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; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; Sugar; ½ pound onions, chopped (2 cups); Salt; 2 thick slices challah, crusts removed and discarded, bread torn into small pieces (about 1½ cups packed); 1½ pounds skinless, boneless chicken breasts (if you prefer, have the butcher grind the chicken for you); 1 large garlic clove; ¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, or to taste; 2 celery stalks; 2 large or 3 medium onions, peeled and cut into quarters; 3 large carrots, scraped and cut into chunks; 4 chicken wings (about 1–1½ pounds); ½ cup grated carrot (optional); 3 large eggs

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Yield:
8
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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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Starter
Side dish
Jewish
Summer

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