Salads/dips

Posted: Sun, Jul 20 2008, 2:05 pm Post subject: Salads/dips

What do you usually serve Friday night? Some people I know serve like 20 small dips/salads, all homemade!!

I need ideas and recipes, since DH and my guests love it.

So far I buy or make:

Chummus, techina, tomato dip, the big stuffed olives, roasted peppers, eggplant dip/fried sliced, olive oil w/ garlic.

Salads: Israeli, Cabbage salad, mixed veg salad, strawberry/mango/pecan/mixed lettuce salad (suprisingly popular)

Thats pretty much it Rolling Eyes

I feel like thats nothing compared to some.

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Spicy salmon in sauce, babaganoush, yebra (stuffed grape leaves), chick pea salad, roasted pepper salad, avocado salad, lemony lettuce salad, potatoe salad, matbuchah, olive tapenade...the list goes on and on. I do all or some depending on guests or not...
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Posted: Sun, Jul 20 2008, 2:21 pm Post subject: re: Salads/dips

OMG YUM
If you feel like it can you PM or post the recipes for the lemony lettuce salad, chick pea salad, potato salad, and do you buy the stuff grape leaves?

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Carrot salad, beet salad, shumar (what is that veggie which tastes like licorice), zucchini, spicy sweet potato - there are not things I make but its on the Moroccan's Shabbat table, along with the eggplant, matbucha etc already mentioned.

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Posted: Sun, Jul 20 2008, 3:09 pm Post subject: re: Salads/dips

My parents have a grape vine in their front yard and the Indians used to always take the leaves. Now they don't because it looks terrible anyway. Sad

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Posted: Sun, Jul 20 2008, 3:17 pm Post subject: re: Salads/dips

We have chumus, techina, soy beans (edamame), quinoa salad, carrot salad, cut up peppers, pickles, lettuce salad, tartar sauce salad, macaroni salad with pickles, arbis (chumus balls), sometimes coleslaw, potato salad, sweet potato salad, broiled eggplant, broiled squash.
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Executive Member Joined: Mar 28 2007 Posts: 410

Lady Godiva, Where can I buy grape leaves in a non-sephardic community? I'm waiting for your recipe, yum! I worked in two schools that served sephardic food for lunch- it's the best!

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YEBRA (Stuffed Grape Leaves)

The grape leaves come in a glass jar with liquid in it. My favorite brand is "Orlando" because the leaves are so nice and big. You can buy them in a supermarket.

1/2 lb. grape leaves
2 cups rice
1 large onion, chopped
3 large tomatoes, peeled and chopped
2 tablespoons chopped parsley
2 tablespoons crushed dried mint leaves
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon allspice
salt to taste
6 cloves garlic, peeled
1/2 cup olive oil
1/4 cup lemon juice
1 teaspoon sugar

* Wash grape leaves with cold water.
* Put rice in pot. Just cover rice with water. Boil rice in water for a few minutes until water is soaked into rice.
* Mix rice, tomatoes, onion, parsley, mint, cinnamon, allspice and salt together.
* Spread 1 grape leaf on a plate, vein side up. Put 1 heaping teaspoon of rice mixture in the center of the leaf near the stem. Cut off the stem and fold that end up over filling. Fold one side of the leaf towards the center and then the other side. Roll up like a cigar starting from folded stem side.
* Fill all the leaves and roll up the same way.
* Place the stuffed leaves tightly in a large pot. Place garlic cloves between leaves.
* Mix oil, lemon and sugar and pour over stuffed leaves.
* Add water to pot just enough to cover leaves.
* Put a small plate on top of leaves to prevent unwinding.
* Cover pot and simmer on a low flame for about 1 hour.
* Cool in pot before turning over.
* Serve cold.

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Thanks a million!!

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Posted: Mon, Jul 21 2008, 5:57 am Post subject: re: Salads/dips

hotmama shumar you can only get in the winter.

I make more salads in the winter cus then I make a hot spicy morrocan nile fish...

in the summerwhen it's late I just stick with jarred gefilta, but I will put out chumus.. though less salads in te summer.

though I always make the plain old tcp....

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hey to add two more beets salad and saute mushrooms and onion on top of chummus

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Delicious shumar (fennel, thank you): slice fennel without the tubes, 2-3 carrots cut in matchsticks, 4-5 stalks celery sliced, raddish diced. Make an olive oil/lemon juice (FRESH)/salt marinade and let chill for a while. Superb!

Posted: Wed, Nov 25 2009, 12:08 am Post subject: Re: re: Salads/dips

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I'd love that allspice dressing and the tomato salad with allspice/cumin!
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