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You can serve these as is or make an entire spread. These dishes can be mixed in as sides or you can serve them as the main course.

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Kasha Varnishkes

This dish consists of two main ingredients: kasha and Varnishkes, which is the Yiddish word for bow-tie pasta.

Hamantashen

On the surface, Hamantashen seem to have all of the qualities of a good cookie. In order to keep them dairy-free, many Hamentashen cookies use margarine instead. Have you ever tasted a shortbread cookie baked without butter? It’s not great.

Coconut Macaroons

These balls of gooey coconut goodness are the reward for sitting through an entire Passover Seder.

Matzo Brei

Dipped in egg, layered and fried on the stove, this dish is almost good enough to make you forget that you can’t eat bread for a week.

Kugel

This traditional Jewish dish consists of noodles or potato baked into a casserole. Unlike the kasha, liver, and gefilte fish, Kugel is made up of basic ingredients that everyone, Jewish and non-Jewish, has encountered before.

Manishewitz Wine

Looks like grape juice. Tastes like grape juice. Gets you messed up like wine.

Babka

Before the cronut, there was Babka. In its purest form, Babka is made of a buttery and moist yeasted dough that somewhere between challah and coffee cake. The dough is then swirled with chocolate or cinnamon, topped with crumbly streusel, and baked.

Blintzes

Mexicans have the burrito, Italians have the cannoli, the Jews have blintzes. Essentially, a blintz is a Jewish crepe with roots in Eastern Europe. Unlike their French counterpart, these super-thin pancakes are not topped with Nutella or sugar and lemon. Instead, they are filled with different jams or a sweet cheese mixture.

Knishes

Nope, it’s not a hot pocket. But it sure as heck seems like it. These pastries may be baked, grilled, or fried and can be stuffed with pretty much anything you want.

Rugelach

First things first, there are many many different spelling/pronunciations for this food. This Jewish treat is kinda similar to a croissant and is traditionally rolled up with a chocolate or cinnamon filling.

Challah

Challah can be too dry, but a good slice of this braided bread is like nothing else in the world.

Matzo Ball Soup

If there’s one thing that every Jew can agree on, it’s that Matzo ball soup has healing powers greater than anything you can buy over the counter.

Latkes

If you’ve ever had a french fry, a tater tot, or a hash brown, you know that there’s really no way to mess up fried potatoes. But somehow, the classic latke transcends its other fried-spud counterparts as one of the best Jewish foods of all time.

Jewish Deli

However, it’s not just the meat and the bread that make the Jewish deli experience one of the finest displays of excellence in Jewish cuisine.

It’s also the juicy, crunchy pickle that cuts through the richness of your pastrami sandwich and the can of Dr. Brown’s soda to wash it all down. All of these elements work together to form a culinary experience that no other culture can top.

Bagels and Lox

Behold. The number-one most amazing Jewish food. From birth, young Jews are taught to appreciate a good bagel, slathered in cream cheese and topped with smoked salmon, and perhaps a few capers and some sliced red onion or tomato.

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