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Vegetarian French Onion Soup

Adapted from Levana Cooks, using Mushroom Medley Levana Nourishments

french onion soup

My onion soup recipe is in my first cookbook, Levana’s Table

I always thought I made a good onion soup, if I may say so myself. Mine lists Swiss cheese, provolone and parmesan. But I recently received from my daughter Bella a magnificent wheel of Manchego, and decided to replace all the cheeses I usually put in with just a grated hunk of manchego: Let me tell you: It was out of this world, even though the cheese completely melted and was not visible in the soup! So here comes the recipe, just as it appears in my cookbook, but with the Manchego-only option!

Onion soup posed a unique challenge for me.

And of course I love a good challenge, so I was determined to beat it. The two trademarks of a perfect classic onion soup (besides, of course, the onions!) are the rich beef broth that serves as its base, and the cheese that melts into it, meaning, of course, a taboo in kosher kitchens!

I was not about to stand defeated, so I experimented endlessly, and bingo: A mixture of brown miso paste and dry red wine was my answer: I obtained a deep-flavored, luxurious-tasting and richly-colored broth, a perfect foil for those caramelized onions and smoked cheeses. When you try this, you will understand my feeling of triumph. My food spies from the non-kosher world have issued a unanimous verdict:

“I can’t believe this is a meatless soup!”

I have included several members of the onion family to make it even more glorious.

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Cold Pasta – Sun-Dried Tomatoes, Roasted Peppers, and Olives Recipe

Adapted from Levana Cooks using Levana Nourishments Mushroom Medley. 

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Cold Pasta – Sun-Dried Tomatoes, Roasted Peppers, and Olives Recipe

Cold Pasta dishes are wonderful for summer and all buffet displays. And the best part is, beside for boiling the pasta, this cold pasta dish doesn’t require any cooking. If you are watching your starch intake, or if you are simply, as I always am, looking for better grains, this is your chance to experiment with soba or rice noodles: Respectively low-gluten and gluten-free and prepared in a snap, they will do the job with flying colors!
For this cold pasta dish, you have a wide choice of pasta, but please don’t select a tubular pasta; in other words, no ziti, no bucatini, or other pasta with holes running through their centers. The only time we want tubular pasta is when we have a not-too-rich pasta sauce, such as tomato or vegetable sauce.
Although this cold pasta dish is delicious as is, frozen artichokes hearts or bottoms would be a great addition, at no extra labor cost (just let them thaw!), and would be a good chance to sneak in the delicious, nutritious and low-calorie artichoke, which is still so underrated in America.

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Roasted Garlic Artichoke Soup Recipe

Adapted from Levana Cooks using Levana Nourishments Mushroom Medley

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Roasted Garlic Soup Recipe – with Artichoke

Artichoke soup is  so luxurious, and quite simple to make! I find gorgeous frozen artichoke bottoms in the frozen section of every Kosher supermarket: Someone in the food industry, bless him, has done all the pesky job of snapping the leaves off the artichokes, and the even peskier job of scraping the fuzz off the artichoke bottoms, leaving us only with exactly what we want (perfect artichoke bottoms or baby artichoke hearts) in order to sail through the preparation of quite a few artichoke-based treats. Lean, nutrient-packed, different, and delicious, they make this artichoke soup and quite a few other artichoke treats a snap to prepare. Did you know there was an artichoke liqueur called Cynar? Not for the fainthearted: Try it, it might grow on you!

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Pickled Salmon Recipe

Adapted to Levana Nourishments from Levana Cooks. 

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Strictly speaking, Pickled Salmon is not cooked:

Pickled Salmon recipe: Please don’t gasp! Pickled salmon pickles much the way herring and pickles do, in a brine. The combination of vinegar-salt-sugar cures the fish quickly and effortlessly. The ketchup imparts wonderful color and a pleasing sweet-and-sour flavor to the pickled salmon. No, there doesn’t seem to be a limit on how many hats salmon can wear: All delicious, all quick, all healthy!

Pickled salmon recipe is delicious alone, with tiny boiled potatoes or on top of mixed greens.

This is a Russian favorite that takes only a minute to prepare and keeps for up to a week in the refrigerator. Move over once in a while, pickled herring, we love you, but here is a most welcome change! Pickled salmon makes a great first course, or a great buffet dis

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Lamb Mushroom Crockpot Soup Recipe

Adapted to Levana Nourishments from Levana Cooks. 

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Lamb Mushroom Soup Crockpot recipe: All aboard in a crockpot. Plug it, and forget it!

Lamb Mushroom Soup Recipe: Soup lovers out there, you’ll be thrilled! My crockpot soup is not just very low maintenance. It is also very elastic. I don’t do a stitch of work beyond throwing everything in the pot, and plug it on low. The lamb shanks yield a meat that literally falls off the bone, and the bones give the soup a lovely gelatinous texture. I absolutely love lamb shanks. Look at the gorgeous Lamb Dried fruit Tajine I make with it!

Tired of good old Cholent? Try Crockpot Soup!

This makes it perfect for Shabbos Lunch! We all love a good cholent, but this is a wonderful variation on a familiar theme

Throw your favorite grains in your crockpot soup

I left all grains out of my lamb soup, as I wanted to keep it more broth-y less starchy, but 1 cup of wild rice, barley, brown rice or even roasted chestnuts (easy to find, vacuum-packed and peeled) would work beautifully. Likewise, use dates instead of apricots; avoiding carbs? skip the potatoes and use more celery root (or turnips); use beef cheeks instead of lamb shanks, but rinse the beef cheeks thoroughly and do not add any salt whatsoever in the soup, as beef cheeks often err on the salty side.

My Crockpot soup came out terrific

I am listing the exact ingredient list I used, but including some terrific alternative options. You might want to leave it exactly as is, but if you tinker with it, please share! Just the other day I made it again, with 1 cup forbidden rice, and it was terrific. Likewise, I will be making it this week with

This Crockpot soup is DINNER! Or Shabbos Lunch!

 

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