Need kugel substitute

Platinum Member Joined: Jan 01 2006 Posts: 48159

We are not big kugel fans.

I am not that good with orzo or pasta salads, any ideas for what I can serve with the chicken Friday night and put on the blech (plata) by day?

Thanks.

Executive Member Joined: Apr 13 2005 Posts: 296

I rarely make kugal but either stick baby potatoes under the chicken before I roast it or make rice etc.
I don't serve this on Shabbos day, so I can't answer that part.

Active Poster Joined: Dec 11 2005 Posts: 89

burekas
asian noodle chicken salad (cold)

Diamond Member Joined: Oct 24 2005 Posts: 4689

potato salad. NBN (no blech needed).
tabouli salad, ditto.
home fries (won't be crisp next day)
Spanish rice, fried rice and the like.

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Green beans

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Any veggie instead of starch (I do like the green bean idea, especially with almonds or something in it or...)
*stir-fry some veggies
*brocolli (we like to make a mayo/mustard tartar-like sauce to serve with it)
*rice with mushrooms

Platinum Member Joined: Jan 01 2006 Posts: 48159

we eat so much of that stuff duyring the week, nothing "spcial"?

Posted: Mon, Jul 17 2006, 3:07 pm Post subject: re: Need kugel substitute

It's nice to have an additional side dish as variety, oneg shabbos etc., but we never leave out the kugel. There are very deep ruchnius'dik and Kabbalah reasons for eating kugel, and it is a very strong minhag yisrael. The word kugel comes from the Hebrew word K' Igul, like a circle. (more about this later)

In "Halichos uMinhagei Shabbos Kodesh" about the minhagim of the Rebbeim, compiled by R. Michel Zeligson:

The Rebbe RaShab would eat the kugel first, before the meat or chicken. because it is "like the ring before the Nisuiin".

The Alter Rebbe said that Kugel on shabbos is like the mitzvah of Shofar on Rosh HaShana. (sicha of Shabbos Shelach 5730 par.5., sippurei Chabad vol 15 p. 231)

But don't despair, there are hundreds of different kinds of kugel for every kind of palate Razz

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I would like a starch, but not a crazy fattening one like kugel, and it's just not that popular in our house.

Except potato kugel, which we make sometimes.

If I hadn't moved and was forced to eat up everything in the big freezer, I'd have kugels from Tishre frozen still!

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Scalloped potatoes are delicious, but I'm too lazy to make them.

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Gold Member Joined: May 04 2006 Posts: 1720

I make mushrooms with cumin , vegies with chicken consomme, okra in tomato sauce, mixed potato dish or stuffed artichoke bottoms, I make these sometimes, when I am in the mood. we dont eat much kugel in my house, so its always salads, dips, vegies.
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Platinum Member Joined: Jan 01 2006 Posts: 48159

Deli roll is a main and is a big hit in our house; we have it once or twice a month.

A fancy rice would be okay I guess, since we eat plain rice so much during the week.

Gold Member Joined: May 04 2006 Posts: 1720

you can make rice with spinach, or with safron, or with pine nuts,rice with fruit, etc

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Platinum Member Joined: Jan 01 2006 Posts: 48159

I have tried canned potato before and it wasn't for us, but thanks for trying.

I'll look into some fancy rice dishes I gues...I just hope I don't dryit out on the plata (blech)...

Platinum Member Joined: Oct 27 2005 Posts: 6749

Someone I know makes a "kugel" that's really more like a vegetable, no fat or anything, I'll ask her later when she gets home for the recipe.

saute 2 big onions, add 2 very large sliced zuchinni or 6 regular sized (cucumer length-not tiny)- slice it in half lengthwise, then cut slices - add to onions & cook uncovered maybe 3 min on small gas, add a cup of choice of mixed veg or string beans cover for another 3-5 min. Remove from fire, uncover, mix in 2 eggs or 1 egg and 2 egg whites, (opt; 1 tbsp mayo) , onion powder and a tiny bit garlic powder, (salt optional), add less than 1/4 cup instant mashed potatoes, MIX, sprinkle 2 round pan bottoms with corn flake crumbs, add mixture, cover with thin layer of corn flake crumbs on top, bake uncovered 1/2 hour.

Gold Member Joined: May 04 2006 Posts: 1720

I guess my rice dishes sudgestions are boring. Crying or Very sad