Preparation info
  • Makes

    8

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      3 hr

Appears in
The Best Recipes in the World: More Than 1,000 International Dishes to Cook at Home

By Mark Bittman

Published 2005

  • About

Like tsimmes, this recipe was originally designed to sit in an oven after a fire had been built, cooking slowly overnight and even into the next day to provide a hot Sabbath meal for Jews who were not allowed to (actively) cook after sunset on Friday. Provided you have no such restrictions, it’s a little easier to make choient, a wonderful stew of any meat, beans, barley, and potatoes; I believe it’s especially good with limas, which in any case are t