2010 April 09 | Kosher Recipes and Jewish Table Settings

Spaghetti Squash Marinara

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Spaghetti Squash is a great alternative to eating pasta. Top it with this quick and easy marinara sauce and enjoy it guilt free!

Ingredients for this Kosher Recipe:

1 Spaghetti Squash cut lengthwise

Sauce ingredients

1 jar of your favorite Marinara sauce
1 Pint Grape or cherry tomatoes sliced lengthwise
1 can black olives sliced
1 onion chopped
3-5 garlic cloves crushed
Dried Oregano
Red Pepper Flakes if you wish to make sauce spicy

Preparation for Squash

Preheat oven to 350

Cut spaghetti squash lengthwise and scoop out seeds. Roast on tray face down for 30-45 min. Using heat-proof gloves, scoop out the “spaghetti” with a fork.

For Sauce

Saute onion and garlic in a little olive oil. Add grape tomatoes and olives and saute for about 1-2 minutes. Add sauce and bring to a boil. Cover and simmer for about 15 minutes checking frequently. Season with dried oregano. Pour over squash and serve.

Recipe Courtesy of Frieda Shama

Gladys’s Healthy “Baked Ziti” (thejewishhostess.com)

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Heavenly Whole Wheat Challah

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This recipe for Whole Wheat Challah can be used with entirely white flour, or in the whole wheat version below. Either way it is absolutely delicious!

2 1/2 pounds whole wheat flour

2 1/2 pounds unbleached all purpose white flour

6 envelopes Fleischmann’s Rapid Rise Highly Active Yeast Dissolved in 4 cups warm water and 1
Tablespoon sugar

Kosher Recipe Ingredients

1 cup vegetable oil

4 eggs

2 1/2 cups sugar

5 Tablespoons Kosher salt

4 Tablespoons honey

1 Egg for egg wash

Directions for this Kosher Recipe

1. In a large bowl dissolve the yeast in 4 cups warm water and 1 Tbs sugar. Stir with spoon to make sure its combined. Cover with towel and set aside until mixture bubbles.

2. Meanwhile, mix eggs, oil, and sugar in bread machine until combined. Add salt and honey and continue to mix. Add yeast and then flour and mix until well combined and dough is not sticky. Knead with hands if necessary.

Grease a very large bowl or roaster (I spray Pam), and place dough. Cover with plastic wrap that has been sprayed with Pam as well. Place a towel over the plastic wrap and let rise 2-3 hours.

Braid or knot dough in a baking tin or tray. Let rise another 2 hours.

Brush egg over challah. Sprinkle with sesame seeds and bake until golden on 350.

Challah can be frozen at this point.