Can you use green apples for charoses

amother

Tue, Apr 04 2023, 3:15 pm

Is it imperative to use gala or red apples or will charoses taste good with the green apples?

tichellady

Tue, Apr 04 2023, 3:20 pm

you can use them and always add some honey to make it sweeter

chocolate moose

Tue, Apr 04 2023, 3:46 pm

we don't eat the charosets

alef12

Tue, Apr 04 2023, 3:52 pm

I only use green apples

Golde

Tue, Apr 04 2023, 4:04 pm

amother OP wrote:

Is it imperative to use gala or red apples or will charoses taste good with the green apples?

It tastes better with green imo. I made s batch today with 3 green apples and one gala for the color. Tasted delish 🤤

Iymnok

Tue, Apr 04 2023, 4:11 pm

We always use mostly green. My kids love it.

CatLady

Tue, Apr 04 2023, 4:40 pm

I use whatever apples I have on hand. This year, it's Granny Smith and Cortland.

zaq

Tue, Apr 04 2023, 10:05 pm

chocolate moose wrote:

we don't eat the charosets

. Say what?

zaq

Tue, Apr 04 2023, 10:07 pm

I use whatever apples I have. And some communities don't use apples at all. Charoset recipes aren't halachah. It's the appearance that counts.

kenz

Tue, Apr 04 2023, 11:09 pm

zaq wrote:

. Say what?

We don’t eat it either. We merely dip the maror and Korach into it. We hold not to eat it bc it symbolizes the cement that was the cause of so much pain to Klal Yisrael.

essie14

Wed, Apr 05 2023, 5:09 am

I used what we had which was mostly green and 2 pears as well. I add Cinnamon and a drop of brown sugar for sweetness plus red wine and ground almonds. It came out so delicious!

I make a lot. We eat it as a spread on matza after the seder.

amother

Winterberry

Wed, Apr 05 2023, 7:07 am

We don’t eat it either

chocolate moose

Wed, Apr 05 2023, 12:45 pm

remember it sits out a lot. thqt's mostly why we don't eat it.

amother

Glitter

Wed, Apr 05 2023, 1:10 pm

Where are your great grandparents from? What kinds of apples did they grow in that region that they would have used?

essie14

Thu, Apr 06 2023, 1:38 pm

chocolate moose wrote:

remember it sits out a lot. thqt's mostly why we don't eat it.

I serve it straight from the fridge.

DrMom

Thu, Apr 06 2023, 3:22 pm

We make charoset from dates, not apples.

And we eat it.

And it's delicious.

amother

Mistyrose

Sat, Apr 08 2023, 3:09 pm

We make ours with baked apples because we have a child who is allergic to raw apples. This year we're at a hotel and requested non-apple charoset expecting more of a Sephardic kind made with dates. They gave us one made with banana and one that was basically walnuts in silan.

DrMom

Sat, Apr 08 2023, 5:13 pm

amother Mistyrose wrote:

Great idea!

chocolate moose

Sun, Apr 09 2023, 4:22 pm

essie14 wrote:

I serve it straight from the fridge.

doesn't it sit on the pesach plate during the seder?

NechaMom

Sun, Apr 09 2023, 4:39 pm

zaq wrote:

. Say what?

We never eat it.
We dip the maror into it and literally less than a drop stays on it.
I can almost make it with toy apples too for the amount we ingest.