Holiday Cooking & Baking: Purim

Hamentashen (Hamentaschen) & Purim Dinner Recipes

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The Jewish Holiday Baker

50 original recipes for the traditional baked goods associated with the major holidays--challah for Shabbat, hamantashen for Purim, macaroons and matzah for Passover, jelly doughnuts for Chanukah--as well as delicious and exotic alternatives from around the world: Yemenite kubbanah, Turkish boyos, German schnecken, Russian babka, Hungarian strudel, Parisian pletzel, Mexican banana cake, Syrian ka'ak.


The Banquet of Esther and Ahasuerus
1640s, Jan Victor
Oil on canvas
Staatliche Museen, Kassel

Purim Feast- Dinner Recipes

The sheer number of feasts that King Ahashuerus and Queen Ester give during the course of the Story of Purim is truly astounding, but it is for this very reason that the holiday of Purim is very much connected with feasting, food & wine--to pay homage to the feasts of the Kind and Queen. Here you find main course, recipes fit for a Purim feast! Foods that speak to a Persian influence, in honor of Queen Esther, as well as some vegetarian and vegan Purim dinner recipes, because when Queen Esther was hiding the fact she was a Jew while living in the King's Court, however do you suppose she kept kosher? Some therefore, think she may actually have been the Vegan Queen. Maybe you never thought about that, but it makes a lot of sense...doesn't it? Besides the recipes are delicious and non-vegetarians won't even miss the meat!

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Vegetarian/Vegan

Fesenjan-e Bademjan (Eggplant & Pomegranate Braise)
Moroccan-Style Vegetable Stew

Meat

Persian Lamb & Apricot Pilaf
Pollo alle Melograne (Chicken with Pomegranates)

Hamentashen Recipes

Mishloach Manot (literally translated as the "sending of portions") is a standard Purim food tradition, and certainyl a favorite among Jewish college students! These gift baskets are filled with cakes, cookies, nuts, fruits and other treats which are then given to neighbors, friends, as well as the needy. Hamantashan, of course, in all different flavors, often are the centerpiece of these food baskets. No matter how you choose to spell it, Hamentashen, Hamantashen, Hamentaschen or Hamantaschen, they are a must for Purim, which is why we have included these recipes here for you to add a gourmet flair to baskets of your own creation!

Basic Hamentashen Recipe from Grandma Sue

Orejas de Haman (Haman's Ears):
A Sephardic Hamentashen Recipe


Hamentashen w/ a Traditional Poppy Seed (Mohn) Filling

Additional Recipes for Hamentashen Fillings

Chocolate Hamentashen Recipes & Fillings

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