Mrs. Feinberg's Vegetable Kugel (P)

Amarante ↓

Thu, Mar 30 2023, 4:41 pm

One of my aunts would make these as muffins to the delight of all the cousins.

MRS. FEINBERG’S VEGETABLE KUGEL

Excerpt From: Joan Nathan - Joan Nathan's Jewish Holiday Cookbook

MAKES 24 MUFFINS; SERVES 6–8. (P)

Try this Cincinnati vegetable kugel, one of the most popular recipes in the original edition of The Jewish Holiday Kitchen. It came from the late Rosa Feinberg, wife of Rabbi Louis Feinberg. Each year, my friend Arthur Schwartz, host of WOR radio’s Food Talk with Arthur Schwartz, tells me the recipe cannot work because it has no eggs. Each year, I call Mrs. Feinberg’s daughter-in-law Micky in a panic before I make it. It has no eggs, and it is a great recipe.

1 cup grated apple
1 cup grated peeled sweet potato
1 cup grated carrot
1 cup matzah meal
¼ pound (1 stick) pareve margarine, melted
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
½ cup sugar

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees and grease a 10-inch casserole or two 12-cup muffin tins.

Mix all the ingredients together well.

Pour into the baking dish. Cover with aluminum foil and bake 45 minutes. If you are using muffin tins, bake 30 minutes.

Raise the heat to 350 degrees, remove the cover, and bake an additional 15 minutes.
Slice and serve hot as a vegetable with meat.

Note: A food processor makes this recipe effortless. Yes, baking soda, a pure product and not a leavening agent, can be used at Passover.

↑ Amarante ↓

Thu, Mar 30 2023, 5:14 pm

amother Periwinkle wrote:

If you don't use margarine on pesach, would oil work?

I think so because the margarine is melted so it is essentially liquid oil. You would just have to determine what the equivalent amount of oil would be so the proportions are correct.

amother

↑ Periwinkle

Fri, Mar 31 2023, 1:32 am

amother Sapphire wrote:

I’m assuming if u don’t use margarine you probably also don’t use matzah meal….

Why not? Pesach margarine with a mehadrin askenazi hashgacha doesn't exist in Israel. Sometimes we freeze olive oil to approximate the texture, but it doesn't really work very well.

We have no problem with gebrochts, and use matza meal as and when necessary.

↑ Amarante

Fri, Mar 31 2023, 8:54 am

Frumwithallergies wrote:

Thanks Amanrante!
This looks yum!
I found a conversion for margarine to oil:

1/4 margarine = 3 tablespoons oil

As an aside, have you ever tried adding an egg? It seems almost heretical to not cook with eggs on pesach Smile

From the recipe I posted - these are Joan Nathan's comments/notes LOL

Try this Cincinnati vegetable kugel, one of the most popular recipes in the original edition of The Jewish Holiday Kitchen. It came from the late Rosa Feinberg, wife of Rabbi Louis Feinberg. Each year, my friend Arthur Schwartz, host of WOR radio’s Food Talk with Arthur Schwartz, tells me the recipe cannot work because it has no eggs. Each year, I call Mrs. Feinberg’s daughter-in-law Micky in a panic before I make it. It has no eggs, and it is a great recipe.