Purim food?

TheFuzzy · **Posted:** Sun Mar 20, 2011 4:00 pm

All,

The only foods I readily associate with Purim are sweets. So we're making some hamentashen (including blackberry, and nutella). Otherwise, the relevant menu seems to be Persian vegetarian food. Anybody have something they make for Purim?

http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la ... 0959.story

fitzie · **Posted:** Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:04 am

Sambusak - pastries stuffed with ground beef or lamb or with feta cheese
I haven't made these in a while but thought they were good. Let me know if you would like the recipe. We don't celebrate but a neighbor used to make these.

fitzie

gardnercook · **Posted:** Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:29 am

I don't remember anything specific for entrees, but I had an aunt that made mandelbrat (honey coated pate choux balls) along with the prune paste hamentashen.
ilene

Darcie · **Joined:** Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:18 pm **Posts:** 1244

I admit I'm not up on religious observances so I had to Google it. Turns out Purim foods might give me a use for those canned quail eggs:

Quote:

Special breads are also baked among various communities. In Moroccan Jewish communities, a Purim bread called Ojos de Haman or Eyes of Haman is sometimes baked in the shape of Haman's head, and the eyes which are made of eggs are plucked out to demonstrate the destruction of Haman.

(from Wikipedia, natch).

phoenix · **Posted:** Mon Mar 21, 2011 12:11 pm

I made prune hamantaschen. Nick Malgieri's dough was good, but too soft, I think. I have the Arthur Schwartz book on Jewish cooking, but wasn't sure that the dough needed 3 eggs in it so I went to Malgieri's book. I got the prune filling recipe on line (maybe tastespotting). It was good.
Nancy

Amy · **Posted:** Mon Mar 21, 2011 3:06 pm

Interestingly, I asked my "go to" source for all things Orthodox, and she was like, "whatever". She, of course, said it more eloquently.

Amy

gardnercook · **Posted:** Mon Mar 21, 2011 3:51 pm

Josh
Here is another article on Purim Foods that might be helpful....Kreplach would be great and the infused vodka sounds fun.

http://www.myjewishlearning.com/holiday/Jewish_Holidays/Purim/At_home/Foods.shtml/

Unfortunately I can only get this link to take you to the home page for the site, but if you go to holidays, you can find a section on Purim foods.

ilene

marygott · **Joined:** Fri Jan 09, 2009 4:34 pm **Posts:** 2011

I never knew Purim was a getting drunk holiday! That is great, beats Hanukkah by a mile. I married into a Jewish family (or as I like to call them, Jew-ish) but we never do the fun stuff. I do have some recipes for infused vodka that are pretty darn good.

I also just heard of a Jewish/Scottish fusion restaurant in LA where one of their specialties is matzo balls wrapped in bacon. I am guessing this won't make your short list though.

Mary

gardnercook · **Posted:** Mon Mar 21, 2011 5:03 pm

As a non-observent Jew, I'm thinking Matzoh Balls wrapped in bacon sounds pretty good....my aunt, who kept a Kosher home, is probably turning over right now.
ilene

Da Bull Man · **Posted:** Mon Mar 21, 2011 6:18 pm

gardnercook wrote:

As a non-observent Jew, I'm thinking Matzoh Balls wrapped in bacon sounds pretty good....my aunt, who kept a Kosher home, is probably turning over right now.
ilene

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