Chicken Gefilte Balls (Falshe Fish) and Green Olive Sauce

Name: Chicken Gefilte Balls (Falshe Fish) and Green Olive Sauce
Yield: Yield: 8 servings
Ingredients: soft lettuce, Belgian endive, or radicchio leaves for lining serving plates; Green Olive Sauce or prepared horseradish; 2 thick slices challah, crusts removed and discarded, bread torn into small pieces (about 1½ cups packed); ½ cup grated carrot (optional); 3 large eggs; 1½ pounds skinless, boneless chicken breasts (if you prefer, have the butcher grind the chicken for you); 4 chicken wings (about 1–1½ pounds); ½ pound onions, chopped (2 cups); 1 large garlic clove; Sugar; Salt; 3 large carrots, scraped and cut into chunks; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; 2 celery stalks; 2 large or 3 medium onions, peeled and cut into quarters; ¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, or to taste

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Yield:
8
servings

Difficulty
Complex

Appears in

The Gefilte Variations

By Jayne Cohen

Published 2000

About

Jewish cuisine is full of make-believe. Many dishes are kosher analogues of foods Jews around the world found enticing. Italian Jews devised chazirello, breast of veal redolent of rosemary and garlic to mimic roasted piglets, and silken prosciutto d’oca, “ham” fashioned from goose, a delicacy relished today as much by Gentiles as by Jews. Turkish Jews make a rich milk pudding that does not break the laws of kashrut as a substitute for tavuk gogsu, a swe

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Side dish
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Summer
Jewish

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