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On Beyond Chicken: Sample Vegetarian Seder Menu
- Seder plate
- Zarua (roasted beet)
- Beitza (roasted egg)
- Maror (horseradish)
- Karpas (parsley or other sweet vegetable)
- Hazeret (romaine or other bitter vegetable)
- Haroset
- Karpas for dipping
- salt water
- parsley
- carrot sticks
- hard boiled eggs (in shell for smashing game)
- fennel
- celery & cream cheese
- Ashkenazi and Sephardi Haroset
- Assorted matzahs
- Gefilte fish
- No-Chicken Soup with Knaidlach
- Steamed asparagus with lemon & olive oil
- Roasted asparagus, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, carrots, cauliflower, eggplant, fennel, garlic, kale, leeks, mushrooms, sliced onions, new potatoes, sweet potato, shallots, spinach, acorn squash, yellow squash, tomatoes or zucchini.
- Cook one type at a time, or sort by cooking time.
- Slice, dice or sliver hard vegetables or break into florets; roughly chop leafy ones. Asparagus just needs the tough ends removed. Cauliflower is dramatic if sliced. Eggplant should be sliced or diced, covered with kosher salt and left in a colander for at least an hour, then rinsed thoroughly, to drain the bitter juices. Garlic cloves should be roasted whole and unpeeled.
- Toss with olive oil & salt.
- Spread one layer thick on baking sheet
- Roast in preheated 400° oven until brown on bottom; flip and roast a few minutes more until yummy.
- Serve hot or room temperature, as is, sprinkled with chopped herbs, paprika, Halabi pepper or lemon zest, or with a vinaigrette.
- Pan fried/steamed apparatus, broccoli, Brussels sprouts,
cauliflower, eggplant, fennel, kale, leeks, mushrooms, onions,
potatoes, shallots, spinach, yellow squash or zucchini
- Cook one type at a time, or sort by cooking time.
- Dice or slice larger vegetables. Kasher eggplant.
- Fry in small amount of olive oil or butter for a few minutes. When half cooked, add a few tablespoons of water (don't add water for spinach), cover and simmer until crisp-tender.)
- Serve hot or room temperature.
- Greek or Israeli salad with roasted red peppers
- Kale salad
- Blood orange, olives & celery leaf salad
- Molly's Marvelous Marinated Mushrooms al-shum, on toothpicks or matzah
- Sweet matzah kugel
- Pareve leek & mushroom pie
- Casserole of roasted eggplant slices with olives, tomato sauce and cheese
- Or, another vegetable dish from Passover Main Courses
- fruit salad or clementines
- chocolate bark (mix and cool melted chocolate with matzah, ginger and/or nuts)
Happy Pesah
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