sharing a delicious and "different" zucchini kugel

SharonaB

Sun, May 04 2008, 9:50 am

I just wanted to share my 'failsafe' Shabbat recipe for Sweet Potato Kugel. It is an easy 'one pot' recipe that is light and always goes down a hit.

3-4 medium sweet potatoes
2 tablespoons marg
2 eggs
1/3 cup sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
salt/pepper to taste

Boil the peeled and cut up sweet potatoes until soft. Drain the water well and add the marg whilst still hot so that it melts in. Stir it up and mash in the remaining ingredients.

Pour into a well greased dish and bake half hour on 350F or 180C.

I just mix this up in the saucepan I boil the sweet potatoes in - it is so quick and easy and just melts in your mouth. It is also good for Shabbat lunch and does fine on the platter, but is better on top of another dish rather than directly on the platter itself.

Hope you like it - I think I put less sugar in mine but just do it to taste.

SharonaB

Sun, May 04 2008, 1:37 pm

I use a 6" x 8" aluminium dish. Just grease it lightly and it shouldn't stick. I think I have also used a small loaf tin when I had nothing else.

It goes really nice with petitim (an Israeli toasted pasta).

Enjoy!

yet

Fri, Aug 01 2008, 2:52 pm

last week, I was sauteeing onions to serve over something, and the recipe said to sautee it in soy sauce instead of oil. It came out real yum!

Do you think I can sautee these onions (for zucchini kugel) in soy sauce also? or do you think soy isn't the right flavoring?

Shopmiami49

Thu, Jun 24 2010, 4:43 pm

anon wrote:

I have a zucchini kugel recipe that is always a hit, and it's a nice change from your typical potato kugel. So I thought I'd share Very Happy

ZUCCHINI KUGEL

6 medium zucchini peeled, quartered & sliced (the pieces will look like triangles)
1 medium onion chopped
1 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1-2 tablespoons onion soup mix (to taste) **
4 eggs
1/2 cup oil
salt & pepper (to taste)

Mix all the ingredients together. Bake, uncovered, in a greased 9''x13" pan at 350 degrees for 1 1/2 hrs or until set & golden brown.
It freezes pretty well.

** I first tried it without onion soup mix and it didn't taste that great. So now I use Lieber's onion soup mix WITHOUT msg. It still isn't the healthiest choice, but I guess it's better than msg. You can choose to make it without any soup mix, but then I can't guarantee the taste Wink

ok, yum yum YUM!! it is so darn good! but I sauteed the zucch and onions until golden before mixing everythign. I think im gonna go try some more...

anon

Thu, Jun 24 2010, 7:06 pm

Shopmiami49 wrote:

anon wrote:

I have a zucchini kugel recipe that is always a hit, and it's a nice change from your typical potato kugel. So I thought I'd share Very Happy

ok, yum yum YUM!! it is so darn good! but I sauteed the zucch and onions until golden before mixing everythign. I think im gonna go try some more...

Just to share: I officially don't use soup mixes anymore, but I have found that if you CARAMELIZE a lot of onions (saute onions in oil on low flame for a long time) then it adds the same delicious flavor...you won't miss the soup mix.

anon

Thu, Jun 24 2010, 7:07 pm

Shopmiami49 wrote:

anon wrote:

I have a zucchini kugel recipe that is always a hit, and it's a nice change from your typical potato kugel. So I thought I'd share Very Happy

ok, yum yum YUM!! it is so darn good! but I sauteed the zucch and onions until golden before mixing everythign. I think im gonna go try some more...

Just to share: I stopped using soup mixes altogether. And I have found that if you CARAMELIZE a lot of onions (saute onions in oil on a low flame for a long time) then it adds the same delicious flavor...the soup mix won't be missed.

1Life2Live

Thu, Feb 17 2011, 10:40 am

anon wrote:

I have a zucchini kugel recipe that is always a hit, and it's a nice change from your typical potato kugel. So I thought I'd share Very Happy

I would like to try this recipe tonight- for those of you who made it- do you think it will taste good if I put in sliced mushrooms (we happen to have some at home)? Do I need to adjust any of the other ingredients if I add them?

thinking mom

Sun, Feb 27 2011, 2:04 pm

My aunt has a very similar recipe that I make fairly often and it calls for a small can (around 4 oz) of mushrooms that get sauteed with the onions. We also make it on Pesach using matza meal instead of flour. It's really delicious!

culinaryk

Sun, Feb 27 2011, 2:19 pm

I made the following zucchini kugel for Shabbos and one of my guests practically ate up the whole thing and then asked me for the recipe. Really good and different.

3 pound(s) Yellow And Green Zucchini
1/2 cup(s) Chopped Onion
1/2 cup(s) Margarine
2 Eggs Beaten
1 tablespoon(s) Sugar
1 teaspoon(s) Salt
1/2 teaspoon(s) Pepper
1/2 cup(s) Bread Crumbs
1/2 cup(s) Cornflakes Crumbs

Preparation
Wash the zucchini very well and keep on the peel. (you can peel it, but it wont be as pretty). Saute onion and zucchini until very soft. Add the rest of the ingredients (except the cornflakes). Spray a pyrex dish with pam. Pour in the mixture and sprinkle the cornflakes on top. Bake at 350 for 1 hour. Best served with a spoon and not cut into slices

HooRYou

Fri, Mar 25 2011, 9:29 am

I just made a recipe like this last week, but when I boiled the sweet potatoes I added a vanilla tea bag. It imparted a lovely vanilla flavor to the kugel.

SharonaB wrote:

freidasima

Fri, Mar 25 2011, 10:01 am

I'm always looking for easy to make and easy to freeze pesach kugel recipies and with potato starch instead of flour it may work. The sweet potato kugel is also a good idea, only I usually don't add sugar and we don't use margarine or butter or oil in general.

Another problem is that except for mushrooms, potatoes and sweet potatoes and onions my dh doesn't eat cooked veg, only raw (not just pesach, always) so I'm stuck. I love all kinds of veg but I don't like to make things he won't eat. However with the crowd we are having maybe I will do both and freeze, will let you know how it came out.

ra_mom

Fri, Mar 25 2011, 1:32 pm

freidasima wrote:

I would definately try the zucchini and onion kugel recipes with some sort of potato starch conversion.
And I have a pesach recipe for sweet potato that calls for orange juice and wine. Would that work?