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I receive many requests for Ashkenazi-friendly Passover recipes. I have compiled the following list, which has proven useful in recent years.
Mains
- Vegan Shepherd's Pie (recipe here). This is absolutely delicious and very satisfying.
- Quinoa pilaf 1: tri-color quinoa cooked with dried or fresh mushrooms, crushed walnuts, and dried cranberries, olive oil, seasoned with seasonings like thyme, and mixed with oven-roasted chopped zucchini and carrots and summer squash. Very easy -- just cook the quinoa while you roast some finely chopped veggies in the oven. Then mix it all.
- Quinoa pilaf 2: white quinoa cooked and tossed with fresh mango cubes, lime, cashews, and shredded coconut and anything else to give it a 'tropical' twist including avocado, sliced almonds, jicama, pineapple, cilantro, etc. Just cook the quinoa and toss with the other ingredients and put in fridge.
- Roasted bell peppers stuffed with quinoa pilaf 1 (above) or just seasoned tricolor or regular quinoa.
- Raw foods recipes, including raw lasagna with cashew cheese and sundried tomato sauce with zucchini noodles, for instance:
- Lasanga (recipe here). Leave out the nutritional yeast. There are many raw lasagna recipes online including simpler ones; I haven't made this particular recipe, but ones like it.
- Carrot and zucchini 'pasta' with avocado and cucumber sauce (recipe here).
- Avocado pesto zucchini noodles (recipe here).
- I like to look at raw food blogs and restaurant menus for inspiration.
- Passover nutloaf (recipe here)
- Quinoa fennel salad (recipe here)
- Avocado pesto zucchini noodles (recipe here).
Sides
- Mock chopped liver (there are many variations of this online, some with cashews instead of walnuts -- it's also fun to add spices): https://www.peta.org/
recipes/chopped-liver-spread/ (Cashew version: https://www. vegkitchen.com/passover-mock- chopped-liver/ - Tzimmes (usually vegan by default)
- Charoset
- Various soups, like potato leek or tomato soup
Desserts
- 7 ingredient vegan cheesecake (recipe here). If you cannot find coconut milk, you can use or make your own almond milk. I've made this with frozen blueberries and cardamom and it was amazing! Also a great recipe for Shavuot.
- Raw carrot cake with cashew frosting: https://www.
gimmesomeoven.com/raw-carrot- cake-with-cashew-cream-cheese- frosting/ (I would substitute maple syrup for the honey) or https://minimalistbaker. com/raw-carrot-cake-with- vegan-cream-cheese-frosting/
- Chocolate covered matzo (pareve with egg-free matzo)
- Chocolate covered almonds (my favorite!)
With Gebrokts
Matzo granola (I eat a lot of this each year, using maple syrup instead of honey, assuming gebrokts since it has maple syrup and oil): https://sherisilver.com/
- Vegan matzo ball soup
- Vegan 'gefilte fish': https://www.peta.org/
recipes/vegan-gefilte-fish/
- Sweet potato kugel: https://www.
thespruceeats.com/vegan-sweet- potato-kugel-recipe-
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