The 30 Minute Kosher Cook: More Than 130 Quick & Easy Gourmet Recipes [Hardcover]

Judy Zeidler (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 20, 1999

The 30 Minute Kosher Cook features 130 delicious recipes that can all be prepared in half an hour or less. The author provides useful ideas on how to stock a freezer, what should be in the refrigerator and how to create a quick-fix pantry.'

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

The 30-Minute Kosher Cook contains creative and lively dishes to make in about half an hour. Pizza dough transformed into a crisp cracker bread flavored with rosemary is a perfect example.

Judy Zeidler provides a varied repertoire of ethnic dishes adapted to kosher dietary laws, with particular emphasis on Italian recipes, including a paper-thin frittata seasoned with sage. (She likes using fresh herbs.)

This home cooking features lighter food focused on vegetables, grains, fish, and poultry, though Zeidler does include meat recipes like Stir-Fry London Broil with Swiss Chard and Ginger. Dishes range from the simple inspiration of Coconut Sorbet to the sophisticated Swedish casserole of gravlax or smoked salmon and potatoes.

Friendly with many chefs around Los Angeles, Zeidler shares Michel Richard's recipe for chicken poached in a ziploc bag with wine and vegetables and a blissful Tiramisù from Drago Ristorante in Santa Monica, California.

Everyday dishes such as meat loaf, simple green beans, and cauliflower are not overlooked. Nor are traditional Jewish favorites. The sweet potato and noodle kugel, a pudding-like dish, and the flourless Hazelnut Sponge Cake for Passover are irresistible.

To reduce time spent in the kitchen and at the store, Zeidler recommends items to keep on hand in the pantry, the refrigerator, and the freezer. She also helps by interspersing advice among the recipes. You'll learn when to use lemon juice versus vinegar on salads, and what cuts of meat are kosher (flanken is, flank steak is not).

Zeidler delivers on her promise of 30-minute recipes. And whether you're a novice cook or an accomplished home chef, there's something to learn from her great tips and flavor combinations. --Dana Jacobi

From Publishers Weekly

Assuming that her readers are already familiar with kosher cooking, Zeidler (The Gourmet Jewish Cook; Master Chefs Cook Kosher) sidesteps the specifics of ritual meal preparation and offers easy-to-prepare dishes that will please hungry family members in a hurry. Key to quick kosher cuisine, she says, is a well-stocked and organized pantry and refrigerator, plus learning how to perform a number of kitchen tasks simultaneously. Most of Zeidler's dishes are lighter than traditional kosher fare, with only a handful relying on meats (which usually take a longer time to cook). Vegetable dishes include Mashed Potatoes and Green Cabbage, Potato Latkes with Chopped Olive Spread, Spinach with Anchovies and Pine Nuts, and Balsamic Glazed Carrots. Zeidler offers a surprising assortment of entrees: Halibut with Kumquats and Passion Fruit; Chilean Sea Bass with Tomato-Fennel Stew; Skillet-Grilled Lamb Chips with Mushroom Sauce. There are also recipes for traditional Jewish favorites for cooks with a bit more time, such as Classic Challah Bread, Holiday Sweet Potato Kugel, Poppy Seed Hamantaschen and Passover Hazelnut Sponge Cake. Home cooks do not need to keep a kosher kitchen to enjoy Zeidler's recipes.
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: William Morrow Cookbooks; 1 edition (January 20, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0688155332
• ISBN-13: 978-0688155339
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 7.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #722,015 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars quick, easy and kosher--a good combination, February 15, 1999

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This review is from: The 30 Minute Kosher Cook: More Than 130 Quick & Easy Gourmet Recipes (Hardcover)

Judy Zeidler comes up with good ideas and these are more simple than her other books...some are perhaps simplistic, but on the whole it's a good book for the kosher cook who's in a hurry. One omission is that she doesn't designate which are dairy and which are meat or pareve; those in the know will know; others could probably use more help, but it is a worthwhile book to add to your kosher cooking collection.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quick, easy, delicious AND kosher, November 4, 2003

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Eve (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The 30 Minute Kosher Cook: More Than 130 Quick & Easy Gourmet Recipes (Hardcover)

'The 30-minute Kosher Cook' recipe book by Judy Zeidler is brilliant. Truthfully, I haven't tried every single recipe, but I have tried the majority of them and they are everything they are supposed to be - quick, easy, tasty & of course, (the best of all) kosher recipes. I especially like her bread recipes and the Apple Pizza (for Rosh HaShana) was also a success.
If you're a kosher (or not) cook, who's in a real hurry (aren't we all?), then this is the cookbook for you! Truly, this is one of the best cookbooks I own.
Also highly recommended in addition to this book, is 'Jewish Cooking for Dummies' by Faye Levy.