#passover tortillas

[sialiaskitchen]

Taco night at last.

I have been waiting since before Purim.

Family verdict: should have made lots more tortillas.

Yay!!

Is it too early to post Passover recipes? Is there anyone out there observing

Ashkenazic rules (but gebrocht ok) who wants to know how to make soft, flexible matzomeal tortilla?

I assume Sephardi would just use masa, if available. So kitniyot eaters are probably being smug at me, and enjoying beans and rice with their Passover tacos.

But if you happen to need a matzomeal tortilla, here's the thing: matzomeal behaves exactly like masa. Treat it the same and you get tortilla.

[achromic-red-dreams-doze-angrily]

solidarity lament with my fellow latino ashkenazim. they want us to drop chametz AND corn AND rice AND beans???? what am i supposed to put all my salsa on

[zumer-feygele]

Latin Jews I have a vitally important question: could you use a tortillera to make matzahs?

[doulayogimama]

It's Passover cleaning day. Lord help me, I loathe this holiday.

However, this will probably be the most tolerable year yet. Through a lot of communication with Kevin's mom, I've been able to find out that my room can be a Sephardi room and because Kevin is married to me, he can eat Sephardi food too, lol. I am also permitted gluten free items, like crackers. So I have almond + seed crackers that I can eat with hummus this year, which is a big win - that's my go to snack or girl lunch along with some fruit or something (is this what the kids say????)

ALSO - I found out Sephardi can have CORN!!! I can eat tortilla chips and guac, I can make bean + cheese quesadillas so long as the pan is my own and I wash it outside, lmao. I might just run out to the nearest taco place but ya know, it's amazinggg that I have tortilla chips to eat this year.

I am going to roast sweet potatoes and wash garbanzo + black beans. I can make a big salad with all of the above plus with the sweet potato and avo I can make tik tok sushi with the baby nori sheets (I have microwaveable sticky rice I can make because yes, I have a non kosher microwave and fridge in our room hahaha).

This week is just insanity with the food and cleaning, phewwww.

[sialiaskitchen]

THESE LOOK AMAZING!!!!!

You have totally made my day! Wow. So beautiful.

I'm so happy. Thank you for the photos and write up.

Guys, if you keep kosher for Passover and do not eat kitniyot and want something exciting this year, you NEED to head to @sialiaskitchen and check out the recipe for matzo meal tortillas. I had a go making them properly today and these things are MAGIC!

The only things I'd recommend are:

1. Make sure to knead each portion of tortilla "dough" until they are properly smooth, it will make sure you get a smooth outside to the tortillas and prevent them cracking. This will take maybe 1 minute for each one. I just kept squishing it in my hand and then rolled it into a ball.

2. If, like me, you don't have a tortilla press, you can place the balls between parchment paper and then put it on the floor with a flat board above and then gently step on the board. I ended up on one leg with my entire body weight on the board and then gave them a little roll with a rolling pin just to even put the shape if necessary.

3. Trust Sialia's process. They need to stand, covered, to soften and I promise they will - just don't be worried if it takes a little longer than you expect. I piled them all up under a bowl and once a few were there and steaming, they softened much faster.

For anyone interested, the filling is pulled jackfruit and butternut squash in a guajillo and ancho chilli sauce. It's then sprinkled with queso fresco - although pick your fave cheese if you prefer, chopped red onion (purple), red onion soaked in red wine vinegar and sugar - a quick pickled onion (pink), and coriander/cilantro. 10/10 will be making again

[jellybeanium124]

Saw tags about the corn during Passover (also that starts tonight. I'm sending appropriate wishes to you) . Anyway, tacos. In corn tortillas. Are yummy.

I do prefer wheat tortillas but I have done corn on passover. but sometimes corn tortillas still have wheat in them? you always gotta check stuff.

[salvadorbonaparte]

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All the food recommendations pls xoxo

Hiiiiii

7. Favorite food from the country that speaks your target language

Spanish: I mostly only have experience with food from Iberia and then especially from the Catalan Countries and Galicia. There are the popular classics like paella and tortilla (with onion) that are popular for a reason (delicious). I also can't get enough of pementos de padrón and polbo á feira. Manzanilla olives are my favourite type of olives and we always try to have some at home. When it comes to sweets there's obviously crema catalana, turrón (both duro and blando) and tarta de Santiago. I could probably go on but now I'm getting hungry and "home"sick.

Portuguese: I really wanted to go to a Brazilian restaurant in Cork but didn't have the time so I can just talk about Portugal. Pastel de nata is like the dessert of all time. I also really loved the Francesinha I had even though ngl they don't look very nice. In Porto we also had something similar to polbo á feira but I don't know what it's called there but like the seafood in general is just amazing. On Madeira you can get bolo do caco and fish dishes with espada which is some deep sea fish they often serve with passion fruit or banana.

Romanian: I didn't actually get to eat any Romanian food so these are just things I want to try. Sarmale, ciorba rădăuțeană, mămăligă.

Yiddish: One of my friends recently made hamentaschen for Purim and matzah brittle for Passover. Shout out to the classic bagel with lox I guess too.

Bonus stuff I tried recently and loved despite not being target languages: Korean tteokbokki, Japanese katsu curry and some tofu dish I forgot the name of, Belgian cherry beer, American lobster rolls.

[atthebell-moved]

forgot to buy corn tortillas so i cant survive off quesadillas like i usually do during passover :[

[pepprs]

ok hi. not to be stupid about this publicly once again but it’s 5:34 am [update it is now 5:53 am] and i have gotten absolutely HORRIBLE sleep tonight. first bc i was so stressed that i couldn’t fall asleep until 1:30am. then because my sister is sleeping in our room again (long story) which is good for her bc she’s making progress w her ocd but it means that she comes in with h the flashlight on after 2am and has to check the room and she leaves the bedroom door wide open which distorts the white noise from the sojnd machine which is right in front of my bed. and she’s like laughing at stuff on her phone too so all the subtleties of sound and light disrupt me and wake me up and throw me off. and also it’s freakishly hot so i woke up a couple times bc of that. and now im awake at 5:30ish after barely sleeping for 4 hours bc im stressed bc it’s Passover and my moms bday and im leaving work early today and tomorrow for the “””””Seder””””” (which again literally is not a seder it’s just dinner w my grandpa) and barely have time to get anything done at work and haven’t done anything for my mom and have to clean the house for my grandpa to come over and we literally don’t even have a dinner table yet likr idkw aht the fuck we’re going to do.. and also im fucking STARVING. because guess what!!!! we have to stop eating bread!!!! and i usually have 4 slices with avocado / guac on them before i go to sleep but there were only 4 slices left in the whole house so i had 2 so my brother will get to have the other 2 during the day. and my stomach is howling rn. and we have other things to eat like fruit and stuff but nothing that’s not going to throw me off.. like im not about to eat an orange at 5:30am it’s going to set my throat on fire with the acid this early in the morning. and we don’t have any snack foods in this house or like anything that can be made without having to prepare it for a while bc of our diet (lol). and we don’t have any flatbread or tortillas or whatever yet. so im going fucking crazy and feeling resentful abt passover again and wondering what the hell im going to do going into work and not being able to eat bagels for breakfast after not being able to eat my bedtime snack and being this hungry and stressed and miserable for a week on top of everything else. lol

[fabfemmeboy]

I noticed in your tags you said that some kosher laws are racist. I'm kind of confused by that, I've never heard that before. Could you explain what you mean?

So the answer to this is long and complicated and nuanced, and it does rely on the perceived racial/cultural differences between Jews in different parts of the world, but as a (relatively) brief overview:

Because we're a diasporic people, different traditions grew and evolved in different local Jewish communities over centuries. When Judaism kind of coalesced into the modern streams and overseeing bodies were determining which versions of the traditions were doctrinally "correct," they pretty much always chose the ones that matched Ashkenazi traditions/rules and said that the ones that Sephardi and/or Mizrahi Jews practiced were incorrect. Given that Ashkenazim were generally white-adjacent while Sephardi and MIzrahi Jews were generally not-white-adjacent, and given that race is a social construct based on who's "like us" and who's "not like us" largely using cultural background and perceived physical characteristics, it feels fair to me to call that "race-based."

The example that's easiest to unpack is kitniyot. Until only a few years ago, it was prohibited during Pesach for Jews in most streams. The rationale was that kitniyot contained items that could easily be mistaken for the 5 prohibited grains, and therefore either a person could inadvertently consume a prohibited grain while eating kitniyot OR a person could see someone eating a product made with kitniyot, assume it meant they could eat the 'usual' version of the product, and thereby eat one of the prohibited grains. What was included in kitniyot? Legumes, rice, corn, a lot of things eaten in Latin America, MENA, etc. What was not included in kitniyot? Potatoes, which are most common in Europe (especially Eastern Europe, where Ashkenazim lived when making these traditions).

Conservative and Orthodox Judaism literally said that Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews (who were fine with kitniyot during Pesach) were celebrating it wrong and violating the rules of Pesach by eating...hummus. Chicken and rice. Corn tortillas. All sorts of things. Why? Because you can make rice flour or almond flour, make something out of it that looks like it's made with wheat flour, and lead innocent Jews down a path of destruction. Ok, fine, fence around Torah and all that. But if you look on any Kosher for Passover shelf in any western supermarket, it's an array of items designed to look and taste as much like their wheat-flour products as possible. Those are allowed, because they use potato flour.

There are also some discrepancies as to whether the Sephardi traditions are considered 'valid'/proper when it comes to things like defining meat (e.g. fish isn't pareve in all cultures!), etc.

[sunshine-tattoo]

Any tips on cooking Jewish holiday food for a gentile? My wife and bestie/room mate are both Jewish. Wife hates all holidays and Bestie will skip beloved holiday foods to not be a bother, and other than Chanukah latkes and challah bread I have zero idea what would be a delightful holiday meal to surprise them with. Bestie is Russian Jewish if that matters at all. Asking because of the comment in your post about gluten saying to ask you questions!

Lol I'm probably the last person to ask about stuff like this since my family has never been very traditional about foods. We are big foodies who eat basically everything and definitely have never kept kosher. Its kinda a running joke in our family about the time at a Vietnamese restaurant my uncle ordered a soup with both shellfish and pork and enjoyed the whole thing.

However there are a few general principles that I follow.

The first question is the holiday solem or festive?

Solem holidays are ones like Passover where it is about spirituality so the food is more symbolic than anything. I would recommend following tradition as best ya can here. Or trying to at least. For example, I often can't find matzah in my city so I'll use corn tortillas instead. No yeast.

Festive holidays are ones like Hanukkah where its about celebrating a victory. And basically partying the way the gentiles do with lots of food and booze.

This one you can get a bit more creative. For example, my family not only has latkes at Hanukkah every year but also fried chicken and fried okra. Because we are from the southern USA and that shit is amazing. But the important part is using lots of oil to celebrate the miracle of the menorah. (I also celebrate by telling colonizers to go fuck themselves but that's just me lol.)

Honestly the best advice I can give is talk to your wife and bestie about things they enjoyed during childhood. Every Jewish household is different so it's important to make that personal connection.

And talk to your local Jewish deli about recipes. If there is one thing our community knows, its how to eat. 😋

Hope this helps! Happy belated Purim!

[bishopclimate]

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[jungleboy-cruise]

I do not live near my synagogue nor can I afford tickets to attend the passover seder. I am the only Jew I know so I cant throw my own seder and I converted so my family is obviously not throwing one as they are not Jewish. Does anybody at all have a free space in their zoom seder maybe? I won't have any of the food required because we don't have any food (other than rice jam and corn tortillas we can't afford food) but I can be there and feel a part of something

[ratboydipshit]

flat breads are, almost universally, superior to not-flat breads. what kind of sick freak would pick a baguette or the cake they sell in bags as "sliced white bread" over something like focaccia or naan or roti. tortillas full stop. rye is an honorary flatbread imo but check with your community if you practice religious dietary restrictions during Passover or observe other similar important traditions

[tropical-lazor-beams]

homestar: hey strong bad. did you know passover is coming up? sb: uh, yes homestar, i did. i am almost amazed that you know this. why do you know this? homestar: well, y'see ess-bee, i was having a bread sing-along in the comfort of my own home, by which i mean marzipan's house, because you can't have a sing-along with only one person and no stick. but then i realized, hey! there's an awful lot of yeasty-beasties in this bread! you can't be eat-along that at passover. sb: doesn't marzipan have like, an entire section of her kitchen dedicated to some organic-vergrown whole wheat sourdough poofer proofer bread starter thing? homestar: she does? i didn't know that. what does that have to do with yeast, though? sb: nevermind, forget i even said that. homestar: yeah, anyway, i wrote this whole new album of tunes all about un-heavened breads. there's a tortilla tagelied, a chapati chorale, a lovely laud to lefse and, of course a matzah medley to close it all off. sb: great, man. tell me when bubs has it in stock so i can avoid his stand for the next week. homestar: sure thing!