Potato Pie Recipe. Chicken Variation
Moroccan Potato Pie
This is a great favorite in our Moroccan cuisine. This rustic dish (called Amhammar in Arabic) is a good example of how we make something rich (eggs) or starchy (potatoes) go a long way. Consider it an eggy cousin of…
Parsnips in Moroccan Hot and Sweet Sauce Recipe
Poor parsnips too often serve as crowd actor
And then, ultimate indignity, they get discarded, as in chicken soup. Pfffttt, just like that! Not fair!
But in this delicious dish, parsnips are IT!
You will also love the simplicity of the dish.…
Moroccan Spicy Nut Truffles Recipe
Nut Truffles
They are for nut lovers only. All others need not apply. Sort of like the famous Pfeffernusse, only Sephardi style. Moroccan, to be exact. They make a perfect gift too.
Move over chocolate, and enjoy your day off: you’re…
LEVANA COOKS WITH OSEM MATZAH PRODUCTS: FARFEL WITH ONIONS AND MUSHROOMS RECIPE
Farfel is nothing more than matzah cut up small and calibrated for quick cooking. I use the Osem whole wheat version, with wonderful results.
You will love the robustness of the whole-grain flavor. No need to wait for Passover to make this…
LEVANA COOKS WITH OSEM MATZAH PRODUCTS: PASSOVER BROWNIE RECIPE
Passover brownies are virtually undiscernable from year-round brownies, because there is so little flour in the whole preparation that making Passover brownies substituting tapioca starch or potato starch for the flour is a painless transition.…
Quinoa with Fried Onions and Chestnuts Recipe
Quinoa with Fried Onions and Chestnuts Recipe
I love quinoa, on Passover and year-round. A staple in South America, it's a nutritional powerhouse, and delicious too, and so versatile! Quinoa comes in white, red and black, as I did here, so…
Baked Salmon in Basil Tomato Sauce Recipe
This baked salmon is one of the best salmon dishes you will ever taste.
Two simple secrets to perfect baked salmon:
The first is hardly a secret by now, but I can’t emphasize it enough: do not cook a second longer than instructed. The second:…
Herb-Roasted Trout in Grape Leaves Recipe
Herb-Roasted Trout in Grape Leaves
Grape leaves are delightful, not only for stuffing but for wrapping fish or chicken, leaving you with a moist and fragrant dish. This dish is overlaid with my favorite Moroccan flavors. I love to serve this…
Brisket in Coffee Bourbon Sauce Recipe
Brisket in Coffee Bourbon Sauce
Another winner (scroll down for my original brisket).
My brisket Bechor is my famous Brisket in Sweet and Sour Sauce. A classic! You will get no end of fabulous Seder Dishes ideas in my big Seder Menu…
Chocolate-Dipped Coconut Meringues Recipe
Coconut Meringues: Chocolate-dipped!
This is serious delicious trouble!
Kids, please: Don't let's get into a turf war with the distinguished and wonderful French Macarons, or with the somewhat less distinguished and ubiquitous canned Passover…
Artichokes and Carrots in Lemon Sauce Recipe
Artichokes are a Sephardi favorite.
In Morocco they are a staple, and I remember a variety I haven’t seen anywhere else: tiny, with pointed leaves as sharp as thorns, which we used to eat by the dozen at the end of a meal as dessert, much…
Raita Recipe with Mint and Cucumber
Raita is a cool and delicious way to put out fires in curries,
But It is delicious even on its own
Mint, cucumber, yogurt:
What could be more fun and more yum than this flavor lineup? And you will love the chunky texture.
No problem making…