Category: Shabbat
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Chicken in a pot with potatoes – Chicken Sofrito
A classic Sephardi dish of golden chicken and melt-in-your-mouth potatoes—slow-cooked in tradition and rich with flavour. Sofrito is a dish found in nearly every Sephardi family, with each household claiming its own unique version. Traditionally, it involves slow-cooking meat—whether chicken, lamb, or beef—in its own juices. Towards the end of the cooking time, lightly fried…
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Delicious Challah
If you have some free time and want to take on a baking project, then this is it! Delicious Challah (I can’t come up with a better name yet). This is my second version of challah. Not that my original recipe, found here, isn’t amazing – it is. However, this one, if possible, is even…
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T’beet – Iraqi Jewish Chicken & Rice in a Pot
Iraqi Shabbat stew with spiced rice and chicken is usually served on Shabbat, just like Ashkenazi cholent. Below, I give two different cooking times: one for a very slowly cooked dish and one for a much faster cook. This really depends on when you want to serve it and what your oven capacity is. I…
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Chicken Soup – A Method, Not a Recipe
Best served with noodles and Matza Balls or Kreplach. The way I feel about chicken soup is the way people feel about a much-loved, always-worn sweater. The moment you put it on, you are enrobed in comfort and warmth. But it’s so much better because you can share the soup. The sweater, on the other…
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Challah
This Challah recipe is perfect, and I can say that as it was gifted to me by master Chef Claude Ben Simon. It just works. I get a lot of questions about challah, what it is, and how to make it, and most importantly, how to get it right. Creating challah is a process that…
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Matza Balls
Matza balls have a long and storied history. In the Middle Ages, Jews in the Germanic lands observed their neighbours adding dumplings to soups and stews—and they followed suit. Using leftover bread or an easy dumpling mix made of flour and fat, these early dumplings added both texture and inexpensive bulk at a time when…