Gefilte Fish (makes 6 balls)
Love it or hate it, gefilte fish is undeniably up there in the Jewish food hall of fame. So get gefiltering...
Ingredients:
1 lb. minced hake (or any white fish)
3 grated hard-boiled eggs
1 large grated Spanish onion
Salt and pepper
Sugar
1 raw egg
½ eggshell of water
Stock
1 sliced
Spanish onion
2 sliced carrots
2 stick celery
4 teaspoons sugar
Mix fish, hard-boiled eggs, onion, seasoning and raw egg. If necessary add ½ eggshell of cold water. Taste and adjust seasoning.
Fill a large pan 1/3 full of water, a little salt and ½ a teaspoon of pepper.
Add carrots, onion, celery and sugar then bring the water to the boil.
Make balls of the fish and drop into boiling water. Simmer for about 2-2½ hours then leave to cool in the pan. Pour the stock over the fish balls in another dish before serving.
Garnish with the infamous carrot hat!
Other traditional recipes
- Chrane
- Doughnuts
- Potato Latkas
- Holishkes
- Egg Lockshen
- Cheese Cake
- Honey Cake (makes 2 cakes)
- Matzo Brei
- Coconut Pyramids
- Cinnamon Balls
- Tsimmes & Dumplings
- Roast Chicken (serves 6)
- Lockshen Pudding
- Kneidlach
- Fried Fish Balls (makes 18-20)
- Chopped Liver (serves 4)
- Chopped Herring (serves 6)
- Chicken Soup (serves 8)
- Challah (1 loaf)









