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Garlic Butter Mushroom Pasta

Easy Peasy Vegan Garlic Mushrooms

This recipe serves 2 people as a side dish or 1 person if you’re really ravenous! You can easily double or triple the ingredients for more servings. This recipe takes about 10-15 minutes in total: • Prep time: 5 minutes (washing and chopping mushrooms, mincing garlic) • Cooking time: 7-10 minutes, to sizzle the mushrooms […]

2 15 minutes 2

Smoked tomato & cauliflower curry with tamarind

Alice Feavers recipe, made for FND at JVS, 10th March 2023

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Latest in Baking

Dan’s challah recipe

This is the recipe for the Challah our chairman Dan has been making for recent Friday night meals at JVS. For this recipe, we will be using Aquafaba, you can buy it in supermarkets in the UK under the Oggs brand (now approved by KLBD), or you can make your own. To make it yourself, […]

2 20 mins prep + four hours of raising time. 1

Pitta and man’oushe recipe

We used this recipe for pitta at our Friday night dinner in January 2023 – with a marbled mix of regular dough and dough made with beetroot. Kevin Sefton has written this up based on a recipe included in Emmanuel Hadjiandreou’s “How to Make Bread”. It can also be used to make man’oushe which has […]

6 2 hours 0

Kevin’s challah rolls

Our trustee Kevin Sefton made 50 delicious challah rolls for our Friday night dinner in December 2022. Kevin has kindly written up his recipe due to popular demand. The recipe he used was based on this one for Turkish simit – a street bread which looks like a twisted bagel. He says the recipe “produces […]

6 3 hrs 1

Latest Festival Cooking

Quick and easy vegan hamantaschen

This hamantaschen recipe shouldn’t take you more than 1 and 1/2 hours to make. Many recipes online are overly complicated with lots of ingredients. We’ve tested this recipe courtesy of Vegan Atlas. The biscuit base works with any filling you’d like. Try peanut butter, different jams or even chocolate spread! Just make sure your filling […]

24 90 mins 2

Pan de siete cielos for Shavuot

The Jews of Salonika used to bake el pan de siete cielos – the bread of the seven heavens – as part of their Shavuot celebrations. El pan de siete cielos is a rich fatty bread, flavoured with anise extract or arak. It is sculpted into shapes connected to Shavuot. Traditional shapes included some or all […]