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During the last couple of weeks I've been trying to use up my non-kosher-for-Passover staples. To use up some couscous (and some leftover celery that was starting to go bad) I served it with this sweet potatoes and chickpeas dish. Honestly I think that the celery is rather strange for a curry, but if you aren't similarly prejudiced it's a nice recipe. EDIT: I also ommitted the cocounut milk and added a little bit of peanut butter because of that "prejudice", so maybe if I'd actually followed the recipe the celery would've seemed less out of place. And now that I'm finishing it off I happened to toss some tahini on a bowl of it after reheating and it really brings the dish together wonderfully. So the moral of the story is that you can either follow the recipe and hope for the best, or substitute the coconut milk with peanut butter and tahini and hope my taste buds aren't just wonky today.
I also wanted to make this recipe for bulgur with cheese and eggplant. Unfortunately, I realized that I had a tupperware of a veggie-barley dish in my freezer to use up and figured it made more sense to eat what's already 100% purchased and toss my uncooked bulgur rather than tossing the frozen stuff and purchasing new ingredients to cook with the bulgur. But for those who don't have chametz leaking out your ears, or who aren't concerned with using it up within the next few days, the recipe does look quite good.
While it's related to kashrut more generally, I appreciated this article. It talks about local businesses (in L.A.) adopting an alternative kosher certification that, in addition to the standard restrictions on how animals can be slaughtered and the meat prepared, incorporates treatment of workers.
Now for the bulk of this entry (which is mostly the same as a Facebook note I put up at about this time last year), a listing of vegetarian and vegan non-kitniyot-kosher-for-Passover recipes (or recipe ideas, at least):
Even if you aren't Jewish or are Jewish but don't keep Passover Ashkenazi-style, this may give you some new idea with which to play. If you keep Passover Ashkenazi-style but aren't vegetarian/vegan, feel free to use this to help you expand your Passover diet beyond the traditional meat, potato, cabbage combinations (and perhaps avoid the line about about, after a week of low-fiber Passover foods, Moses saying, "Let my people go!"). And for everyone, if you have additional recipes/ideas, please share!
Recipes that can easily be gluten-free have a star (though I suspect others can be adapted by those who are more experienced at doing so). Similarly, people who know of KP egg-substitutes can presumably turn all of "vegetarian, parve" recipes vegan.
KP vegan recipes/ideas:
Including protein (i.e. nuts)
KP vegetarian recipes, parve:
KP vegetarian recipes, dairy:
I also wanted to make this recipe for bulgur with cheese and eggplant. Unfortunately, I realized that I had a tupperware of a veggie-barley dish in my freezer to use up and figured it made more sense to eat what's already 100% purchased and toss my uncooked bulgur rather than tossing the frozen stuff and purchasing new ingredients to cook with the bulgur. But for those who don't have chametz leaking out your ears, or who aren't concerned with using it up within the next few days, the recipe does look quite good.
While it's related to kashrut more generally, I appreciated this article. It talks about local businesses (in L.A.) adopting an alternative kosher certification that, in addition to the standard restrictions on how animals can be slaughtered and the meat prepared, incorporates treatment of workers.
Now for the bulk of this entry (which is mostly the same as a Facebook note I put up at about this time last year), a listing of vegetarian and vegan non-kitniyot-kosher-for-Passover recipes (or recipe ideas, at least):
Even if you aren't Jewish or are Jewish but don't keep Passover Ashkenazi-style, this may give you some new idea with which to play. If you keep Passover Ashkenazi-style but aren't vegetarian/vegan, feel free to use this to help you expand your Passover diet beyond the traditional meat, potato, cabbage combinations (and perhaps avoid the line about about, after a week of low-fiber Passover foods, Moses saying, "Let my people go!"). And for everyone, if you have additional recipes/ideas, please share!
Recipes that can easily be gluten-free have a star (though I suspect others can be adapted by those who are more experienced at doing so). Similarly, people who know of KP egg-substitutes can presumably turn all of "vegetarian, parve" recipes vegan.
KP vegan recipes/ideas:
Including protein (i.e. nuts)
- Passover granola (i.e. this or this)
- Vegan chopped liver (pick your favorite recipe - Google will turn up a ton)*
- Nutty baked eggplant
- Stir-fry with mushrooms (for protein), bok choy (always tasty), etc. In addition to garlic and ginger, you'll want a substitute for soy sauce (since soy sauce is kitniyot)*
- Lemon-Herb Quinoa*
- Quinoa with asparagus and nuts*
- Stuffed mushrooms (you can pick your favorite recipe from Google, obviously replacing bread crumbs with farfel if applicable, but this looks particularly tasty)
- Chunky celery soup (substitute quinoa for rice)*
- Veggie curry (just pick your favorite recipe (Google will give tons) and stick with non-kitniyot veggies)*
- Curried carrot soup* (requires blender)
- Veggie kishke (pick your favorite recipe - Google will turn up a ton)*
- Vegetable stew (this is one example, but there are tons of variations)*
- Ratatouille (Google will give tons)*
- Salad - lettuce based, Israeli-salad, Israeli carrot salad, Thai cucumber salad, beet salad, cabbage salad, there are tons of options.*
- Avocado salad (unique enough to list on its own)*
- Fennel and kohlrabi salad (unique enough to list on its own) (substitute something else for canola oil since it's kitniyot)*
- Steamed vegetables - Broccoli and asparagus are both tasty steamed and served with lemon (just be sure to wash carefully to maintain kashrut)*
- Sauted greens - it's hard to go wrong cooking kale or collard greens with onion, garlic, lemon juice, salt, and pepper (pick your favorite recipe - Google will turn up a ton)*
- Veggie borscht (might be a challenge to find kosher sherry or champagne vinegar though)*
- Flax matza ball soup
- Spinach and zuchini soup*
- "Chips" (i.e. matzah) and dip (or spread) - guacamole, salsa, babaganoush, pesto, etc. (pick your favorite recipe - Google will turn up a ton)*
- Oven-roasted spaghetti squash*
- Ice cream (i.e. chocolate coconut ice cream or pumpkin coconut ice cream) (or if you're going veggie and not vegan, you can do what we always did and get Breyer's all natural in a basic flavor since it uses sugar instead of corn syrup)(requires ice cream maker/freezer)*
- Potatoes in 5 million forms (roasted, mashed, kugel, soup, etc.)*
- Cabbage in 5 million forms (stuffed, soup, salad, etc.)*
KP vegetarian recipes, parve:
- Spinach frittata (pick your favorite recipe - Google will turn up a ton)
- Latkes - regular, sweet potato, zuchinni, etc. (just use non-kitniyot oil, ie KP canola, and matza meal or potato starch instead of flour)*
- Sweet potato kugel (pick your favorite recipe - Google will turn up a ton)*
- Eggplant cutlets*
- Matza brie (pick your favorite recipe - Google will turn up a ton)
- Spinach pie*
- Spinach and eggplant kugel*
- Crustless vegetable quiche (pick your favorite recipe - Google will turn up a ton both dairy and parve)*
- Omelettes (more a reminder that they're KP than a recipe)*
KP vegetarian recipes, dairy:
- Veggie loaf (substitute matza meal or potato starch for cornflakes)*
- Matza pizza (use the oven - in the microwave it gets soggy)
- Matza lasagna (I'm not a fan, and it isn't gebrachts, but some people love it) (pick your favorite recipe - Google will turn up tons; just check that the tomato sauce/paste lack corn syrup)
- Zucchini lasagna (just make sure that the tomato sauce/paste don't have corn syrup)*
- Cucumber salad with mint and feta*
- Zucchini ricotta (savory) cheesecake (apparently you pretty much need to substitute cottage cheese for the ricotta to avoid grain vinegar, but I think it still ought to be good...)*
- Crema de guacamole (blender required)*
- Eggplant and red pepper terrine (because of the broiling/grilling it's more work than I'm likely to bother with, but looks good)*
- Quinoa and grilled zuchini (requires a blender) (another one that because of the blending/grilling is probably more work than I'll bother with but that looks good)*