Passover Food Ideas

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My favourite Jewish holiday of the year is Passover.  We celebrate with a big family dinner (called a seder) where we retell the story of Passover and eat a lot of very yummy symbolic food.  What exactly you eat during the seder depends on where your ancestors are from.  We eat a lot of yummy salads made from carrots, eggplant, beets, leeks and red peppers to name a few.  We follow that up with salmon and usually finish off with a roasted lamb.  The other thing we eat that is different is matzah.  Matzah is unleavened bread and looks like a big cracker.  We aren’t allowed to eat any bread for 8 days during Passover, so we eat a lot of matzah.  Over the years I have come up with many different ways to prepare it and make it seem fun and fresh for the kids.  Here are some of my best ideas:

1 – Matzah grilled cheese (this one is easy, just sprinkled grated cheese on the matzah and put it under the broiler til melted).

2 – Matzah croque monsieur (matzah, turkey lunch meat, mustard and grated cheese under the broiler until melted).

3 – Cheese cake with a matzah crumb crust (just prepare as you normally would but substitute graham cracker crumbs with matzah crumbs, and no leavening agents or flour allowed).

4 – Matzah French toast (made the normal way but with matzah instead of bread – not exactly the same but a fun treat)

5 – Matzah with Nutella (nothing special about this but it is my favourite way to eat it…nothing compares in my book).

6 – Matzah pizza (matzah, pizza sauce, cut up peppers, sliced mushrooms, grated mozzarella under the broiler until melted).

I am always experimenting and coming up with new ways to make it fun and different…so if you have any ideas, leave them in the comments so I can try them out 🙂

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