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Carrot Tzimmes: Squirrel Hill Food Pantry Healthy Recipe Series

On Rosh Hashanah, sweet foods symbolize the wish for a good, sweet year ahead! Enjoy this Jamie Geller sweet and honey-infused tzimmes to start off the new year.

Carrot Tzimmes

Ingredients

  • 1 pound carrots
  • 1 sweet potato
  • 2 parsnips, peeled and cut into chunks,
  • 1/2 cup prunes
  • ½ cup orange jam
  • 1½ cups chicken stock (or vegetable stock for parve version)
  • 1 teaspoon ground ginger
  • 1 sprig rosemary or ½ teaspoon dried rosemary
  • pinch of salt and pepper

Preparation

  1. In a medium stockpot, place carrots, sweet potato, parsnips, prunes, orange jam, chicken stock, ginger, rosemary, salt and pepper.
  2. Bring to a boil, lower heat to a simmer and cook for twenty minutes, covered.
  3. Serve warm.

Tip: If made in advance, add extra stock for reheating.   

Recipe originally published in Joy of Kosher with Jamie Geller Magazine Fall 2014

 

About JFCS Pittsburgh Squirrel Hill Food Pantry

The Squirrel Hill Food Pantry has been a cornerstone of Jewish Family and Community Services (JFCS) Pittsburgh since 1999. It offers nutritious, fresh food for neighbors meeting income eligibility requirements in the 15217 zip code as well as kosher food for families who live in the Southwest PA region. For more information, visit www.jfcspgh.org/squirrel-hill-food-pantry or call (412) 421-2708.