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Kreplach

An "old style" authentic holiday favorite

Kreplach are small squares of rolled pasta dough filled with ground beef or chicken and folded into triangles. They can be boiled and served in soup or fried and served as a side dish. They are traditionally served at the pre-Yom Kippur meal, on the seventh day of Sukkot (Hoshanah Rabbah) and on Purim.

DOUGH: 1¾ C flour
2 eggs
½ tsp. Salt
3 Tbsp. Oil

FILLING
1 cup ground cooked beef or chicken
1 small onion, grated
1 tsp. salt

DOUGH: in a large bowl combine dough ingredients together. Knead and roll out thin on floured board. Cut into 3-inch squares or circles.

FILLING: in a small bowl mix filling ingredients well. See Kreplach illustrated for filling and folding. Kreplach can now be either boiled and served in soup or sauted in oil.

TO BOIL: Place in boiling salted water. Cook approximately 20 minutes until kreplach float to top.

TO SAUTE: Heat oil over medium flame in 10-inch skillet. Saute boiled kreplach until golden brown on both sides.

NOTE: Dough will roll out more easily after being wrapped in a damp cloth for one hour.

YIELDS: 18 Kreplach


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Excerpted from Spice and Spirit, The Complete Kosher Jewish Cookbook, published by Lubavitch Women's Cookbook Publications

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Posted: July 3, 2009
To Rose:
Traditionally, these are eaten on Purim, the day before Yom Kippur, and the seventh day of Sukkot. There are a number of explanations for this. One of them is that these are three holidays when we are obligated to eat a celebratory meal but do not mark the celebration with not doing any work acts. Since the celebration is “hidden,” we eat foods where the filler is hidden in the dough.
Posted By Menachem Posner for Chabad.org

Posted: June 30, 2009
sukkot
why do we eat "stuffed" foods on sukkot?
Posted By rose rosenkranz, riviera beach, fl

Posted: Jan 19, 2009
Re: Robert Cork's recipe
Be sure and use a kosher vegetable broth to cook your spinach-cheese kreplach in, Robert. Otherwise you will be mixing milk and meat, as you probably already know.

The spinach cheese ones sound delicious, actually. Have you ever tried using a feta-type cheese? That always seems to go well with nice spinach.
Posted By Kelly Rae, Sydney, AU



 


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