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Try Each of These Foods in the Ashkenazi Jewish Cuisine

Taste 50 essentials, home-cooked dishes, deli foods, holiday specialties, and baked goods of Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine.

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  1. 1

    Matzo ball soup

    Chicken soup with matzo dumplings

  2. 2

    Gefilte fish

    Poached ground fish patties

  3. 3

    Latkes

    Fried potato pancakes

  4. 4

    Challah

    Braided egg bread

  5. 5

    Cholent

    Slow-cooked Sabbath stew

  6. 6

    Lokshen kugel

    Sweet noodle pudding

  7. 7

    Jewish-style brisket

    Braised beef brisket

  8. 8

    Kreplach

    Meat-filled dumplings

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    Chopped liver

    Chicken liver spread

  10. 10

    Cheese blintzes

    Cheese-filled crêpes

  11. 11

    Holishkes

    Sweet-and-sour stuffed cabbage

  12. 12

    Tzimmes

    Stewed carrots and dried fruit

  13. 13

    Potato kugel

    Baked potato pudding

  14. 14

    Kugel Yerushalmi

    Peppery caramelized noodle kugel

  15. 15

    Kishka

    Stuffed derma

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    Kasha varnishkes

    Buckwheat groats with bow-tie noodles

  17. 17

    Schmaltz and gribenes

    Rendered chicken fat and cracklings

  18. 18

    Pletzl

    Onion and poppy seed flatbread

  19. 19

    Sweet-and-sour cabbage soup

    Cabbage soup with tomato and beef

  20. 20

    Schav

    Cold sorrel soup

  21. 21

    Pastrami on rye

    Smoked beef sandwich

  22. 22

    Corned beef on rye

    Brined beef sandwich

  23. 23

    Bagel with lox

    Cured salmon and cream cheese

  24. 24

    Knish

    Baked potato-filled pastry

  25. 25

    Whitefish salad

    Smoked whitefish spread

  26. 26

    Pickled herring

    Herring in vinegar brine

  27. 27

    Forshmak

    Chopped herring spread

  28. 28

    Sour pickles

    Brine-fermented cucumbers

  29. 29

    Jewish rye bread

    Caraway rye loaf

  30. 30

    Kosher-style beef hot dog

    All-beef frank

  31. 31

    Ashkenazi charoset

    Apple, walnut, and wine Passover mix

  32. 32

    Matzo brei

    Fried matzo and egg

  33. 33

    Matzah

    Unleavened Passover bread

  34. 34

    Chrain

    Horseradish and beet relish

  35. 35

    Hamantaschen

    Filled triangle cookies for Purim

  36. 36

    Teiglach

    Dough balls boiled in honey

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    Matzo farfel kugel

    Passover matzo pudding

  38. 38

    Babka

    Swirled yeast cake

  39. 39

    Rugelach

    Rolled cream cheese pastries

  40. 40

    Lekach

    Honey cake

  41. 41

    Mandelbrot

    Twice-baked almond cookies

  42. 42

    Black-and-white cookie

    Iced cake-like cookie

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    Rainbow cookies

    Layered almond cookies with chocolate

  44. 44

    Jewish apple cake

    Dairy-free apple cake

  45. 45

    Kokosh cake

    Chocolate or cinnamon yeast cake

  46. 46

    Cheese Danish

    Cheese-filled pastry

  47. 47

    Mohn roll

    Poppy seed roll

  48. 48

    Flanken

    Cross-cut braised short ribs

  49. 49

    Cold beet borscht

    Chilled beet soup

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    Egg barley

    Toasted barley-shaped pasta

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