Friday, May 22, 2009

Shvuot Recipes

Jewish holiday Shavuot traditions include eating dairy products suchascheesecakes and cream puffs which are grounded in honor ofMosesreceiving the Torah on Mt. Sinai.Here you can find nice Shavuot recipes, at http://www.chefkosher.com/




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Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Shavuot Blueberry Cheesecake Recipe



Ingredients:
Crust-
0.25 cup pecans (finely chopped)
0.25 almonds (finely chopped)
0.25 cup walnuts (finely chopped)
¾ cup vanilla wafers (finely chopped)
2 tablespoons melted butter
Filling-
1.5 lbs cream cheese
1 1/3 cups sugar
5 large eggs
16 ounces sour cream
0.25 cup flour
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 teaspoons lemon juice
1 can blueberry pie filling


Directions


1. Pre- heat the oven to 325 deg. Mix all crust ingredients together, press into the bottom and 1 ½” up the sides of a 9” spring form pan. Then set aside.
2. In a large mixing bowl- beat cream cheese til it’s fluffy and light. Add sugar (a little at a time) and beat til creamy. Add 1 egg at a time (beating after each one). Add flour, vanilla extract and the lemon juice. Mix well. Add sour cream and beat til smooth.
3. Pour the cream cheese mixture over the crust. Place into the oven on the middle rack and back at 325 degrees for 1 hour and 10-15 minutes. When time is up prop open the oven door and let cheesecake sit in the oven for one hour. Remove and allow cheesecake to cool and refrigerate overnight. Top with blueberry pie filling.
(makes 8 servings)

Friday, May 8, 2009

Amba recipe

As I wrote at my last post, I tried to find an Amba recipe.
After I checked many recipes in Hebrew, I discovered that in many recipes they ask you to use the amba spice, which is probably quite rare outside Israel. But I managed to find the following recipe for Iraqi style amba which is supposed to be good as well:

2 KG of cooked mango (it should be soft)
slice the mango to long, thin slices
put inside large bowl with water and lemon juice (out of lemon...)
a few hours later the mango is softer. add salt and curry spice. mix well.
If it's bitter- add more lemon and salt.
Let it sizzle in the jar for a few hours.
Put in the fridge.