Vegetarian Stuffed Aubergines
One of the most joyful things about cooking is experimentation, and we love a versatile recipe. A vegetarian alternative to our meat-stuffed aubergines, the recipe below is for a mushroom, spinach and tomato-filled aubergine, topped with cheese, but almost everything about this recipe is optional. A great way to use up whatever vegetables, herbs and greens are knocking about in the fridge, the only essential part here is the aubergine!
Syrian-style Stuffed Courgettes
Makes 20-24 portions Prep time: approx 1 hour | Cooking time: approx 2 hours Syrian Jews might be the masters of stuffed foods! From savoury, deep fried kibbeh to sweet nut-filled mahmoul, there is a skill and a flair involved with delicately encasing one food inside another which brings delight to the recipient and which […]
Harissa Honey Mushroom Pockets
Makes 20+ pockets Prep time: 30 minutes | Cooking time: 30 minutes It is traditional at the beginning of the Jewish year, and particularly at Sukkot, to eat stuffed foods, signifying a plentiful harvest. A vegetarian alternative to our brisket pockets, these mushroom bourekas sweetened with honey (for a sweet new year) and spicy with […]
Harissa Honey Brisket Pockets
Makes 20-40 pastry pockets Prep time: 75 minutes | Cooking time: 6½ hours There is a custom at start of the Jewish new year, and especially on Sukkot, to eat stuffed foods, signifying abundance following the harvest season. Sweetened with honey (for a sweet new year), spicy with harissa and plentiful in number, these succulent […]
Roasted Apples filled with Liver Pâté and Onion Jam
Serves 6 Prep time: 1 hour | Cooking time: 1½ – 2 hours There are many reasons given for eating apples at Rosh Hashanah. The Talmud and the Midrash explain that when Jacob entered his father Isaac’s tent to receive his blessings, the scent of the Garden of Eden entered with him, and it had […]
Stuffed Cabbage
Stuffed cabbage, or holishkes, are a traditional Succot food. At this festival, it is common custom to eat stuffed or wrapped foods, symbolic of both the bounty of harvest-time, and, on a much deeper level, God’s clouds of glory, which enshrouded and protected the Children of Israel as they wandered through the wilderness. Holishkes are […]
