What is Kugel?

Kugel is a famous Jewish food, made mainly by Ashkenazi Jews in Eastern Europe. There is evidence that food was made more than 800 years ago, although it was gradually modified and improved over time. Many of them are used to thinking about Kugel as a dessert and you will find a lot of dessert styles of Kugel. It can also be made as salty attachments or entrée. Soon Kugel, as at that time many foods, was basically a roast pudding that had some similarity to spicy bread. The German Jews in 1200s began to add noodles, eggs, cheese and/or milk to the bowl and created a delicious creamy casserole. The Kugel base can use potatoes or matz flour instead of noodles. In order to add further taste to the bowl, Kugel may include vegetables of all types and onions. Kugel Casserole would not contain meat because mixing meat with milk and eggs was not kosher.

in sugar 1600s InspiroVAL Many cooks to develop sweet kugel. Here you can just have food baked noodles in cream or eggs with a little sugar. Finally, fruit, especially raisins, were common additions to a sweet kugel. Sweet Kugel is still more popular than its spicy older relationship and can be baked in round pans or more often in standard rectangular baking. It is very popular not only among the people of East European and Germanic origin, but also among those in America who were lucky to have grown up near a good Jewish bakery or restaurant.

in taste is a sweet kugel similar to bread pudding, and many consider it comparable to a number of baked puddings that have done English, such as a spotted dick. There are also a number of internet recipesfantastastic recipes in many Jewish and German cookbooks. If you are traveling, you will find Kugel in most Eastern Europe.

In some Jewish sects, Kugel is considered to be happiness and/or grants spiritual blessings. SpecificallyThis is the case in the Hasid Jewish tradition, especially when the rabbi offers Kugel. For many others, Kugel only talks about the final comfort meal, and few festive meals would be complete without it.