Even if you don’t celebrate Passover, these recipes are light and delicious.
Your Healthy Pesach Toolkit is here!
- Nice thoughts for a great week and previous Passover posts with tons of healthy recipes and tips! (from last week)
and below…tools 2-4 - Your Spa-like Passover Menu – 2 new HFHY veggie recipes – and my favorite healthy Passover recipes from around the web
- A Super Duper Helpful Vegan Passover Cookbook
- Spiralizer recipes and ideas. Free e-cookbook.
TOOL #2 PESACH SPA MENU
Because you deserve a healthy week!
I made this for Shabbat a few weeks ago, without the greens, as it reminded me of a salad I’ve bought before at the deli. I didn’t have time to go there so I made it up myself. I then made it with the greens for my cousin’s bridal shower. There were about two bites left from the gigantic bowl.
The Caterer’s Salad
Serves: 15-20 (to lower the servings, simply lower the amount of greens you use)
Ingredients
1 very large box mixed baby spinach and spring mix salad (or other greens if you prefer)
1 can sliced hearts of palm (Depending on the size of the slices, you may want to slice the slices in half).
1 can quartered artichoke hearts
1 can sliced black olives
1 or 2 pints cherry tomatoes, sliced
1 bottle Italian dressing (As natural as possible! I’m not recommending a specific brand here because what you can use will depend on whether you’re making this salad for Passover or during the rest of the year. I recently used Brianna (newly hechshered!) French Vinaigrette and it was amazing. However, that won’t work for Passover. I may just make my own.)
Directions
Place the greens on the bottom of a large salad bowl. Place the rest of the ingredients on the top of the greens. Pour on some dressing (Start with half a cup? I didn’t measure. You should be able to eyeball this.) and toss gently. Add more dressing and mix again if needed. Remember, you can always add, but you can’t take away.
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Easiest. Side. Dish. Ever. Only 3 ingredients.
Baby Spinach with Pine Nuts and Golden Raisins
How much spinach and other ingredients you use will depend on how many people you are feeding. Just remember that spinach cooks down A LOT.
Serves: as many as you need/just increase ingredients…
Ingredients
Fresh baby spinach
Pine nuts (Start with a handful and then go up to ¼ cup, depending on how much spinach you are using)
Golden raisins (Start with a handful and then go up to ¼ cup, depending on how much spinach you are using).
Directions
Dry toast the pine nuts in a non-stick pan until fragrant but barely browned, stirring often.
Cook spinach on the stove in your largest sauté pan, with 1 Tablespoon of water. Depending on how much you are making, you may have to do this in batches, taking out the cooked spinach and placing it in your serving bowl or storage container, as you go. Just fill up the pan with spinach to start. Simply place the top on your pan and let it steam for a few minutes, then stir.
Be sure to stir every few minutes so that all of the spinach is cooked, not just what’s on the bottom. I like to use a large sauté pan I have with a clear top. Then I know exactly what’s going on in there and when I need to stir. After each batch is done, take it out and start with a new batch of raw spinach and new tablespoon of water.
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Other tasty recipes from around the web…
Orange Pistachio Quinoa Ever since I found this for last Passover, I have been making this Quinoa as much as I can get away with it, without my guests and family getting sick of it.
Raw mock tuna from Jennifer Cornbleet. For kitniyot purposes, I’m going to substitute cashews for the sunflower seeds.
Chocolate truffle pie from Mayim Bialik. This is seriously crack! Make at your own peril!
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TOOL #3 A Super Duper Helpful Vegan Passover Cookbook
My huge discovery last year: I wasn’t the only one trying to be vegan on Passover. Even better, this fabulous gal, Rena Reich, of www.veganstart.com, wrote a cookbook for it! (For a quick kitniyot meal this week, see my guest post on her blog, 10 minute Taco Bar.)
Vegan Start Passover Cookbook: Eat Well on Pesach!
I have the Kindle edition, which was the only one offered last year. This year, both are updated and there is also a print option. These are also super handy if you are NOT vegan, but are allergic to eggs.
As Mara from www.KosherOnABudget.com always writes, Amazon pricing can change on a dime, so please confirm prices before you check-out. I got mine for a great price, but check the widget (picture) for the current price. Also, if you have an Ad Blocker installed on your web browser, you will need to pause it in order to see the widgets.
My favorite recipes include:
- Potato Kugel (I had to stop making this all-year-round. It was too good and I was eating too much!)
- Carrot Kugel
- Matzo Meal Pancakes
AND FINALLY…
Spiralizer recipes and ideas. Free e-cookbook.Spiralizing for Passover
I ordered THIS spiralizer and got 3 FREE e-cookbooks (sent to me over the course of a few days) to go with it. For my purposes, only the first one was helpful, but if you are NOT vegan and you ARE into Paleo, you’ll also love the other two. In the first spiralizer e-cookbook, a large number of the veggie-centric recipes can be used for Pesach, although of course a number of them do contain kitniyot as it isn’t a kosher for Passover, or even kosher, cookbook. However, most recipes involve veggies that will work for Pesach.
Quick idea from the book: Cucumber noodles, lemon juice and zest with cumin and sea salt to taste
Quick idea from me: Spiralized carrot noodles with golden raisins and cinnamon, fresh-squeezed juice of 1 orange
As Mara from www.KosherOnABudget.com always writes, Amazon pricing can change on a dime, so please confirm prices before you check-out. I got mine for a great price, but check the widget (picture) for the current price. Also, if you have an Ad Blocker installed on your web browser, you will need to pause it in order to see the widgets.
Chag Sameach! You can look forward to my Mother’s Day Menu right after Pesach ends. Hope to “see” you one more time before or during Passover.
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