Recipes and sources can be found here: unpacked.media/explains/jewish-food/ A special thanks to Tablet Magazine for letting us use their images from 100 most Jewish foods: 100jewishfoods.tabletmag.com/
I BELIEVE A KOSHER DIET IS THE MOST HEALTHY DIET THEY ARE GOD ALMIGHTY HIMSELF TOLD MOSES WHAT FOOD"S THAT THE JEWISH PEOPLE SHOULD EAT THAT WAS CLEAN .
R u silly ? There is nothing called Jewish food , Christian food , pagan food , Muslim food , food is not connected to religion, it is connected to people, the ( Yemeni Jewish soup ) is not for Jews , this is for all Yemeni people, and the polish Jewish food is for all the people of Poland, the only difference that Jews slaughter cows in special process,and no ham no alcohol, but main ingredients r same for all polish people. Is it okay to say fish and chips is an Islamic food because there r some native Muslim white English in England!? It's for all native English people ( Christians, Jews, Muslims, agnostic, pagan ) Can i say sushi is pagan food !?!!! because there r miliions of pagans in Japan
Hilariously, my grandma, an Ashkenazi Jew, used to use the word P'tcha as jabbering! LOL She made fabulous Matzo Ball Soup, Cabbage Soup, Gefilte Fish, Blintzes, Flanken, Corned Beef!
Let's not forget North Africa. Sechina, the Moroccan version of cholent; many varieties of couscous; a number of fish dishes; sweet onions for Shavuot, moufleta for the Mimouna holiday, different kinds of donuts for Hanukkah.....And note about the Italian cooking, that the pasta we usually call bow-ties is farfalla......our origin for the word farfel.
I would like to add to that - since it is mentioned in that video that 70K Jews origin from India, 120K from ethiopia,500k from Iraq - when it comes to north Africa - 400K emigrated to Israel in 60ies of last century, that means that there are around 1.3M Israelis that have only north African origins and almost 3M that have them - that makes 1/3 of Israel Population and almost 45% of Israeli Jews. that has a lot of influence in anything in Israel.
@@56username You people will stop at nothing to promote your false messiah, even in the comments section of a video about a different religion. How sad and insecure you must be in your own faith to needlessly peddle it to everyone else.
Growing up in Brooklyn off of Eastern Pkwy, I was Blessed with most of this Jewish cuisine. I live in NM now and trying to get a good bagel is an act of God
Beverlywood bakery in LA will ship a $50 min order. They make chocolate chip rolls too, Kaiser rolls, breads, rugalach, etc. They have a website with good photos and you can write them to place an order.
I've noticed that this channel doesn't really talk to much about central Asian and caucus Jews. They a very rich food history that tastes amazing, yet didn't get a shout out in the video.
@@chana7276 The people who have a good semblance of understanding of what is going on in the world don’t like them, for very good reasons! Only morons like them.
Borscht, Beet Salad, Smoked Whitefish salad, Brisket with Horse radish sauce, Lox and bagels, Chicken Kasha soup, Rugelach, Pflaum Compote. Those are my fave Ashkenazi cuisine foods. Not really familiar w/ Sephahrdi or Mizrahi cuisine, so it's nice to learn more.
Potato Kugel, lokshen kugel, cholent, I even love sponge cake which we eat at Passover. My mother would make one (sometimes two) a day because we would literally hoover it down. Yum.
As a Christian I thank you for making this video- I am very fascinated and very much enjoy Jewish culture especially revolving around food✨ and I definitely do enjoy having chances to enjoy these foods whoever I can. ^^
I stumbled upon a recipe of a Tunisian Chicken, made with stir fried Onion, Carrots, garlic and lemon slices, and seasoned with turmeric, paprika, cinnamon, Cilantro seeds, Curmin, cayenne, saffron and olives, then slow cooked for 25 minutes. You can too it with cilantro right before serving over a bed of rice, ptitim or even quinoa!
@@Abilliph The damn video auto-played from the last one I was watching, and whilst I had my hands completely full doing chores (so I wasn’t able to stop it for a bit).
Shalom from Israel. I just recently came across your channel and I am SO impressed by the production value! The camera, sound, design, and graphics are all top-notch. great work!
I'm not Jewish but I've definitely fallen in love with Jewish culture, specially language, music and food, my mom often jokes about us becoming culturally Jewish, we even "observe" the Shabbat, non religiously, of course, but we make dinner on Friday afternoon and eat it at night and we cook something that can be eaten the next day, se we don't cook from Friday night to Saturday night. We often order Chinese for Shabbat lunch if we didn't make something that can be eaten from one day to the other and now we order Chinese on Christmas also hahaha And I'm seriously thinking about conversion
Why follow religious rules when you don't believe in the religion? It's only observant Jews who follow kosher rules. It's not a cultural thing. It's a religious thing.
Orthadox jew here. If you are serious about conversion make sure to put a lot of thought into it. Judaism typically discourages conversion for reasons that would take too long to type out. We believe that goyim (non-jews) have their own role and mitzvot that they are commanded to do in life. So long as a goy follows the seven mitzvot benei noach then to my understanding goys can also go to heaven (those 7 mitzvot are basic things like dont kill, dont steal, dont rape, etc, dont remember all of them lol). If you do still want to convert, you should also consider which sect to follow. Orthadox judaism is historically considered to be the most true form of judaism and the form that has been in constant practice for 2000+ years. You can find rabbis willing to perform a conversion but again most rabbis will tell you that you dont have to and shouldnt do so unless u truly believe in judaism. If you go with conservative or reform judaism to my understanding they will "convert" you without question however those forms of judaism more resemble christianity masquerading as judaism and is a much more recent creation only having been in practice for maybe 150-200 years. If you have any questions feel free to reply :D
@@rkraiem100 Does every "True Jew" ( haha rhymes) HAVE to be Orthodox.? Judism is more than a religion , it's a people. I may be a cultural Jew & not observant , still ,one thing all Jews share is 5,000 yrs of general shared beliefs & resilience in the face in the face of persecution. Shalom✌️
An extremely famous Shabbat Jewish food created by the Jewish Yemenite community is "Jachnun" it's a slow cooked dish and is celebrated across the Jewish diaspora and in Israel today.
I remember a few years ago, my grandfather wanted me to try a few of his favourite dishes growing up. I was lucky enough to experience parts of my rich cultural heritage so he made p’tcha (we call it fis), tzimmes, cholent, and chicken fricasee. It was all well worth trying and makes me wish more restaurants sold that food.
Kasha is awesome! Most people are familiar with it from kashka varnishes (eaten with bowtie pasta), but, in my family, my Grandmother used to make it as part of chicken soup. I'm afraid that this spoiled me for chicken soup for life. It's never the same.
ב''ה, excellent choice, though for anyone just going down the kasha hole - the toasting controls the bitterness, and you may or may not prefer it as roasted as bubbe made it. Also, like brown rice, it can go a bit rancid if forgotten in the cupboard for years on end. Make fresh before you judge it.
This topic deserves a good long documentary. Perhaps going over Jewish gastronomic influence by country. I hail from Portugal that had a big vibrant Jewish community who fell under a brutal repression. There however many foods invented by jews and crypto-jews who survived that have become part of the national food identity.
In Poland a lot of these are foods we kind of consider a part of general Polish cuisine at this point. You can just buy a Challah at any bakery, latkes are similar to placki ziemniaczane we just eat whenever, kogel mogel is a popular childhood snack, etc. Curiously bagels are relatively uncommon here, until fairly recently they were pretty hard to buy (and still kind of are) despite being invented here.
Has their ever been a public exhibition of the world jewry's cuisine? Or like a food expo showcasing all the dishes you've mentioned? It's fascinating! Love to hear how stereotypical ashkenazi food has become mainstream in American culture? Ex: Bagels w/lox, knishes, etc
Well a lot of the Jewish cuisine is the cuisine of that region to begin with (excluding the American example you cited). For example, Iraqi Jewish cuisine is basically Iraqi cuisine. Sephardic Jewish cuisine is very similar to North African cuisine.
@@timaa.4379 Exactly. It can be anything. Observant Jews just follow kosher laws. So, as long as it doesn't mix milk & meat or include pork, etc. it's fine to eat. Before modern transportation, everyone had to eat the food available locally.
@@robinlillian9471 also shellfish, and a bunch of other specific exceptions that a few thousand years of kosher supervisors and rabbi came up with. Source: I worked in a Jewish restaurant for a while, loved everything but the hours. It helped that by not being Jewish, I wasn't under the same restrictions, so alongside a lot of other staff, we had a lot more legal wiggle room than the jewish staff.
I grew up in a culturally Jewish household in Utah. We were the only Jewish family anywhere around. My grandmother made a dish called "Fazdas Eggs." She told us it was a traditional jewish recipe that her mother had learned in either Malaysia or Japan before WWII. My grandmother passed away about 4 years ago, and no one in the family knew how to make Fazdas Eggs. We looked all over the internet and couldn't find anything about it. Eventually I searched asian spiced eggs and found, along with Thousand Year old egg and balut, a recipe for something called Muttachar. It was exactly my grandmothers Fazdas Eggs. Except it wasn't Jewish or traditional. It was a recipe from a British cooking show from the 90s. It turns out, she didnt like the food she had actually been raised on, so just claimed the foods she did like cause there were no other Jews for us to ask.
Most Jewish foods are actually food that were previously traditional foods of the countries they resided in, eg a great amount of Jewish foods and even orthodox clothing was derived from Polish recipes and noblemen's dress coats and fur hats etc
Thanks for your video. I enjoy watching food prepared by cultures from all around they world. I looked into eastern European Jewish dishes, and in truth was very unimpressed. Thanks for making me aware that Jewish cookery is much richer than that of one region.
my mom made all of these when I was a kid but I never thought twice that the rest of the world didnt eat theses like we do when I started puplic school afters a few years at jewish privet a kid asked me what challa tasted like I was very confused I had this homemade bread every week and you had barly heard of it?
This is really great! I'm disappointed that apparently gefilte fish isn't so well-made so much of the time. I want to develop a really solid gefilte fish game.
Every family has their own recipe. My mothers mom wasnt such a great cook; she would put carp in her mixture which made it dark. My dad's mom used whitefish and pike and it was light coloured and delicious. Avoid the bottled stuff its absolutely crap.
My friend and i have been cooking a bunch of different jewish foods I actually bought her a jewish cook book for Hanukkah She's not jewish but loves jewish culture
Still Commercials Did you mention Tzimess? Edit. You didn't. Tzimess is an old Ashkenazi dessert. A butter-sauted salad; Based on Carrots, I like to add raisins and cubed apple. Spices are Sugar and Cinnamon. And Sugar is optional due to carrots Being naturally sweet. If you have a hard time imagine. Take knaffeh, trade the noodles that are colored orange for carrots, remove the cheese, add cinnamon, maybe raisins and apple cubes. Hope that helped.
@@whimsyrosie I've only had kugel handful of times, at my former in-laws house, it wasn't my favorite item, but I'm sure your grandma is better;) Cheers from Brazil, stay safe, Shalom.
@@56username 2) A curious fact: there's tons of people commenting on this thread yet you pick me and no one else as target for your fundamentalist Christian rant. Why? What is it about you Jesus freaks? why is it that whenever you see the word 'Egyptian' , you mistakenly and automatically think 'Muslim'? I am not a Muslim, sir! If knew any history you'd know that both Jews and Christians inhabited Egypt long before 'Muslims' ever came to be, so you would not assume. 'Egyptian' = 'Muslim', m'kay? So drop proselytism pronto. Have a nice day.
We don't hail from all over. We all originate in one area, Judea. We've lived all over due to expulsion, picking up genes from intermarriage, different foods and rituals from the places we've lived. I hate it when people say ashkenazim 'originate' in Europe. No, we LIVED in Ashkenaz , the old name for Germany then later Eastern Europe.
I love Doro Wat and Injera. Not so much the Dabo though because its not always fresh when I've bought it and I don't know how to make it. I used to work at a family shelter and there were many Eritrean and Ethiopian refugees and they taught me how to cook. So delicious! I actually was terrible at cooking ANYTHING prior to them helping me. I think most were Orthodox Christian because some would talk about the church they'd go to, but it didn't occur to me that some may have been Jewish. Fancy!
I was born and live in Ukraine, and the first dish you mention, this cold jelly dish is called "kholodets" in Ukraine and is considered a Ukrainian dish, actually))) but we have great jewish communities in all the big cities here:)
You mean the gefilte fish? Everyone thinks their group was the one who invented stuff. I hope you are still well and safe. Ukrainians are heroic people deserving of every blessing instead of this violence and chaos.
@@robinlillian9471 no, p'tcha. My bro in laws mother made this; it must be a Polish thing because my family is litvak and I'd never heard of it nor had my parents.
New subscriber please could you do a video on Caribbean Jewish foods... Jamaica 🇯🇲 has 🍞 buns and stews. Other islands contributed as well I would love to see how you put it all together, thanks in advance 😎😳😋🤣😂😎
It's the same food. Observant Jews just don't eat certain ingredients, especially mixed together. So, no jerk pork or shellfish. Jerked kosher chicken would be OK.
Worked in a Kosher Meat kitchen for many years and I had forgotten about gribenes! It's so delicious and I must make it one day soon. Still make shakshuka regularly and have been craving gefilte fish lately. Prefer gefilte fish with white horseradish not the red.
I would say that sometimes they invented because the board with what is normally made I didn’t know about Kubis when I made my matzoh ball Kobe when I lived in Arizona I was just tired of matzoh balls, so I took matzoh meal and made the way I make it rich is with spices in flavour and then added meet in the middle. Closed it up until nice liI ball threw it in the soup and the soup was bubbling. till I came to Israel to find out that what I thought I had invented that was gnu which everybody like was it new at all? It was called a Kube… Jews. I’ve had to be inventive for years dominantly because you have to survive and want to do that in style lol. I hope this all makes sense as I’m using voice to text in my hands don’t really work I’ve tried to correct a bit where I can but it’s not easy when you can barely use your hands. Sometimes I have to erase the whole section and simply word each word one at a time into voice to text just to get it to put the words right and even then it didn’t do it correctly. This makes sense all well and good.
My Great Grandma Mitzi used to make these carmelized onion cookies, she was Polish, and I can't find this recipe anywhere. I'm sure it would help if I knew what they were called.
The folk etymology of cholent is very unlikely. Another suggestion is that it comes from schalen or the scrapings from the bottom of a pot (called fond in French). These would be the sticky bits on the bottom of the pot that are deglazed using a liquid.
Funniest thing is I used to make a cholent when I was macro that looks a lot like the Iraqi version and yeah, the crispy rice bottom was the best part. Lol but I think that’s about the only thing my version have a common with there’s
ב''ה, might take it out of macro territory but I've always been fond of what NYT billed as a Cuban-style chicken stew made similarly; pan-brown the chicken and then stew it down in their idea of a sofrito similar to shakshouka. What fully makes it, IMO, is the handful of raisins, wine or vinegar soaked if you can be bothered, that cook down for a bit of sweetness like American barbecue. Recommend trying that or whatever dried fruit you like and have at hand. Edit to add: the massive pile of caramelized onions in that dish helps too, so this was like a 10:1 onion:fruit ratio and if you know your pilafs and plovs.. well, I imagine it would be good with the rice if you can find room in the pot!
I know habibi I was pretty upset by her pronunciation as well. She didn’t mention it with Amba either which is a mistake. As Iraqi jews we don’t have blood in our veins only Amba 😂. May we continue to carry on our Babylonian heritage for generations to come. ✌️ and ❤️ to everyone.
The Tortilla and most Northern Mexican cuisine was brought from the conversos and at times it's hard to figure who brought the rest of other food since Lebanese arabs also brought food to Mexico.
Same. My father liked it but had to go to his mother's, my Ukranian Jewish grandmother, to eat it. My Romanian Jewish grandmother looked down on their food. "Feh!". I thought p'tcha and schav (a swamp water green cold soup made with sorrel) were gross! Romanian Jewish food was so much more b'tampte (tastier)!
@@UNPACKED my bad it's name is osovo And I suggest people to try it 😀👍 Tutorial www.jmoreliving.com/recipe/this-bukharian-jewish-meaty-rice-dish-is-the-crockpot-meal-you-need/ Nice video btw.
ב''ה, amazed that anyone west of the Mississippi has never had a bialy. Edit: I also have no idea who gets credit for puri, but it's certainly delicious.
Can confirm - India took in my grandmothers family when they fled from Uzbekistan, and it was a very safe place for them to live. They seem to have nothing but good memories from there.
My grandmother, who was born in Russia, and married into Lithuania, before emigrating to Canada, used to make p'tcha in the '60s. Personally, I found it disgusting, likening it to a kosher version of the decidedly nonkosher "head cheese". I have not seen it anywhere other than my bubbe's kitchen since those years.
There is a Hungarian dish like this. Made with pork knuckles, feet. My grandma then took the meat off, and poured the broth into bowls. It was sprinkled with paprika, jelled in frig. Then served with rye bread. Jellied pigs feet. Or head cheese. BTW, I never could eat it either.
"Jewish food" is just food that Jewish people cook and/or eat. It could be anything, as long as it doesn't violate the kosher rules for observant Jews. No mixing of milk and meat. No pork. No shellfish. etc. Observant Jews will eat at any restaurant that is kosher. Kosher Chinese and Kosher Indian food restaurants are very popular where available. Non-observant Jews eat whatever they like.
Recipes and sources can be found here: unpacked.media/explains/jewish-food/
A special thanks to Tablet Magazine for letting us use their images from 100 most Jewish foods: 100jewishfoods.tabletmag.com/
Hi, i watched a bunch of your videos and i really enjoyed; just one note: it's "Friuli", not "Friulli".
I BELIEVE A KOSHER DIET IS THE MOST HEALTHY DIET THEY ARE GOD ALMIGHTY HIMSELF TOLD MOSES WHAT FOOD"S THAT THE JEWISH PEOPLE SHOULD EAT THAT WAS CLEAN .
I have never heard of anyone say they’ve been to a good Jewish restaurant 🤣
count the number of times you hear poor poverty and poysecution in this video.
R u silly ? There is nothing called Jewish food , Christian food , pagan food , Muslim food , food is not connected to religion, it is connected to people, the ( Yemeni Jewish soup ) is not for Jews , this is for all Yemeni people, and the polish Jewish food is for all the people of Poland, the only difference that Jews slaughter cows in special process,and no ham no alcohol, but main ingredients r same for all polish people.
Is it okay to say fish and chips is an Islamic food because there r some native Muslim white English in England!? It's for all native English people ( Christians, Jews, Muslims, agnostic, pagan )
Can i say sushi is pagan food !?!!! because there r miliions of pagans in Japan
Hilariously, my grandma, an Ashkenazi Jew, used to use the word P'tcha as jabbering! LOL She made fabulous Matzo Ball Soup, Cabbage Soup, Gefilte Fish, Blintzes, Flanken, Corned Beef!
Let's not forget North Africa. Sechina, the Moroccan version of cholent; many varieties of couscous; a number of fish dishes; sweet onions for Shavuot, moufleta for the Mimouna holiday, different kinds of donuts for Hanukkah.....And note about the Italian cooking, that the pasta we usually call bow-ties is farfalla......our origin for the word farfel.
Good job 😊
I would like to add to that - since it is mentioned in that video that 70K Jews origin from India, 120K from ethiopia,500k from Iraq - when it comes to north Africa - 400K emigrated to Israel in 60ies of last century, that means that there are around 1.3M Israelis that have only north African origins and almost 3M that have them - that makes 1/3 of Israel Population and almost 45% of Israeli Jews. that has a lot of influence in anything in Israel.
we learned to make all of these as kids but didn't know the names. so it's really wonderful to connect to that.
That and buckwheat groats can be a meal. Yum!
@@56username You people will stop at nothing to promote your false messiah, even in the comments section of a video about a different religion. How sad and insecure you must be in your own faith to needlessly peddle it to everyone else.
Growing up in Brooklyn off of Eastern Pkwy, I was Blessed with most of this Jewish cuisine. I live in NM now and trying to get a good bagel is an act of God
Patricia H you need to make your own
The secret is to boil the uncooked bagel as part of the process.
Beverlywood bakery in LA will ship a $50 min order. They make chocolate chip rolls too, Kaiser rolls, breads, rugalach, etc. They have a website with good photos and you can write them to place an order.
@@stephaniereif7790 It closed on April 30, 2022.
@@monarene44 that’s so sad
I've noticed that this channel doesn't really talk to much about central Asian and caucus Jews. They a very rich food history that tastes amazing, yet didn't get a shout out in the video.
Nobody cares. Deal with it.
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 that's not true. Just cause you don't care doesn't mean other people dont.
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 Antisemite
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^ Clueless
@@chana7276
The people who have a good semblance of understanding of what is going on in the world don’t like them, for very good reasons! Only morons like them.
Borscht, Beet Salad, Smoked Whitefish salad, Brisket with Horse radish sauce, Lox and bagels, Chicken Kasha soup, Rugelach, Pflaum Compote. Those are my fave Ashkenazi cuisine foods. Not really familiar w/ Sephahrdi or Mizrahi cuisine, so it's nice to learn more.
Potato Kugel, lokshen kugel, cholent, I even love sponge cake which we eat at Passover. My mother would make one (sometimes two) a day because we would literally hoover it down. Yum.
@@imisstoronto3121 Both of you are lucky. I got hungry just reading these lists, especially the chicken kasha soup (like my Grandmother used to make!)
Made veggie meat cholent the other night...tasted fantastic
I'm hungry now 😢
You listed literally Russian, Ukrainian food .
As a Christian I thank you for making this video- I am very fascinated and very much enjoy Jewish culture especially revolving around food✨ and I definitely do enjoy having chances to enjoy these foods whoever I can. ^^
I stumbled upon a recipe of a Tunisian Chicken, made with stir fried Onion, Carrots, garlic and lemon slices, and seasoned with turmeric, paprika, cinnamon, Cilantro seeds, Curmin, cayenne, saffron and olives, then slow cooked for 25 minutes.
You can too it with cilantro right before serving over a bed of rice, ptitim or even quinoa!
Its really great knowing judaism is so vast in people and culture. Can't wait to make some t'bit myself!
Lmfao.
@@Abilliph
The damn video auto-played from the last one I was watching, and whilst I had my hands completely full doing chores (so I wasn’t able to stop it for a bit).
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 Still doesn’t justify your hatred of Jews
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lol that explains why you went into the comments and started whining about Jews. Typical kind of pathetic
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Looking at your comment history explains everything. Talk about pathetic!
Shalom from Israel.
I just recently came across your channel and I am SO impressed by the production value!
The camera, sound, design, and graphics are all top-notch.
great work!
Thanks! (sorry for the delayed reply)
נימרוד אלדאה אשמח לדעת למה מחקת את כל הולוגים מהערוץ הפרטי שלך אני גדלתי על הולוגים האלה
I'm not Jewish but I've definitely fallen in love with Jewish culture, specially language, music and food, my mom often jokes about us becoming culturally Jewish, we even "observe" the Shabbat, non religiously, of course, but we make dinner on Friday afternoon and eat it at night and we cook something that can be eaten the next day, se we don't cook from Friday night to Saturday night.
We often order Chinese for Shabbat lunch if we didn't make something that can be eaten from one day to the other and now we order Chinese on Christmas also hahaha
And I'm seriously thinking about conversion
If you're Hispanic, you are probably a crypto Jew yourself! Look up Anusim Jews!
Did you also become a disgusting Pornographer and a Con artist just like them?
Why follow religious rules when you don't believe in the religion? It's only observant Jews who follow kosher rules. It's not a cultural thing. It's a religious thing.
Orthadox jew here. If you are serious about conversion make sure to put a lot of thought into it. Judaism typically discourages conversion for reasons that would take too long to type out. We believe that goyim (non-jews) have their own role and mitzvot that they are commanded to do in life. So long as a goy follows the seven mitzvot benei noach then to my understanding goys can also go to heaven (those 7 mitzvot are basic things like dont kill, dont steal, dont rape, etc, dont remember all of them lol).
If you do still want to convert, you should also consider which sect to follow. Orthadox judaism is historically considered to be the most true form of judaism and the form that has been in constant practice for 2000+ years. You can find rabbis willing to perform a conversion but again most rabbis will tell you that you dont have to and shouldnt do so unless u truly believe in judaism. If you go with conservative or reform judaism to my understanding they will "convert" you without question however those forms of judaism more resemble christianity masquerading as judaism and is a much more recent creation only having been in practice for maybe 150-200 years.
If you have any questions feel free to reply :D
@@rkraiem100 Does every "True Jew" ( haha rhymes) HAVE to be Orthodox.? Judism is more than a religion , it's a people. I may be a cultural Jew & not observant , still ,one thing all Jews share is 5,000 yrs of general shared beliefs & resilience in the face in the face of persecution. Shalom✌️
The crisp bottom of cooked rice is called "O-koge (お焦げ)" in Japan and we are fond of it very much, too.
An extremely famous Shabbat Jewish food created by the Jewish Yemenite community is "Jachnun" it's a slow cooked dish and is celebrated across the Jewish diaspora and in Israel today.
I remember a few years ago, my grandfather wanted me to try a few of his favourite dishes growing up. I was lucky enough to experience parts of my rich cultural heritage so he made p’tcha (we call it fis), tzimmes, cholent, and chicken fricasee. It was all well worth trying and makes me wish more restaurants sold that food.
Kasha is awesome! Most people are familiar with it from kashka varnishes (eaten with bowtie pasta), but, in my family, my Grandmother used to make it as part of chicken soup. I'm afraid that this spoiled me for chicken soup for life. It's never the same.
My grandmother would make it that way too once in a while. A tastier choice than rice and chicken for sure.
ב''ה, excellent choice, though for anyone just going down the kasha hole - the toasting controls the bitterness, and you may or may not prefer it as roasted as bubbe made it.
Also, like brown rice, it can go a bit rancid if forgotten in the cupboard for years on end. Make fresh before you judge it.
I love Jewish food. I love food in general.
This topic deserves a good long documentary. Perhaps going over Jewish gastronomic influence by country. I hail from Portugal that had a big vibrant Jewish community who fell under a brutal repression. There however many foods invented by jews and crypto-jews who survived that have become part of the national food identity.
In Poland a lot of these are foods we kind of consider a part of general Polish cuisine at this point. You can just buy a Challah at any bakery, latkes are similar to placki ziemniaczane we just eat whenever, kogel mogel is a popular childhood snack, etc.
Curiously bagels are relatively uncommon here, until fairly recently they were pretty hard to buy (and still kind of are) despite being invented here.
Has their ever been a public exhibition of the world jewry's cuisine? Or like a food expo showcasing all the dishes you've mentioned? It's fascinating! Love to hear how stereotypical ashkenazi food has become mainstream in American culture? Ex: Bagels w/lox, knishes, etc
Well a lot of the Jewish cuisine is the cuisine of that region to begin with (excluding the American example you cited). For example, Iraqi Jewish cuisine is basically Iraqi cuisine. Sephardic Jewish cuisine is very similar to North African cuisine.
@@timaa.4379 Exactly. It can be anything. Observant Jews just follow kosher laws. So, as long as it doesn't mix milk & meat or include pork, etc. it's fine to eat. Before modern transportation, everyone had to eat the food available locally.
@@robinlillian9471 also shellfish, and a bunch of other specific exceptions that a few thousand years of kosher supervisors and rabbi came up with.
Source: I worked in a Jewish restaurant for a while, loved everything but the hours. It helped that by not being Jewish, I wasn't under the same restrictions, so alongside a lot of other staff, we had a lot more legal wiggle room than the jewish staff.
I grew up in a culturally Jewish household in Utah. We were the only Jewish family anywhere around. My grandmother made a dish called "Fazdas Eggs." She told us it was a traditional jewish recipe that her mother had learned in either Malaysia or Japan before WWII. My grandmother passed away about 4 years ago, and no one in the family knew how to make Fazdas Eggs. We looked all over the internet and couldn't find anything about it. Eventually I searched asian spiced eggs and found, along with Thousand Year old egg and balut, a recipe for something called Muttachar. It was exactly my grandmothers Fazdas Eggs. Except it wasn't Jewish or traditional. It was a recipe from a British cooking show from the 90s. It turns out, she didnt like the food she had actually been raised on, so just claimed the foods she did like cause there were no other Jews for us to ask.
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The best Unpacked video I have watched. Nice compare and contrast on Shabbat stews.
Glad you enjoyed it! Have you seen any of our recent videos?
Most Jewish foods are actually food that were previously traditional foods of the countries they resided in, eg a great amount of Jewish foods and even orthodox clothing was derived from Polish recipes and noblemen's dress coats and fur hats etc
@@56username my nigga stfu.
It was often the other way around, actually.
You seriously made no mention of Moroccan cuisine and its influence across the Maghreb and modern day Israel. What a shame.
I suppose it's impossible to name everything.
You are right is like you talk about the greatest in football and you don't mention Pele, Maradona, Messi, and Ronaldo
Thanks for your video. I enjoy watching food prepared by cultures from all around they world. I looked into eastern European Jewish dishes, and in truth was very unimpressed. Thanks for making me aware that Jewish cookery is much richer than that of one region.
my mom made all of these when I was a kid but I never thought twice that the rest of the world didnt eat theses like we do when I started puplic school afters a few years at jewish privet a kid asked me what challa tasted like I was very confused I had this homemade bread every week and you had barly heard of it?
In Poland it’s just another type of bread you buy at a bakery, some people aren’t even aware it has a Jewish origin.
Im jewish and matza brie is soooo good!
This is really great! I'm disappointed that apparently gefilte fish isn't so well-made so much of the time. I want to develop a really solid gefilte fish game.
Every family has their own recipe. My mothers mom wasnt such a great cook; she would put carp in her mixture which made it dark. My dad's mom used whitefish and pike and it was light coloured and delicious. Avoid the bottled stuff its absolutely crap.
My friend and i have been cooking a bunch of different jewish foods
I actually bought her a jewish cook book for Hanukkah
She's not jewish but loves jewish culture
Other than the lamb's feet, everything sounds familiar or appealing. I will be trying a number of these dishes. Thank you for the recipes!
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Did you mention Tzimess?
Edit.
You didn't.
Tzimess is an old Ashkenazi dessert. A butter-sauted salad; Based on Carrots, I like to add raisins and cubed apple.
Spices are Sugar and Cinnamon.
And Sugar is optional due to carrots Being naturally sweet.
If you have a hard time imagine.
Take knaffeh, trade the noodles that are colored orange for carrots, remove the cheese, add cinnamon, maybe raisins and apple cubes.
Hope that helped.
Best Ashkenazi Cuisine items IMO: Borscht, Bagels & Lox, Brisket w/ Horseraddish, Gefilte Fish, White Fish Salad, Anything on Rye bread.
Lol, those are good, but the best Ashkenazi Jewish food is actually my grandma's kugel
@@whimsyrosie I've only had kugel handful of times, at my former in-laws house, it wasn't my favorite item, but I'm sure your grandma is better;) Cheers from Brazil, stay safe, Shalom.
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@@56username 2) A curious fact: there's tons of people commenting on this thread yet you pick me and no one else as target for your fundamentalist Christian rant. Why? What is it about you Jesus freaks? why is it that whenever you see the word 'Egyptian' , you mistakenly and automatically think 'Muslim'? I am not a Muslim, sir! If knew any history you'd know that both Jews and Christians inhabited Egypt long before 'Muslims' ever came to be, so you would not assume. 'Egyptian' = 'Muslim', m'kay? So drop proselytism pronto. Have a nice day.
Yeah I like Russian food too.
I Love the jewish food .Greetings from Brazil
We don't hail from all over. We all originate in one area, Judea. We've lived all over due to expulsion, picking up genes from intermarriage, different foods and rituals from the places we've lived. I hate it when people say ashkenazim 'originate' in Europe. No, we LIVED in Ashkenaz , the old name for Germany then later Eastern Europe.
Kids in Jamaica also fight over the brown part of the rice and peas in the country side ❤️
That is some good lookin' chow!
One of the oldest cultures in the world and I barely hear nothing about their food. Thanks for making this video, I think I wanna try making p'tcha
It's not one culture. There are numerous related Jewish religious groups and cultures. They each have somewhat different customs and beliefs.
@@robinlillian9471 because food is different in different countries 🤷
@@tiestokygoericprydz3963 and food is basically universal
I’ve never had any Israeli food but would like to try . I love eating so I’ll try most foods once
Not only kitchen but History also God bless you Madam for sharing History Information
I love Doro Wat and Injera. Not so much the Dabo though because its not always fresh when I've bought it and I don't know how to make it. I used to work at a family shelter and there were many Eritrean and Ethiopian refugees and they taught me how to cook. So delicious! I actually was terrible at cooking ANYTHING prior to them helping me. I think most were Orthodox Christian because some would talk about the church they'd go to, but it didn't occur to me that some may have been Jewish. Fancy!
I was born and live in Ukraine, and the first dish you mention, this cold jelly dish is called "kholodets" in Ukraine and is considered a Ukrainian dish, actually))) but we have great jewish communities in all the big cities here:)
You mean the gefilte fish? Everyone thinks their group was the one who invented stuff. I hope you are still well and safe. Ukrainians are heroic people deserving of every blessing instead of this violence and chaos.
@@robinlillian9471 no, p'tcha. My bro in laws mother made this; it must be a Polish thing because my family is litvak and I'd never heard of it nor had my parents.
Beautiful food..!
I love the chocolate babka it’s my favourite and Passover bread
Thank you for this video! I’m gonna try them all! ❤
New subscriber please could you do a video on Caribbean Jewish foods... Jamaica 🇯🇲 has 🍞 buns and stews.
Other islands contributed as well
I would love to see how you put it all together, thanks in advance
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It's the same food. Observant Jews just don't eat certain ingredients, especially mixed together. So, no jerk pork or shellfish. Jerked kosher chicken would be OK.
Kosher and Jamaican. The place would be called " oy mon "
Don't forget about our Sephardic Jamaican Gizzada or "pinch mi round" tarts!!!
Worked in a Kosher Meat kitchen for many years and I had forgotten about gribenes! It's so delicious and I must make it one day soon. Still make shakshuka regularly and have been craving gefilte fish lately. Prefer gefilte fish with white horseradish not the red.
@@SilverAlpha not sure what that means, that term wasn't used in the kitchen I worked in.
I have a podcast where I talk about different Jewish ethnic groups and even I learned a bit from this video.
Cool, I’ll listen to a show sometime
One time in Passover we couldn’t find any tasty affordable food. I’m Chinese, so we ate rice, chicken lomain, and broccoli.
This dishes look amazing.
Please do a video on Israel’s unrivaled vegan populace. It’s one of the things that first spurred my thirst for knowledge and love of Israel.
its because veganism and vegeterianism makes kosher 10x easier
@@MC-tl5bf Yet, most Jews still eat meat.
Seriously? So, do you hate the majority of the Israeli population for eating meat?
Great video.
I would say that sometimes they invented because the board with what is normally made I didn’t know about Kubis when I made my matzoh ball Kobe when I lived in Arizona I was just tired of matzoh balls, so I took matzoh meal and made the way I make it rich is with spices in flavour and then added meet in the middle. Closed it up until nice liI ball threw it in the soup and the soup was bubbling. till I came to Israel to find out that what I thought I had invented that was gnu which everybody like was it new at all? It was called a Kube… Jews. I’ve had to be inventive for years dominantly because you have to survive and want to do that in style lol.
I hope this all makes sense as I’m using voice to text in my hands don’t really work I’ve tried to correct a bit where I can but it’s not easy when you can barely use your hands. Sometimes I have to erase the whole section and simply word each word one at a time into voice to text just to get it to put the words right and even then it didn’t do it correctly. This makes sense all well and good.
Extremely informative!
Thanks for adding actual captions for the Deaf
This was very interesting, although my bubbie made the three typical things you mentioned at the beginning lol 🎉
Best food in The world.
I’m Chinese, it’s easy to stay kosher. I eat rice, chicken lomain, broccoli, and lemon pie.
Y’all forgot fried artichokes
Do you have a name for this food?
@@priscillad8 carciofi alla giudia
@@milesbrust5591 thank you
My Great Grandma Mitzi used to make these carmelized onion cookies, she was Polish, and I can't find this recipe anywhere. I'm sure it would help if I knew what they were called.
Sounds awesome & yummy 😋
The folk etymology of cholent is very unlikely. Another suggestion is that it comes from schalen or the scrapings from the bottom of a pot (called fond in French). These would be the sticky bits on the bottom of the pot that are deglazed using a liquid.
Delicious!
Funniest thing is I used to make a cholent when I was macro that looks a lot like the Iraqi version and yeah, the crispy rice bottom was the best part. Lol but I think that’s about the only thing my version have a common with there’s
ב''ה, might take it out of macro territory but I've always been fond of what NYT billed as a Cuban-style chicken stew made similarly; pan-brown the chicken and then stew it down in their idea of a sofrito similar to shakshouka. What fully makes it, IMO, is the handful of raisins, wine or vinegar soaked if you can be bothered, that cook down for a bit of sweetness like American barbecue. Recommend trying that or whatever dried fruit you like and have at hand.
Edit to add: the massive pile of caramelized onions in that dish helps too, so this was like a 10:1 onion:fruit ratio and if you know your pilafs and plovs.. well, I imagine it would be good with the rice if you can find room in the pot!
My mom's side of the family made something resembling p'tcha. My great grandfather emigrated from the Ukraine before WW1. We called it "halludna."
I love the food.
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As Israel is the Capital of Veganism and a plant based diet most closely follows Kashrut laws, it would be nice to see these recipes as well.
im hungry ;)
So are we
Ahh never thought Malaysian will keep in touch with Jewish stuff
@@husnajalil2665 I study Hebrew, and Jewish culture. It’s pretty 😍 interesting and amazing culture I’d say.
@@fahmiizzuddinhalim5273 dayumm same lah hahaha
@@husnajalil2665 finally, a Malaysian that has a same commonality with me hahah
im an iraqi jew and its pronounced tibeet
bob lib I actually never knew there are Iraqi jews
I know habibi I was pretty upset by her pronunciation as well. She didn’t mention it with Amba either which is a mistake. As Iraqi jews we don’t have blood in our veins only Amba 😂. May we continue to carry on our Babylonian heritage for generations to come. ✌️ and ❤️ to everyone.
@@lilywill4492 Babylonian Captivity
The Tortilla and most Northern Mexican cuisine was brought from the conversos and at times it's hard to figure who brought the rest of other food since Lebanese arabs also brought food to Mexico.
Looks good. Wish they had Jewish food near Orlando, FL
Hey just do some research I promise you you can find Jewish food in New Orleans
Sorry Orlando
I still make all this 😆. It's so good
My mother made p’tcha for my father on occasion. It was the only thing she made that I refused to even try.
Same. My father liked it but had to go to his mother's, my Ukranian Jewish grandmother, to eat it. My Romanian Jewish grandmother looked down on their food. "Feh!". I thought p'tcha and schav (a swamp water green cold soup made with sorrel) were gross! Romanian Jewish food was so much more b'tampte (tastier)!
Great video! I'm seriously hungry.
Bukarian Jews have something called "os'ovo"
We didn't have time to add all of the different variants on the shabbat stew, and was only meant as a "taste".
@@UNPACKED my bad it's name is osovo
And I suggest people to try it 😀👍
Tutorial www.jmoreliving.com/recipe/this-bukharian-jewish-meaty-rice-dish-is-the-crockpot-meal-you-need/
Nice video btw.
I tried some of the dishes around 4 years ago in Toronto, Canada.
For Passover Jews tradition. During Catholics lent.
ב''ה, amazed that anyone west of the Mississippi has never had a bialy.
Edit: I also have no idea who gets credit for puri, but it's certainly delicious.
I'd love to see a segment of Jewish vegans and vegetarians and how they modify traditional recipes while embracing their dietary techniques.
As my old Zaydie would say, don't eat gribenes at the mohel's house.
India is the only country in the world which treated Jews well. Jews by themselves said this. 🇮🇳🇮🇱
Makes sense, way too many religions in India to single out the jews.
megaton666 there are only three main religions, two of them are minority.
Can confirm - India took in my grandmothers family when they fled from Uzbekistan, and it was a very safe place for them to live. They seem to have nothing but good memories from there.
Netherlands too
with the small growing community on my island i might be well served making a place presenting these as dining options.
Love it!
You can't forget Goulash!
Great video!
People are curious which is good. I did make matzo ball soup the other day and i had a bunch of people asking for some.
I grew up Sephardic so I ate a lot of Adafina for Shabbat
Moroccan ?
@@countesselizabeth yes
@@spore1176 same! I'm Jewish Moroccan too, my only regret is i grew up in a turbulent time and I didn't get to learn hebrew.
I'm disappointed you didn't mention sabich.
My favorite!
It’s Iraqi
@@سيوففامملي it's iraqi jewish, making it de facto Israeli the fate of Iraq's jews
megaton666 so past is italian jewish? Or just italian ?
@@سيوففامملي was pasta invented by italian jews and then practically vanished from Italy with the expulsion of said jews?
My grandmother, who was born in Russia, and married into Lithuania, before emigrating to Canada, used to make p'tcha in the '60s. Personally, I found it disgusting, likening it to a kosher version of the decidedly nonkosher "head cheese". I have not seen it anywhere other than my bubbe's kitchen since those years.
I think it was something that one would eat if one was really really poor. I think its gross.
@@imisstoronto3121 It was the sort of thing I hoped I wouldn't have to accidentally look at, when I opened the "fleishik" fridge.
There is a Hungarian dish like this. Made with pork knuckles, feet. My grandma then took the meat off, and poured the broth into bowls. It was sprinkled with paprika, jelled in frig. Then served with rye bread. Jellied pigs feet. Or head cheese. BTW, I never could eat it either.
Grieves are great and a very healthy choice as it provides healthy natural saturated fats. .
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What's about Morrocan food the best.
So interesting and realy true!
My husband is Jewish. I’m Italian American.
It’s been an adjustment lol
Is there a food called something like tesales misolates i don't know.. My mom keeps mentioning it & i cant find it helppppp!
We can look into it! What's it made with? Where in the world is it from?
More different foods across the world. Where are the links to these dishes?
Jews literally turned their food into gold I think kosher as too much After seeing this video then It this is really good
"Jewish food" is just food that Jewish people cook and/or eat. It could be anything, as long as it doesn't violate the kosher rules for observant Jews. No mixing of milk and meat. No pork. No shellfish. etc. Observant Jews will eat at any restaurant that is kosher. Kosher Chinese and Kosher Indian food restaurants are very popular where available. Non-observant Jews eat whatever they like.
I’m German Jewish
:D yay
You can find pitcha (gala) in any orthodox kosher deli take out i.e meal mart ...you can find chulent there as well
Cholent is not rare at all, but we've almost never seen ptcha available anywhere.
@@UNPACKED almost every kosher takeout store in flatbush, boro park, Williamsburg, monsey has petcha
True
You can find it in any area with an orthodox Jewish community
The five towns Lakewood queens Los Angeles etc wherever Orthodox Jews live
Wonderful thnks I love jews
Omg i reuse tea bags 💜
Nice food fulm