Best 17 Cholent Recipes

CHOLENT

Steps:

• Line the bottom of a slow cooker with the potatoes, the onion and then the short ribs, sprinkling the meat with pepper to taste.
• Scatter the barley and the beans on top, then pour on the broth and the honey or molasses. Sprinkle with the paprika and salt to taste. Add enough water to cover all the ingredients. Cook on low for 12 to 15 hours, stirring occasionally (except during Shabbat, for those who observe it), adding more water if necessary. The longer the cholent cooks, the better it will be.

BEEF STEW/ CHOLENT FOR CROCK POT

Steps:

• Slice up onions and sautee in the 2 tablespoons of olive oil until translucent
• Cut up the sweet potatoes into medium sized chunks and place in crock pot.
• Put the barley, chicken stock, stew meat, and onions into the crock pot.
• Add the garlic salt and paprika.
• Cook on low for 6 hours.

JOAN NATHAN'S CHOLENT

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 225 degrees F. In a skillet saute chopped onions in oil until softened. Add meat and brown well.
• In an 8-quart casserole heat honey for a few minutes until lightly caramelized. Add rinsed, drained beans, barley, potatoes and the meat. Scatter garlic cloves around the meat. Dissolve salt, pepper and paprika in a cup of water and pour over meat. Add whole onion and bones. Add enough water to cover ingredients.
• Bring to a boil, cover with aluminum foil and lid and simmer 15 minutes. Transfer casserole to oven and cook overnight. The next morning, check casserole. If water still covers meat, uncover and cook until water evaporates to a thick sauce, about 2 hours. To serve, spoon onto a large platter, keeping each ingredient separate.

EDITH KLEIN'S CHOLENT

Steps:

• Place beans in a bowl, cover with cold water to a depth of 2 inches and allow to soak at least 4 hours or overnight.
• Heat fat or oil in a large, heavy casserole. Add onions and shallots and saute until golden. Stir in garlic and cook for about a minute. Remove the vegetables from the pan with a slotted spoon, draining them well, and set aside.
• Brown chunks of beef lightly in the fat and remove them.
• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• Cut pastrami into 1-inch cubes and stir them into the fat, then stir in the paprika and honey. Return onions, shallots, garlic and beef to casserole. Stir in barley. Drain beans and add them.
• Add 6 cups boiling water to casserole. Cover and place in oven. Bake for 30 minutes.
• Reduce heat to 250 degrees and bake 30 minutes longer. Remove lid, season to taste with salt and pepper, then cover casserole with a piece of aluminum foil and replace the lid. Place in oven and allow to bake 7 to 8 hours or overnight.

CHOLENT BRISKET

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 225 degrees. In a Dutch oven with a tight-fitting lid, over high heat, heat 1/2 cup oil. Season the brisket with salt and pepper. Brown the brisket in the oil on both sides, then transfer to a platter.
• Drain the oil from the Dutch oven. Add the remaining 1/2 cup oil and reduce the heat to medium. Add the onions and paprika and cook, stirring, until the onions are brown and soft, about 6 minutes. Add the garlic and cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Stir in the honey. Remove the Dutch oven from the heat.
• Place the brisket on the onion-garlic mixture. Surround the brisket with the potatoes, carrots, beans, lentils and barley and place the marrowbones on top. Cover with cold water by 4 inches. Stir in 1 tablespoon salt and 1 teaspoon pepper. Return the Dutch oven to the heat and bring to a boil. Skim off any scum that forms on the surface of the liquid. Cover and place it in the oven. Bake for 8 hours or overnight.
• Remove the brisket from the oven. If it seems dry, moisten it with a little water. When ready to serve, reheat, covered, in a 350-degree oven until it is hot. Transfer to a large platter and serve.

VEGAN MUSHROOM CHOLENT IN THE CROCK POT

Steps:

• Soak the beans overnight. In the morning drain off the water. Rinse the pearl barley under cold water.
• Heat the oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add the onions through the parsnips and cook, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables are softened. (This should take about 7 minutes.).
• Add the garlic through peppercorns and stir for 1 minute. Add the vegetable stock and take it off the heat.
• Put half the onion and stock mixture into the crockpot. Add half the beans.
• Spread the potatoes on top to make an even layer. Put the mushrooms on top so that it covers the potatoes (cutting the mushrooms to fit if needed).
• Spread the pearl barley on top of the mushrooms and the rest of the beans on top of the barley.
• Add the rest of the onion/stock mix on top.
• Cover and cook on low for 10 to 12 hours or on high for 5 to 6 hours or until the beans are tender.

BRISKET CHOLENT

Steps:

• Rinse Beans in Cold Water, If dry, Soak for 8 Hours Rub Meat with Seasonings, (Garlic, Bay Leaf, Paprika).
• In A Dutch Oven, Or OvenProof, Stovetop Pot, Sweat the onions over medium heat.
• After Onions Brown, Add Barley, Potatoes, Add water, stir slightly before adding Brisket, and covering with water.
• Simmer for 3 hours. Then Preheat Oven to 200 degrees.
• Cover Pot and place in oven for overnight.
• Serve at noon following day.

CHIEF OF STAFF CHOLENT (HEBRONITE HAMIM)

Steps:

• 1. On Thursday night, soak the white or red beans and chickpeas in cold water to cover.
• 2. On Friday morning, in a large heavy pot, sauté the onions in the vegetable oil until translucent. Then add the brown sugar and the water and carefully caramelize the onions over very low heat. Turn off the heat until the remaining ingredients are prepared.
• 3. Drain the beans and scatter them on top of the onions.
• 4. Cut the fat from the brisket, dice the fat, and set it aside. Rinse the rice in cold water and then drain; repeat twice more. Season the rice with 1/2 teaspoon salt and a few grinds of black pepper and dot with about 4 tablespoons of cubed beef fat. Place the rice in the center of a sheet of cheesecloth and enclose it loosely, so that the rice can expand. Tie with a thin strip of cheesecloth or twine and set aside.
• 5. Season the frika, bulgur, or barley with 1/2 teaspoon salt and a few grinds of black pepper, dot with about 4 tablespoons of cubed beef fat, and put it in another piece of cheesecloth. Tie it up loosely.
• 6. Add the beef bones to the onions in the pot. Set the brisket on top, then the 2 bags of grains, the kishke, pearl onions, potatoes, and eggs. Sprinkle with additional salt to taste, pepper, baharat, and soup powder. Add water to cover, cover the pot, and ring to a boil. Then transfer to a preheated 200-degree oven to cook overnight or put the pot on a blech (a heated asbestos pad which many Jewish cooks use to keep Sabbath dishes warm) over low heat and leave until ready to serve.
• Joan Nathan shares her tips with Epicurious:
• •For this dish, Nathan prefers the texture and flavor of dried chickpeas and beans to canned. •Baharat, an Eastern Mediterranean spice blend, generally includes paprika, hot pepper, black pepper, cumin, coriander, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, cardamom, cloves, and salt. It is available at Middle Eastern markets. If you can't find it, Nathan recommends using your favorites from the list above, being sure to include pepper. •"This dish can easily be made in a slow cooker," says Nathan. "Sauté the onions and place them in the cooker, then add the drained beans and other ingredients. Leave the dish to cook throughout the day or overnight."

SHABBAT CHAMIN / CHOLENT (MEAT AND POTATO STEW)

Steps:

• Combine all ingredient in a large crock pot (eggs on top), and add water to cover 1-2 inches above.
• Cook on high for 2 hours, then reduce heat to low, and continue to cook overnight and into the daytime, for a total cooking time of approximately 12-14 hours (It will be ready to eat before 12 hours of cooking time, but tastes the best when cooked for a very long time)
• Note: You can increase or decrease the amount of spices as per your liking. You can even add a dash of ginger and allspice. Avoid the urge to stir this - your potatoes will break into a mush.

CHOLENT

Steps:

• Soak beans overnight and rinse beans.
• I also rinse the barley.
• In large frying pan heat oil and add onion.
• Fry until browned.
• Add meat cubes and brown.
• Add tomato paste, onion soup mix, brown sugar and 1 cup of water and simmer on low flame with lid for approx 20 minutes.
• Now using a crock pot.
• Add peeled potatoes.
• I like them whole, but some like to cut them in chunks.
• Add soaked and rinsed beans and rinsed barley.
• Pour sauce and meat mixture over this and try to mix.
• Add approx 3/4- 1 cup of water or until it is barely covered.
• Place in crockpot on low right before the Sabbath and it will be ready the next day for lunch.
• The entire house will smell amazing.
• Remove liner from crockpot and let sit about 15 minutes.
• Stir gently and serve.

BEEF AND BEAN STEW (CHOLENT)

Steps:

• Soak the beans in water to cover for 8 hours, and drain.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. In a large clay pot, place the beans, beef, potatoes, salt, pepper, onion and water. Cover the pot tightly, first with a piece of aluminum foil, then with the lid of the pot.
• Put the pot in the oven for 30 minutes. Then reduce the heat to 200 degrees and bake overnight, at least 10 hours. Do not stir or disturb in any way.
• Warm the chicken broth. Ladle the stew into soup plates. Ladle the chicken broth over the stew and serve.

MOM'S AUTHENTIC KOSHER CHOLENT RECIPE

Steps:

• In a large oven safe pot or roasting pan, saute onions in oil over medium heat.
• Add meat, and brown well on all sides.
• Mix in beans, stir continuously until the beans start to shrivel.
• Stir in the barley.
• Add potatoes, and add just enough boiling water to cover the meat and potatoes.
• Mix in dry soup mix and garlic.
• Season with salt and pepper.
• Bring to a boil, lower heat, and simmer partially covered for 20 minutes on stove top.
• Preheat oven to 200 degrees F (95 degrees C).
• Cover pot tightly, and place in preheated oven.
• Allow to cook overnight for at least 10 to 15 hours.
• Check periodically to make sure you have enough liquid to cover; add small amounts of water if needed.
• Do not stir; stirring will break up the chunks of potatoes.

LOW FAT CHOLENT: ISRAELI CHAMINC ISRAELI CHAMIN (KOSHER-MEAT)

Steps:

• Here it goes -- :.
• Heat pot on the stove - and place meat to fry and seal. Turn the meat to seal it all over. Use a large pot, suitable for the oven as well (I use oval).
• Pour boiled water to half the height of the meat.
• Place the soaked rinsed beans on one side of the pot -.
• Place potatoes on the other side.
• Insert barley into cooking bag (preferable made of cloth).
• On top of beans and potatoes, arrange meat, onions, garlic, cooking bag with barley and the sweet potato - try to even out the height. If you want eggs, this is the time to insert them as well.
• I usually add Kosher Kishka (stuffed darma, has less than 30% fat)- I couldn't add it to the ingredients as the program cannot recognize this food -- -).
• Dilute honey with some warm tab water - and pour all over.
• Dilute salt with some warm tab water - and pour all over.
• Dilute the sweet paprika with some warm tab water - and pour all over.
• Add boiled water to cover it all, make sure it's at least one inch above ingredients.
• Scatter tea bags. (See picture for the prepared pot.).
• Preheat oven to 250 F (120 C).
• Bring to boil on stove.
• Reduce heat and allow cooking with gentle boil for at least two hours.
• Move the pot to the oven.
• Make sure to check on the Chamin and add water if necessary. The water reduces but it mustn't get dry.
• At night, reduce oven's heat to 215 F (100 C).
• Check first thing in the morning!
• See if you need to add some water and reduce or increase oven's heat.
• The smell already drives everybody nuts -- soon, soon - we'll all sit and enjoy a great Chamin.
• Serving:: When you open the pot, everything is arranged in the same order you put it inches Take out cooking bag with barley, open it carefully and pour barley into a serving bowl. Add some of the Chamin's liquids onto barley. Put garlic aside - some like it some don't. Take out each ingredient to a different serving dish or bowl, and pour Chamin's liquids. You'll have several dishes and bowl on the table: meat, beans, barley, potatoes, sweet potato, onion, kishke, (eggs) -- See pictures.
• Enjoy!

PARVE CHOLENT

Steps:

• Heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Stir in the onion; cook and stir until the onion has softened and turned translucent, about 5 minutes. Reduce heat to medium-low, and continue cooking and stirring until the onion is very tender and dark brown, 15 to 20 minutes more.
• Layer half the potatoes on the bottom of a slow cooker. Add the cooked onions and rice; top with the remaining potatoes and beets.
• Nestle the eggs into the mixture: they should be almost completely submerged when you add the water.
• Mix the garlic powder and seasoned salt into 1 cup of water. Pour over the cholent. Season with salt and pepper. Drizzle with 1/4 cup of olive oil.
• Add water to cover. Too much water will make your cholent mushy; not enough may cause it to burn.
• Cover with the lid and set your slow cooker on low; cook overnight.

FUNKY CHOLENT

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a large soup pot over medium heat; cook and stir the onion and garlic until the onion is translucent, about 5 minutes. Add the beef stew meat, and quickly brown the pieces on all sides. Stir in the potatoes, sweet potato, baked beans, ketchup, barbecue sauce, mustard, onion soup mix, seasoned salt, and steak seasoning, and pour in enough water to cover. Bring the mixture to a boil, reduce to a simmer, and cook on low heat until the beef is tender, 1 1/2 to 2 hours, stirring occasionally.
• Stir in the pearl barley, and transfer the stew to a slow cooker set on Low until the barley is tender, about 12 hours.

PAREVE CHOLENT

Steps:

• Place kidney beans, white beans, barley, potatoes, sweet potato, onion, garlic, ketchup, barbeque sauce, soy sauce, brown sugar, garlic powder, onion powder, paprika, pepper, salt, and water in a slow cooker. Mix well. Cook on High for 3 hours, then reduce heat to Low and continue cooking overnight until the beans are tender.

CHOLENT

Steps:

• Soak beans overnight. Drain and discard any stones. Place beans in 8 quart pot and cover the top of the beans with one inch of water. Add the meat and meat bones. Combine remaining ingredients except for potatoes in food processor and mix. Pour mixture over the meat and bring to boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 3 hours on a low flame. Add potatoes and simmer for one hour more. Before Shabbos, place the pot on the blech and add one inch of water above the ingredients. For a pareve cholent, omit the meat and meat bones.