Shabbos lunch ideas - Pesach cholent?

boysrus

Tue, Mar 19 2013, 10:32 am

Hi!

Just trying to plan my menu for this coming shabbos and Shabbos chol hamoed.
What can I make for lunch, cholent is a bit lacking without barley and beans I find. Any suggestions? Btw, no gebrokt ideas please!
TIA

OOTBubby

Tue, Mar 19 2013, 10:44 am

boysrus wrote:

Instead of the barley & beans, I grate a few potatoes & zucchini to give it some thickness. This rest is meat, onions, garlic, potato chunks.

busydev

Tue, Mar 19 2013, 10:53 am

my family does meat and potatoes. some people do a potato kugel with meat on top.

another option is to have roast/corned beef in the crock pot (my in laws do this even for regular shabbosim- dont like cholent)

curlgirl

Tue, Mar 19 2013, 11:05 am

Quinoa is a great replacement for the barley.

boysrus

Tue, Mar 19 2013, 11:40 am

Thanks!

all great ideas.

just had another thought - what would vegetable soup be like after spending 18 hours on the blech? Question

Raisin

Tue, Mar 19 2013, 11:44 am

we have meat and potato cholent every week. We like it that way.

I've left pureed veg soup on blech or in crockpot and it was great. .

boysrus

Tue, Mar 19 2013, 11:47 am

Thanks raisin.
now I just have to decide if I will do vegy soup or OOTbubby's idea of shredding vegetables t thickenthe cholent

mfb

Tue, Mar 19 2013, 11:48 am

I also grate potatoes and everyone likes it even my husband who usually just prefers plain barley from the cholent

enneamom

Tue, Mar 19 2013, 11:49 am

I've heard of adding almonds to the cholent. Strange as it sounds, they cook to a bean-like consistency and taste.

boysrus

Tue, Mar 19 2013, 11:51 am

wow enneamom almonds sound interesting! do you mean whole or ground almonds? do they go really soft?

enneamom

Tue, Mar 19 2013, 11:52 am

Whole almonds, and yup, they get soft. Smile

You might want to set some cholent aside for the picky eaters, though, in case the concept is too wild for them.

ice coffee

Tue, Mar 19 2013, 11:53 am

Make potato kugel batter. Put half in a crockpot add meat on top then the other half of batter. Delicious.

boysrus

Tue, Mar 19 2013, 11:55 am

and I have a vegterian eater in the house too. I guess I could also try the cholent with shredded vegs or almonds just without the meat...
thanks everyone.

curlgirl

Tue, Mar 19 2013, 12:05 pm

relax wrote:

Make potato kugel batter. Put half in a crockpot add meat on top then the other half of batter. Delicious.

Doesn't it burn? Do you add a ton of water before shabbos?

boysrus

Tue, Mar 19 2013, 12:08 pm

Good question, curlgirl, I was just wondering that too.
but it sounds really delicious.
I wonder if it could be done in a pan on the blech - I dont have a crockpot.

busydev

Tue, Mar 19 2013, 12:12 pm

curlgirl wrote:

relax wrote:

Make potato kugel batter. Put half in a crockpot add meat on top then the other half of batter. Delicious.

Doesn't it burn? Do you add a ton of water before shabbos?

maybe if its made in a crockpot bag with water between the crockpot and the bag?

also everything that gets cooked in the crockpot doesnt need water. tho overnight it probably does need it.

ice coffee

Tue, Mar 19 2013, 12:13 pm

As far as I remember from last pesach I did not add water. I put it on as late as possible and it was perfect

abby1776

Tue, Mar 19 2013, 1:03 pm

We make a hungarian goulash type chulent whih is basically meat and mushrooms, served over egg noodles

Pineapple

Tue, Mar 19 2013, 1:11 pm

enneamom wrote:

I've heard of adding almonds to the cholent. Strange as it sounds, they cook to a bean-like consistency and taste.

Would this work on the stove?

Shuly

Tue, Mar 19 2013, 2:24 pm

There is a delicious Goulash recipe in the What's Cooking? cookbook. It calls for onions, celery, carrots, potatoes and meat. The sauce has honey and ketchup in it. I make it for my pesach cholent and it is delicious! I keep it on a blech and it's perfect.