Saucy meatballs garnished with fresh herbs
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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…
A pan of food on top of the stove.
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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…
Hearty white bean and greens soup
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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
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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
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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…
borekas
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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 Pomegranate Sauce
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Salmon Pomegranate Sauce Recipe

Salmon Pomegranate Sauce Salmon Pomegranate Sauce. Sweet-and-sour combinations are a great Sephardi favorite, and work beautifully with this salmon dish. The onions caramelize and play off the vinegar. Another quick and delicious…
brussels sprouts
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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…
Couscous
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Couscous Recipe. Meat, Poultry and All Variations

 Couscous   Couscous is the rock star of Moroccan cuisine. The pride and joy of our Moroccan Cuisine. It is as wonderful and fun as it is nutritious. The one pictured above is complete: veggies, chickpeas, chicken, dried fruit,…
Yemenite soup
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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…
steel-cut oats
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Moroccan Steel Cut Oat Soup (Lahshou) Recipe

Steel-Cut Oat Soup This is a most unusual combination of flavors, and it works beautifully. I have no doubt the funky Arabic name (Lahshou) will bring a smile to quite a few cyber-friends out there! When we were children, we were often…
Close-up piped white meringue swirls
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Meringues Recipe with All Variations

Meringues are pure nostalgia food to me. They are to me what madeleines are to Proust. We bought them at street corners after school. Seriously! Not so-distant cousins of the beloved French Macarons, meringues are ethereally light and fragrant.…