white cheese (Gevina Levana).

Vegetarian Chopped Liver (Pare
Vegetarian Chopped Liver is very frequently served as a Sabbath appetizer in Ashkenazi homes. There are many versions of pareve chopped liver, but this one made of onions, peas, beans, nuts and hard-boiled eggs is one of the most popular. Vegetarian chopped liver is lighter and healthier than real chopped chicken livers, but the taste is quite similar.

Frozen Lemon Dessert
This is the perfect summer Sabbath lunch or Seudah Shlishit dessert, especially when you have invited guests. This Frozen Lemon Dessert is pareve, easy to make, and a light, sweet ending to a festive meal.

Zucchini Souffle-Nechama Cohen
Nechama Cohen, Founder and Executive Director of the Jewish Diabetes Association (JDA) and author of EnLITEned Kosher Cooking, shares her healthy recipe for low carb, fat free, Zucchini Souffle. This wonderful souffle can be made with substitute (non-dairy) cheese for a kosher parve dish.

Chickpea Patties
In her natural whole vegetarian kosher cuisine cookbook, Nutrilicious, Edith Rothschild offers this recipe for Chickpea Patties. They are a practical protein stand-by that can be eaten hot, cold or at room temperature either, by themselves or in a sandwich.

2-Minute Carrot Salad
This 2-Minute Carrot Salad takes longer to eat than it does to make. The recipe is so simple that your children can make it. And since it is colorful and tasty, the kids are also likely to eat it. Add a healthy, sweet touch to your next meal by putting this carrot salad on the menu.

Vegetable Strudel
This Vegetable Strudel recipe is a great way to use extra vegetables. Just chop in a food processor, cook, roll up in ready pastry dough, and bake. The result is a great tasting, kosher side dish that is pretty enough to serve for a Sabbath or holiday meal.

Chicken Noodle Soup
It has become a family tradition to serve Chicken Noodle Soup for our Rosh Hashanah holiday meal and Chicken Soup with Matzo Balls for Passover Seder. The herbs and spices used in this Chicken Soup recipe make for a deliciously rich broth.

Barbecue Glazed Chicken
Try this kosher recipe for Barbecue Glazed Chicken and Potatoes for the Friday night Sabbath dinner. On Saturday, when food is heated on a hot plate in accordance with Judaism's Sabbath cooking laws, kugels or rice work better than potatoes as side dishes.

Grandmother's Kuchen
Kuchen means "cake" in German, and refers to a variety of cakes. This kuchen, which was my grandmother's recipe, is a coffee cake with veins and pockets of baked-in cinnamon and sugar. My mother traditionally baked this cake for the holiday of Shavuot, but my family and friends like it so much that I make it all year round. If you are looking for an excellent, dairy, coffee cake and you are not looking to count calories, then this is the cake to bake!

Suggestions for an Easy Fast
Tisha B'Av and Yom Kippur are two of the most commonly observed fast days in Judaism. There are several ways to prepare oneself physically for a healthy fast.

Artichokes
Artichokes make a wonderful first course. Children love to pull off one leaf at a time until they get to the heart of the artichoke. What a fun and healthy way to start a family meal together!

Coconut Ice Cream (Pareve)
In kosher homes, festive meals are often meat and dairy desserts can not be served after a meat meal. Therefore, pareve desserts play a leading role in the kosher recipe box. This recipe for pareve Coconut Ice Cream is a big hit in my home on those long summer Sabbath days.

Chicken Marsala
Chicken Marsala, a classic Italian chicken dish, makes a wonderful Sabbath entree. Serve with parve mashed potatoes and a green vegetable for a simple-to-make and delicious-to-eat dinner.

What is Treif?
What is Treif?

Cottage Cheese Pancakes
I like the feeling of knowing I can go into my pantry, especially when it is almost empty, and manage to put together something comforting for the whole family to eat. All you need is oil, flour, sugar, eggs and cottage cheese to make these delicious, kosher-dairy pancakes. These Cottage Cheese Pancakes can be served for breakfast or brunch, and they even make a nice summery dinner when served with fruit salad.

Oven-Baked Potatoes
I originally tried this recipe, which comes from Miriam Zakon's The Kids Kosher Cookbook: Do-It-Yourself Recipes Your Kids Will Love to Cook, because it was a simple, kosher, Sabbath recipe that I could make with my children. But now I regularly use this recipe because my family loves the taste of these moist, flavorful Oven-Baked Potatoes.

Edamame Tomato Salad
Who doesn't love edamame? These soybeans are delicious and nutritious. Edamame, soybeans that are harvested while still green and not yet hardened, have a sweet, nutty flavor. They are low in fat and high in protein, vitamins A and B, and calcium. While these beans can consumed as a snack, they can also be easily incorporated into salad recipes.

Macaroni Salad for Kids
This child-friendly Macaroni Salad can be the starchy side dish on your barbecue menu. While this simple pasta salad can be easily dressed up with cherry tomatoes, red onion, broccoli, carrots or other raw vegetables, my kids prefer it plain.

Kosher Pickled Cucumbers
My father made these Pickled Cucumbers when I was growing up. I tried them once, and my kids fell in love with them. Now every morning they ask me to make them a pita stuffed with humus and these pickles for school. I call them old fashioned pickles because they don't use pickling mixes or any such modern ingredients. In this recipe the cucumbers are pickled in water, salt, vinegar, garlic and dill.

Chocolate Chewies (Pareve)
Looking to bake some tasty treats with your children today? Try this simple recipe for Chocolate Chewies from Paula Levine Weinstein and Julie Komerofsky Remer's cookbook, Our Customers' Favorites. These flour-less cookies can be packed into a Purim food basket and made during Passover.

Hamantashen
Hamantashen is a triangular, filled pastry which is traditionally served on the Jewish festival of Purim.

Poppy Seed Cookies
If you have 20 free minutes in the days leading up to Purim, make a batch of these Poppy Seed cookies and stick them in your freezer. Then you can pull them out on Purim day to serve for dessert at the end of the Purim meal or you can put them in your Purim food baskets. And when it isn't Purim, these cookies go well with a cup of milk, tea or coffee.

Russian Potato Salad
This Russian Potato Salad is hearty and delicious. The peas and carrots add color and flavor that set this salad apart from other potato salads. For a pleasing summer meal, serve this potato salad with fried chicken.

Latkas
Fried food is traditionally eaten on Hanukkah in commemoration of the oil that miraculously burned for eight days when the Maccabees purified and rededicated the holy Temple in Jerusalem. Fried Potato Pancakes (called Latkes in Yiddish and Levivot in Hebrew) are the hands-down, mouth-open holiday favorite.

Parmesan-Crusted Grouper
The recipes in Susie Fishbein's kosher cookbooks always lead to crowd-pleasing dishes - delicious and beautiful. The recipes in her cookbooks with few ingredients and simple instructions, such as this Parmesan-Crusted Grouper, are my favorites.

Classic Gefilte Fish (Pareve)
At the time of the Mishna (200 CE), rabbis deemed it meritorious to eat fish on the Sabbath and Jews became accustomed to eating fish at festive meals. Due to the plethora of rivers in Europe, Ashkenazi Jews tended to cook with freshwater fish. Eastern European Jews would make a mixture of chopped fish, stuff it back into the skin of the fish, and boil it. The word [i]gefilte[/i] means stuffed in Yiddish.

Summer Fruit Soup
Fruit Soup - easy to make and refreshing to eat - is the perfect summer dessert. This recipe is economical, as it uses in-season produce. It is healthy, as it contains no fat and can be made without sugar. And it is parve, which means it can be served after any kosher meal (meat or dairy).

Danny Kaye's Lemon Pasta
Surprise your family one evening with this different pasta dish. While it is as easy to make as other pastas, its creamy, lemony taste is unique. Danny Kaye's Lemon Pasta recipe comes from ESRA's Kosher Meatless Meals Cookbook.

Tuna Noodle Casserole
Susan Portman is a talented artist who also knows how to cook artfully. Susan highly recommends this Tuna Noodle Casserole, as it is an easy-to-make crowd-pleaser.

Roasted Asparagus
Roasted Asparagus is the perfect side dish for any Sabbath or Jewish holiday meal. It is easy to make, and the color and taste complement meat main dishes.

Pearled Barley Pilaf
Barley is a grain with a nut-like flavor and a pasta-like consistency. Pearled barley is hulled barley that has been polished so that the ends (bran) of the kernel are removed. While pearled barley is lower in nutrients than hulled barley, it cooks more quickly. Pearled Barley Pilaf is a great way to upgrade your next chicken dinner. As a less familiar side dish than rice, couscous, farfel or potatoes, barley can dress up a meal.

One Pot Shabbat
This recipe cooks the chicken and the rice together in the same pot. The rice is delicious as it absorbs the juices from the chicken. Make sure that the chicken is sealed tightly when cooking so that the steam stays in the pot and keeps the chicken moist.

Carrot Kugel
While many carrot kugels are really carrot cake in disguise, this Carrot Kugel has a definite kugel quality about it. The flavor of this honey-sweetened kugel is dominated by carrots and complemented by lemon rind. The egg whites add a light touch. Bake the kugel in loaf pans, muffin pans or a bundt pan.

Pureed Butternut Squash Soup
Butternut squash, a winter squash that is nutritionally rich in complex carbohydrates and beta-carotene, tastes somewhat like sweet potatoes. This Pureed Butternut Squash Soup, contributed by Word of Mouth kosher catering service, is easy to make, delicious to eat and lovely to serve.

Kosher Food vs. Jewish Cuisine
What is the difference between Kosher Food and Jewish Cuisine?

Perfect Parve Party Cake
Why do I call this the Perfect Parve Party Cake? First, it is parve so it can be served after a traditional Jewish Sabbath or holiday meat meal. Secondly, it is very easy and quick to prepare. Thirdly, it is aesthetic and delicious with its chocolate base and creamy topping.

Apricot Walnut Rugelach
Rugelach is sold fresh everywhere you turn in Israel, so I never felt the need to make my own. But six months into running a Kosher Food site, the time arrived for me to give it a try. I researched a bunch of recipes, took ideas from each of them, and then compiled this rugelach recipe. I was surprised to find that making rugelach is quite easy, and homemade is so much better than bought rugelach.

Sufganiot
Sufganiot are deep-fried jelly doughnuts that are traditionally eaten during the Jewish festival of Hanukkah. Sufganiot are especially popular in Israel. The oil used to fry the doughnuts are reminiscent of the oil that miraculously burned, according to the Hanukkah story, in the ancient Temple in Jerusalem.

Frozen Chocolate Cheesecake
The guests have been invited, and the holiday is approaching fast. Why not lessen the load of holiday preparation by preparing dessert a few days in advance? This delicious Chocolate Cheesecake, which can be kept in the freezer for up to a week, should be served frozen.

Traditional Meat Cholent
Cholent is the quintessential Jewish food. Jewish law prohits lighting a fire and cooking on the Sabbath. So how can a Jewish family eat a hot nourishing meal on the Sabbath? Cholent, a slow-cooked, bean-barley stew, has been the answer for centuries. While cholent was the main Sabbath food in Eastern Europe, it was also eaten by Jews throughout the world. Today there are a great variety of ethnic-influenced cholent recipes.

Mushroom Blintzes (Pareve)
These Mushroom Blintzes are my favorite Friday night appetizer. I make a large batch, and then store them in the freezer. When Friday night rolls around, I have delicious and festive appetizer that can be easily defrosted, heated and served.

Pasta Bechamel
I had a problem. The boxed Macaroni and Cheese sets contain unhealthy chemicals, and my attempts to make homemade macaroni and cheese were failing because the cheese would get lumpy. My friend Jay Engelmayer, Senior Culinary Lecturer for the Jerusalem Culinary Institute, came to my rescue with this wonderful Pasta Bechamel recipe.

Spinach Cheese Squares
When everyone raves about these Spinach Cheese Squares in Phyllo, you can play along and let them think you slaved away. Maybe then they will offer to do the dishes, while you lay on the couch and read a good book!

4-by-4 Chicken
Did you know that your child can prepare chicken for the Sabbath dinner? This 4-by-4 Kosher Chicken recipe, from Miriam Zakon's wonderful The Kids Kosher Cookbook: Do-It-Yourself Recipes Your Kids Will Love to Cook, is easy and delicious.

Applesauce Recipe
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.

Crustless Artichoke Quiche (Da
In this Crustless Artichoke Quiche recipe, Paula Levine Weinstein and Julie Komerofsky Remer provide the perfect blend of cheeses, vegetables and spices for a gourmet-tasting treat.

Apple Glazed BBQ Chicken
Chavi Feldman of Chashmonaim, Israel contributed this Apple Glazed BBQ Chicken recipe for the autum Rosh Hashanah holiday. This chicken recipe uses apples which are both a symbol of the Jewish New Year and reflective of the season of the year.

Maple Chicken with Potatoes
I turn to this recipe whenever I am rushed and need to quickly prepare a kosher meat meal that kids will also eat. Peel and cube potatoes, place chicken pieces on top, pour maple syrup (parve) on top, and bake. I like to serve the Maple Chicken and Potatoes with roasted asparagus or peas for a complete meal.

Mehadrin
Mehadrin refers to the most stringent level of kosher supervision.

Easy Avocado Dip
Is that avocado you bought getting soft? Just mash it up with the back of a fork, and add some mayonnaise, lemon juice, garlic and salt to create a kosher-pareve and child-friendly dip.

Sour Cream Coffee Cake
This Sour Cream Coffee Cake is one of my mother-in-law's many specialties. And I'm not just saying that to score points! This sweet, moist cake is layered with a chocolate, brown sugar and cinnamon crunch.

Teriyaki Green Beans
These Teriyaki Green Beans grace our table nearly every Shabbat. They are healthy, easy to make and great tasting. Try experimenting with different teriyaki sauces. We have found a sesame teriyaki sauce that works particularly well with the beans.

Kosher Mediterranean Rice
Pilaf is a Middle Eastern and Central Asian dish in which a grain is browned in oil and then cooked in a seasoned broth. This Rice dish, with curry and raisins, tastes like a pilaf, even though the recipe skips browning. The Mediterranean flavor of this rice makes it the perfect side dish for a lamb entree.

Kids' Favorite Cauliflower
Do you want your kids to eat vegetables? Try this recipe, which comes from my mother, Chana Shimoni. Chana's Cauliflower beats potatoes, rice, pasta, and even couscous, as my kids' favorite side dish.

Apricot Chicken
So simple and so good! This Apricot Chicken is my family's favorite saucy chicken recipe. I like to make it for Shabbat lunch because it is moist enough to serve the day after baked.

Simple Roast Chicken
Roast chicken proves that sometimes simple is better. Simply mix spices, coat chicken and then bake, uncovered, in the oven. You can make preparation and serving even easier by buying a chicken cut into eighths. The result is a moist and flavorful chicken entree that everyone will love.

August Shabbat
Let's be honest - cooking in August feels something like swimming in January. The apron and the bathing suit feel out of season. But if you have guests coming for a Sabbath meal this summer, you will probably want to serve a festive, home-cooked meal despite the heat. These August Shabbat menus for Friday night dinner and Saturday lunch include quick recipes for lite dishes.

Pita with Zaatar
So easy and so delicious. This recipe for Toasted Pita with Zaatar is a definite must-try. Serve with an Israeli or Greek Salad for a light summer meal.

Apple Crumble
The vanilla sugar and orange juice give this Apple Crumble an extra special taste. This is one of my all time favorite recipes! This dessert is especially delicious when served in the Sukkah during the holiday of Succoth.

Chicken Turkey Soup
This recipe for kosher Chicken Turkey Soup is loved by kids and a staple on our Sabbath table. The turkey adds iron and flavor. The soup can be served with matzo balls or noodles.

October Shabbat
October is the official "After the Holidays" month. And after three weeks of holiday meals (from Rosh Hashanah through Simchat Torah), I prefer to spend time in the gym than the kitchen. So this October Shabbat menu includes quick and easy recipes for Sabbath meals.

Honey Mustard Chicken
This saucy Honey Mustard Chicken - with its curry and garlic kick - is perfect for Jewish holiday and Sabbath lunches because it does not dry out when reheated on the Shabbat Plata (hotplate). The honey in it makes is particularly fitting for Rosh Hashanah lunch. Serve with rice, which can be topped with the chicken's extra sauce, and a green salad or vegetable.

Naomi Muller's Tuna Tacos
Naomi Muller's Tuna Tacos are kid-friendly. Muller suggests putting all the toppings in small bowls so children can assemble their own tacos. Toppings include cheese, salsa, cut-up tomatoes and sour cream. For an even more exciting look, use blue corn taco shells.