Moroccan Eggplant Salad Recipe
Eggplant Salad
Eggplant is a huge favorite in our Sephardi Cooking. We prepare eggplant in dozens of ways, even for dessert! This dish is all roasted, so it is pretty streamlined, and pretty lean. Anything not to have to fry eggplant:…
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…
Moroccan Spicy Meatballs Tajine Recipe
Spicy Meatballs
Meatballs are our Sephardi answer to hamburgers. You didn’t think we would let ourselves get outdone, did you?
In this dish, chicken livers, chicken breasts and lamb get equal time; the finished dish is above and beyond…
Fish Tajine Recipe. Fishballs Variation
Fish Tajine
My Fish Tajine is excerpted from my latest cookbook, The Whole Foods Kosher Kitchen.
I just cannot tell you without incurring a serious risk of bragging, how many thousands of my fans make it: it has even become…
Moroccan Spinach Lamb Soup Recipe
Lamb Soup is overlaid with Moroccan flavors.
Mine smells as heavenly as it tastes. We know our lamb!
For many years, my classroom was in Lincoln Square Synagogue. The teacher himself later told me that he found teaching exquisite torture…
Vegetarian Burgers Recipes. Fish/Meat Variations
Vegetarian Burgers
Vegetarian burgers are wonderful and super easy to put together. A complete-meal cousin of the Big Happy Latkas Family. Just as you can make latkas with virtually any vegetable (and fruit), so can you make burgers with…
Pastilla Recipe. Working with Fillo
Pastilla
Not for nothing has it been voted one of the world’s great dishes.
It takes just one delightful bite to understand why. Pastilla epitomizes Moroccan cuisine, spicy and sweet, delicate and intriguing.
Pastilla is a little…
Spinach Borekas Recipe. Filling Variations
Borekas are the perfect occasional treat:
Ethereally light and crunchy, and so easy to make.
Borekas are a great Israeli Favorite
They are sold as street foods practically as often as they are served in restaurants.
There are no fillings…
Salmon with Pomegranate Sauce Recipe
Pomegranate sauce works beautifully with salmon
Sweet-and-sour combinations are a great Sephardi favorite.
The onions caramelize play off the vinegar.
Another quick and delicious dish, just the way I like it—one pan, one step.
I hope…
Brussels Sprouts Tomato Sauce Recipe. Pasta Adaptation
Brussels sprouts, zucchini and tomatoes:
Mediterranean flavors at their best! Brussels Sprouts dishes are a frequent Passover and year-round treat at my table.
I find Brussels sprouts somewhat underrated and underused in our country.
They…
Vegetarian Couscous Recipe. Meat and Poultry Variations.
Vegetarian Couscous is wonderful and fun
And Couscous is the rock star of Moroccan cuisine.
You can make couscous with many exciting vegetable combinations. Here are just two other combos for you, all delicious: Summer vegetable couscous
This…
Yemenite Soup with Beef Recipe. Gluten-Free
Yemenite Soup
This is a meal onto itself. It is also a wonderful comfort food. Vegetables, meat, spices, it's all there. All you need with Yemenite Soup to round out the meal is some hunks of good dunking bread and salad. Perfect expat…