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How to make kasha varnishkes
Kashe varnishkes (sometimes Americanized as kasha varnishkas) is a traditional Ashkenazi Jewish dish that combines kasha (buckwheat groats) with noodles, typically farfalle bow-tie pasta.
Contents
- How to make kasha varnishkes
- Kasha varnishkes bowtie pasta or farfalle and buckwheat groats
- Origins
- References
Buckwheat groats (also known as gretshkes/greytshkelach or retshkes/reytshkelach in Yiddish) are prepared separately from, and then fried together with, lokshen (noodles) and tsibelach (onions) in schmaltz (poultry fat). Sometimes briye (chicken or beef stock) is used in the preparation.
Kasha varnishkes bowtie pasta or farfalle and buckwheat groats
Origins
Kasha varnishkes are part of Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine. Jews from Eastern Europe brought the food to America and it is widely popular in the American Jewish community.
The name "varnishkes" seems to be a Yiddish corruption of the Russian "varenichki", small stuffed dumplings. A recipe from 1925 shows kashe-filled dumplings, rather than the simpler kashe with farfalle.
