We know that this blog is about cooking food that is not from your own culture, but we’ll make an exception with this one because we already have the pictures of the process, which took place more than 3.5 years ago (back in Israel).
According to wikipedia, Kugel is “any one of a wide variety of traditional baked Jewish side dishes or desserts consisting of ground or processed vegetables, fruit, or other starches combined with a thickening agent (such as oil, egg, or flour). It is sometimes translated as “pudding” or “casserole”".
I got this recipe about 4 years ago from Avishay, whom I worked with and who had gotten it from his mother. He brought a piece of Kugel to work one day and after having a bite of it I demanded the recipe immediately.
So here are the ingredients for the Kugel:
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 a cup of sugar
- 1/2 a cup of chopped walnuts
- 1 teaspoon of cinnamon
- 1/2 a cup of white raisins (soaked in water a little bit and cut in halves)
- 250 gr (or about 9 oz ) of wide thin noodles (see pictures below of what they look like)
- 4-5 green apples (the ones that have sour taste, such as Granny Smith for example)
The process is pretty straight forward. Just mix all the ingredients in their order of appearance in the list above. This is how we did it. We started with grating the apples.
Then we cooked the noodles (just as you cook regular noodles - simply follow the instructions on the package :)).
When the noodles and the apples were ready, we started the mixing.
First were the eggs and the sugar.
Then we added the nuts, the raisins and the cinnamon.
Finally, we added the noodles and the apples and mixed everything well.
We placed the mix into a pan and sent it into the oven for 50-55 minutes at 190C (375F).
This is what it looked like when it was ready.
And this is me enjoying the final product :)
