I'm invited to a Chinese potluck this Friday. The catch is that it's a kosher potluck, so no pork, seafood, or dairy.
Any ideas of something to make?
Posted by Boon (Member # 4646) on :
I make a great chicken/broccoli "stir-fry" that takes about 20 minutes to cook. I think the recipe is on the Princeclan site.
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
I thought cheese and chicken were okay to be melted together. . .
Posted by Stephan (Member # 7549) on :
My Temple is having one this Friday to.
How Kosher is it? There is real Kosher where the animals had to be killed under Orthodox guidelines. Some Reform Jews just forgo the shellfish and pork and call themselves Kosher.
Posted by Boon (Member # 4646) on :
It's glatt kosher. Everything needs a hekhsher. There is a kosher supermarket nearby, if I need to buy some meat.
Posted by Will B (Member # 7931) on :
Broccoli beef Sweet & sour chicken (probably more work) Veggie stir-fry Lo mein Gelfite salad (just kidding -- ack!)
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Minerva, do you keep kosher? *curious*
Kosher Chinese recipes at recipezaar (Be aware that you should reality-check all those recipes to make sure they're really kosher and all, the people posting them sometimes mis-mark. If you find one that's mismarked and don't have an account, tell me which one and I'll contact them and get it changed. )
Posted by Shmuel (Member # 7586) on :
quote:Originally posted by Scott R: I thought cheese and chicken were okay to be melted together. . .
Nope. Under Rabbinic law, chicken falls into the "meat" category.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
(Personally, I'd just buy takeout from a kosher Chinese place.)
(That would be because I don't keep a kosher house and so it wouldn't really be kosher no matter what I cooked, and even if I managed to use all disposable cookware, some people wouldn't eat it because it was not supervised.)
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
quote:Originally posted by Minerva: It's glatt kosher. Everything needs a hekhsher. There is a kosher supermarket nearby, if I need to buy some meat.
I don't understand how it can be "glatt kosher" and have a "heksher" if everyone is making the stuff in their own kitchens. Because I'm assuming that your kitchen doesn't have rabbinic supervision. I'm pretty serious about keeping kosher, and I wouldn't eat at a potluck where I don't know who made the food and how strict their kashrut is.
But if the folk are more lax, that'd be a different story. I do know of folk who are "kosher at home" but eat out at non-kosher restaurants as long as they don't eat pork or shellfish, or milk-and-meat-together.
Then you could make vegetable fried rice, chicken stir fry, stir fried vegetables with tofu, egg rolls, won tons (with ground meat that is not pork inside). There are kosher Chinese restaurants around where I live. I've seen veal and turkey stand in for pork in some recipes.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
quote:Originally posted by ketchupqueen: (Personally, I'd just buy takeout from a kosher Chinese place.)
I'm liking that suggestion!
Posted by Minerva (Member # 2991) on :
I meant that the ingredients have to have hekshers. Which can be hard to find for Asian ingredients.
I do not keep kosher, but my parents do.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I'd do something with lots of veggies and a little meat or tofu, and make your own sauce, very simple to do. Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
The kosher market will have kosher ingredients for you. Season makes soy sauce, canned water chestnuts and bamboo shoots, and other stuff. My neighborhood store has kosher nori for sushi, pickled ginger, hoisin sauce, lots of different kinds of soy sauce, miso, rice wine vinegar -- all kinds of stuff.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Actually, a lot of markets in my very-un-kosher area even carry kosher brands of those things.
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