RFCJ RECIPE ARCHIVE
Posted by : Ruth Heiges Lentil Cholent w/Date Honey - meat
Nira Rousso includes this in her Haaretz column of March 12, 1999. There are recipes for _jahnun_ (a Yemenite bread) in the archives of this newsgroup. Ruth "This is an experiment of my own that turned out well. It requires a lot of liquid, but after spending hours in the oven, everything comes out deliciously brown and tender. The intriguing addition of silan, date honey, does wonders for the taste and color. If you like, stick a pot of jahnun, a slow-cooking Yemenite bread, in the oven, too. When ready to serve, open the cloth-wrapped kugel and slice. Choose a large pot with a tight-fitting lid." 3 onions, peeled and chopped 4 Tbs. oil 4 Tbs. silan (date honey) 1-1/2 kilos (3-1/2 lb.) flanken or aged Asado 3-4 marrow bones (tell the butcher you want bones for cholent) 12-15 small potatoes (or 8-10 medium-sized) 1 package (500 grams/1 lb.+) mixed dried beans for cholent (or half red, half white) 1 cup pearl barley 1-1/2 cups green lentils 1 stuffed kishke (if you can get hold of a good-quality product, otherwise forget it) 8 eggs a generous amount of salt and black pepper Kugel ingredients: An old cloth napkin or one-quarter of a cloth diaper 3 onions 150 grams margarine salt and pepper 2 Tbs. honey 8 slices of old bread, coarsely shredded 4 eggs about one-half cup flour 1. On the morning before you plan to make the cholent, rinse the beans, barley and lentils well and soak them in hot water. 2. In the afternoon, fry the onions in oil in the cholent pot. Peel potatoes and place in pot together with all ingredients except for eggs and kugel. Fill pot with water, cover and bring to boil. 3. Lower flame and simmer for one and a half hours. 4. Hard-boil eggs in another pot. 5. Prepare the kugel: Fry onion in margarine with honey. Add bread and stir until brown. Remove from flame. 6. Add eggs, then flour, salt and pepper. The batter should be relatively stiff. If too thin, add a bit more flour. 7. Spread cloth napkin or one-quarter of a cloth diaper on work surface. Pour kugel batter into it and tie ends together. 8. Place bundle in the cholent pot. Add eggs. 9. Place pot in oven, preferably on middle rack (or lower, depending on height of pot) - but not on floor of oven. 10. Adjust temperature to 110 degrees centigrade (250 F) and leave in oven for 14 hours at least
