Israel traditional food

Five tasty dishes to warm up on long winter weekends

To make each weekend a celebration look at these five wonderful meat stews that we really love. These dishes require almost no preparation. They just need to “stew” and cook patiently.

PUMPKIN STEW with carrots and raisins
Prohibition Goods

Food Review: Prohibition Pickle

Pascale's recipes for the 2021 Seder

Pascale's Kitchen: Seder Night

Bunuelos are small balls of fried dough with a sweet or salty filling.

Family recipes helped me discover my hidden Sephardi history


Showcasing shakshouka

A November festival at Benedict, red and green versions at Café 65.

Benedict

Etrog: The Sukkot symbol with Chinese roots

In ancient times, people would simply use whichever fruits they had harvested in that season, such as pomegranates, grapes, dates and figs.

The Succot citron, etrog,  is protectively wrapped in silky flax padding and safeguarded in a covered ornamental box.

Seven dishes for 70 years

The Tel Aviv Hilton offers a tasty tasting menu

Dishes from the Tel Aviv Hilton's tasting menu

Cultural flavors of the Galilee

Hebrew-language cookbooks that offer recipes from Galilee minorities exist, but there’s none in English to compare with this one.

The Galilean Kitchen: Cultural Flavors

Israeli cuisine: How did we get here?

Israeli cuisine is a hot topic

‘Salat, beitzah, hatzilim’: Sabich is comprised of a pita  lled with fried eggplant slices, hard- boiled eggs, often a potato element, assorted salads, tehina and amba.

In the grain: Rain and bread

Does rainy weather affect your baking?

Bread

Kubbeh soup hits NYC

Restaurant joins growing trend of Israeli eateries in the Big Apple.

Kubbeh soup

Pascale’s kitchen: From the old country

Cooking up Tunisian memories with Channel 2’s Rina Matzliach

Channel 2's 2’S Rina Matzliach

Israeli chefs take hamantaschen to a new culinary level

The traditional Ashkenazi-Jewish food is getting a major culinary upgrade in Tel Aviv.

Hamantaschen cookies for Purim, "Oznei Haman" in Hebrew ‏

The Tisch: Halla bookends

The halla bookends need not be bread; they can be halla of a different sort: prayer and blessings for others.

The blessings we make on halla in our home are meant to reflect on and symbolize the sacrifices in the Temple

Israelis suffer heavy defeat to Egypt in London's 'falafel war'

Egyptian media mocked the Israeli loss claiming Israel had tried to hijack Arab culture by chosing falafel as it's national dish.

Falafel balls