A Shavuot Feast

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A fantastic dairy menu your family and guests will love.

 Shavuot Dairy Menu:

Delightful Ambrosia entrée
Dairy Potato Soup or Refreshing Cherry Soup
Fabulous Orzo Garden Salad with Feta Cheese
Soy and Maple Salmon Fillet
Broccoli quiche
Splendid Chocolate Vanilla Swirl Cheese Cake
Amazing Cheese Blintzes

Delightful Ambrosia entrée

Ingredients

3 large vanilla yogurts
1 plain small leben
1 plain small yogurt
1 bag frozen strawberries thawed and blended
Sugar to taste (optional)

Instructions

Mix all ingredients together and allow to stay in refrigerator overnight so strawberries release a nice color. Serve in parfait cups and garnish with a fresh strawberry.

Preparation time 15 minutes

Serves 8

Milky Potato soup

This soup is delicious for year round dairy meals. In our family, it was considered a yummy comfort food.

Ingredients

4 medium potatoes
1 Tbs butter
1 cup chopped onions
6 cups boiling water
2 Tbs chopped parsley (Alei Katif) or parsley flakes
Salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

Melt butter and add chopped onion, cook until onions are translucent 4-5 minutes. Add cubed potatoes. Add rest of ingredients and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium, cook 15 minutes or until tender. Allow to cool. Reserve some potatoes for garnish and blend the rest with an immersion blender. Return potato pieces to the pot, making sure to have some floating on each plate. Garnish with sliced shallots.

Preparation 20 minutes

Serves 8

Refreshing Cherry Apple Soup

Cherry and apples form a great combination. They are high in vitamin C. In our home, they were standard fare for Sholosh Seudos during the summer months.

Ingredients

1 lb cherries pitted
6 Cortland apples peeled and quartered
3 quarts water
½ cup maple syrup or honey to taste
1 large container strawberry yogurt

Instructions

In a pot cook cherries and apples in the water. Add sweetener of your choice. Bring to a boil, and then simmer for 10 minutes, until fruit is soft. Remove a ladleful of cherries and set aside, add yogurt and puree with the blender stick. Return pitted cherries for garnish. Serve cold.

Preparation time 10 minutes

Serves 8

Fabulous Orzo and Feta Cheese Salad

The perfectly festive salad for Shevuos, that is sure to please young and old alike.

Ingredients

For the vinaigrette:
2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
1 shallot, finely chopped
1 garlic clove, finely chopped
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
Salt and freshly ground black pepper

For the salad:
2 cups cooked orzo pasta
12 grape tomatoes cut in half
1/2 cup coarsely chopped red peppers
1/2 cup coarsely chopped yellow peppers
1/2 cup thinly sliced red onions
2 cups baby spinach leaves
1/2 cup crumbled feta cheese
1/2 cup toasted pine nuts
2 Tbs fresh flat leaf parsley, thinly sliced (optional)
2 Tbs chopped fresh shallots, for garnish

Instructions

Make the vinaigrette: Whisk the vinegar, shallot, and garlic in a medium bowl to blend. Slowly drizzle in the oil while whisking until fully incorporated. Season to taste with salt and pepper.

Make the salad: Toss the pasta, tomatoes, spinach, feta cheese, nuts, and parsley in a large bowl with enough vinaigrette to coat. Mound the salad on a large serving platter and sprinkle with the shallots, or serve in individual plates.

Preparation time 20 minutes

Serves 8

Soy & Maple Salmon fillet

This perfect yet different fish recipe is so easy to make thus allowing more time for the luscious desserts. Feel free to use honey if maple syrup is not available.

Ingredients

8 small salmon fillets
Pinches of salt and pepper to taste
4 Tbs (30 mL) each soy sauce and maple syrup
1/2 tsp (2 mL) ground ginger
1 garlic clove minced
Sprouts or parsley for garnish

Instructions

Place salmon fillets in a lightly oiled baking dish just large enough to hold them. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. In a small bowl, stir soy sauce and maple syrup with ground ginger and garlic. Spoon over fish. Broil in top third of oven for about 15-20 minutes. Baste with pan juices halfway through. Place on plates. Pour pan juices over top. Delicious hot or cold.

Preparation 15 minutes

Serves 8

Cauliflower quiche

This quiche is easy to prepare and it is delightfully light and flavorful.

Ingredients

9’ round baking dish
¾ cup cornflake crumbs
2 16 oz. packages Bodek cauliflower
1 large onion diced
1 red pepper diced
3 eggs
½ cup homemade or light mayonnaise
1 Tbs flour
1 pint fresh mushrooms washed and sliced
Salt & pepper to taste

Instructions

Line a 9’ round baking dish with cornflake crumbs, set aside. Sauté onions until they become translucent. Add cauliflower, pepper and mushrooms; when soft, mash and mix in slightly beaten eggs, mayonnaise, salt, and pepper. Pour over prepared baking dish. Bake for 45 minutes on 350. To enjoy it as a dairy dish sprinkle some grated cheese over the quiche during last 10 minutes of baking. To keep it parve sprinkle top with more corn flake crumbs.

Preparation time 20 minutes

Serves 8

Splendid Chocolate Vanilla Swirl Cheese Cake

This recipe looks exotic yet it is delightfully simple to make and delicious. Surprise your guests with this delightful dessert.

Ingredients

20 black and white sandwich cookies, crushed (about 2 cups)
3 Tbs. butter, melted
4 pkg. (250 g each) Brick Cream Cheese, softened
1 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1cup sour cream
4 eggs
6 squares baking chocolate, melted and cooled

Instructions

Preheat oven to 325°F. Line 9x13 inch baking pan with foil, with ends of foil extending over sides of pan. Mix cookie crumbs and butter; press firmly onto bottom of prepared pan. Bake 10 min. Beat cream cheese, sugar and vanilla in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended. Add sour cream; mix well. Add eggs, one at a time, beating on low speed after each addition just until blended. Remove 1 cup of the batter; set aside. Stir melted chocolate into remaining batter; pour over crust. Top with spoonfuls of the remaining 1 cup plain batter; cut through batters with knife several times for swirled effect. Bake 40 minutes or until centre is almost set. Cool. Refrigerate at least 4 hours or overnight. Use foil handles to lift cheesecake from pan before cutting to serve. Store in refrigerator until ready to use.

Preparation time 20 minutes

Serves 16

Amazing Cheese Blintzes

Ingredients

Blintzes
1 c flour
11/2 c milk
2 T oil
2 eggs

Filling
16 oz. farmer cheese
2 egg yolks
2 Tbs flour
2 Tbs sugar
1 tsp vanilla

Instructions

Shells
Mix all ingredients together. Heat a teaspoon of butter or oil in frying pan. When hot, pour in a thin layer of batter, frying until bubbling and golden brown. Flip the shell over and cook the other side until golden brown, approximately 1 minute.

Filling
Combine all ingredients. Put 2-3 tablespoons worth of filling in the middle of each blintz. Fold in two sides of the blintz sheet and then roll blintz to form a nice shape.

Serve with sour cream, or strawberry yogurt and some fresh strawberries.

Preparation 30 minutes

Serves 8-10

 

Happy Shavuot to all!

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