Recipe Wednesday: Special Edition! Kugel, 3 Ways

L’shana Tovah, friends! Tonight kicks off the start of the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah. It is among the holiest days of the year, and also one of the holidays with the best food.

In celebration of the Jewish New Year, I thought I would share with you one of our favorite family recipes — raisin noodle kugel! But in this post you’ll get not just one recipe, not two, but three recipes for the same delicious dish! Over the years I have found that opinions about the ingredients in kugel are as impassioned as opinions are surrounding politics. (Fine, that may be a bit of a stretch… But you get the idea. 🙂 ) One person loves kugel with cottage cheese. The next person can’t have dairy because they keep kosher. And some folks just love kugel with lots of sweet undertones. And this year, I was actually asked about my kugel recipe(s) several times.

Photo courtesy of AARP

So not only will I share with you my family’s recipe, but also two others that I have used and adopted into my own. It is the sweet New Year, after all. I can’t imagine a sweeter treat than sharing a delectable dish with you. 🙂

I should mention two things. One, noodle kugel is great any day of the year. It doesn’t have to be Rosh Hashanah. Two, under no circumstances do you have to be Jewish in order to indulge in this tasty treat. Lots of other religions and cultures eat kugel. We just happen to be very good at making cinnamon-raisin noodle kugel for holidays!

Photo courtesy of Culinary Kosher

What are you waiting for? Check out the three recipes below, pick the one most suited to yours and your family’s tastes, and there you have the kugel recipe just for you.

Happy New Year, my friends. May your year be sweet, blessed, and delicious. Enjoy!

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Mom’s Noodle Kugel

Ingredients

8 oz wide egg noodles
3 eggs
12 oz small curd cottage cheese
2 C milk
1/2 C sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 C melted butter
raisins
Frosted Flakes

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350?F. Beat eggs well. Add cottage cheese (or organic cottage cheese), milk, sugar, and vanilla, and mix together. Add uncooked noodles and stir. Pour melted butter in 9×13 casserole dish and pour in the cottage cheese mixture. Sprinkle crushed (or whole) frosted flakes on top. Bake for one hour. Serves 8-10.

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Easy Noodle Kugel

Ingredients

8 oz wide egg noodles
1 C raisins
5 eggs
1 C sour cream
1/2 C (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted and cooled
1/3 C sugar
4 C milk
cinnamon, to taste
nutmeg, to taste

3 C Frosted Flakes, coarsely crushed
1/4 C packed brown sugar

Directions

Preheat oven to 350?F. Butter 9×13 glass baking dish. Spread uncooked noodles over the bottom of prepared dish and sprinkle with raisins. Whisk eggs, sour cream, butter, and sugar in a large bowl until smooth. Whisk in milk and pour mixture over noodles. Be sure that the mixture completely covers the noodles. Let kugel stand 5 minutes. Sprinkle with cinnamon and nutmeg.

Mix Frosted Flakes and brown sugar in a bowl. Sprinkle evenly over kugel.

Bake until set in the center, about one hour. Cut into squares and serve warm.

Serves 8-10.

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Dairy-free Noodle Kugel

Ingredients

8 oz curly egg noodles
1 C sugar
1/2 C raisins
1/2 Tbsp cinnamon (or to taste)
1 Tbsp butter

Directions

Preheat oven to 350?F. Cook noodles in boiling water for about 5 minutes, or until al dente. Drain and set aside.

Butter a 9×13 baking dish. Add cooked noodles. Combine sugar, raisins, cinnamon and butter. Mix gently, but thoroughly. Cover and bake for about one hour. Serves 8-10.