Name: Malai
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Yield: Serves 6 as a side dish, 4 as a light main course for a dairy brunch
Cuisine: Poland
Ingredients: 1 cup low- or no-fat buttermilk; ¼ cup yellow cornmeal; 5 tablespoons unbleached white flour; Pinch of salt; 1 teaspoon baking powder; ½ cup egg substitute; ½ cup sugar; 1 tablespoon melted butter (preferably salted) or margarine; 1½ cups no-fat sour cream for serving (optional); 1 pound low- or no-fat farmer cheese or small curd cottage cheese; Spray oil

Preparation info

Serves
6
as a side dish, 4 as a light main course for a dairy brunch

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
1 hr 5

Appears in

Healthy Jewish Cooking

By Steven Raichlen

Published 2000

About

“I have another recipe for you,” my friend Shirley says with excitement. Since learning about this book, Shirley has appointed herself my resident authority on Polish-Jewish cooking. Her expertise comes from a lifetime spent with relatives from Kozienice, Poland, who survived the Holocaust and settled in Israel and the United States. This dish comes from Shirley’s friend Franya Rubinek and it’s unlike anything I’ve ever tasted. Think of a cross between spoonbread and cheesecake (with overto