Gefilte fish loaf is a traditional Jewish dish that is often served during holidays and special occasions. It is a delicious and savory dish that is made with a combination of ground fish, matzo meal, eggs, and spices. The fish loaf is typically poached or baked, and it can be served hot or cold. Gefilte fish loaf is a versatile dish that can be customized to your own liking. You can add your favorite herbs and spices, and you can also choose to use different types of fish. If you are looking for a delicious and easy-to-make recipe for gefilte fish loaf, then you have come to the right place. In this article, we will provide you with a step-by-step guide on how to make the perfect gefilte fish loaf. We will also provide you with some tips and tricks for making the best gefilte fish loaf possible.
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GEFILTE FISH
My mother-in-law took great pains to prepare Gefilte Fish for Passover and Rosh Hashanah. The best legacy she left was to teach her sons how to do it and in turn they would teach their wives and then the next generation. This has been passed down and today it is still appreciated as the Mintz Family Gefilte Fish.
Provided by Daisy
Categories Appetizers and Snacks Seafood
Time 2h35m
Yield 8
Number Of Ingredients 17
Steps:
- Grind the fish, 2 1/2 onions and 4 carrots together. Place fish mixture in a wooden bowl. Using a hand chopper, add eggs one at a time. Add 1 1/2 tablespoons sugar, 4 teaspoons salt and white pepper and continue to chop until very well blended. Stir in the ice water a little at a time throughout this process. Add matzo meal and chop again. Check to see if mixture is thick enough to bind together to make an oval gefilte fish ball and if not add in more matzo meal.
- Meanwhile, fill two large heavy stock pots half full of water . Into each pot slice one raw onion and one sliced carrot. Add fish skins, if desired. Sprinkle in paprika, salt, black pepper and two tablespoons of sugar. Bring to a boil over medium heat and let boil for 10 minutes.
- With wet hands shape the fish balls and carefully drop into boiling stock. Cover slightly and cook over medium-low heat for 2 hours. When done, let fish sit in the pot for 10 minutes, then remove pieces carefully to containers and strain remaining stock over fish balls, just barely covering them. Chill and serve. They will now keep in the refrigerator for up to 6 days.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 513.4 calories, Carbohydrate 32.4 g, Cholesterol 247.9 mg, Fat 14.2 g, Fiber 3.4 g, Protein 62.1 g, SaturatedFat 3.5 g, Sodium 1445.7 mg, Sugar 15.5 g
BAKED GEFILTE FISH IN TOMATO SAUCE
Why work hard when you don't have to? You can enjoy great tasting gefilte fish as a Shabbos appetizer without spending all day in the kitchen.
Provided by Giora Shimoni
Categories Appetizer
Time 3h35m
Yield 8
Number Of Ingredients 2
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 375 F (190 C).
- Let the loaf defrost for about 10 minutes, just enough so you can unwrap it from the paper.
- Pour half of a can of tomato sauce into a loaf pan . Place the gefilte fish loaf on top of the sauce.
- Pour the rest of the tomato sauce on top of the fish loaf. Cover with aluminum foil.
- Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes.
- Cool, and then cover and refrigerate.
- Serve slices of the fish, cold, on top of lettuce.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 67 kcal, Carbohydrate 7 g, Cholesterol 21 mg, Fiber 0 g, Protein 7 g, SaturatedFat 0 g, Sodium 517 mg, Sugar 1 g, Fat 1 g, ServingSize 8 servings, UnsaturatedFat 0 g
GEFILTE FISH LOAF
Another no clue where I got this from, maybe from Peter Pan's mother, maybe not. Good way to serve Gefilte Fish for Passover. Serve with horseradish
Provided by mandabears
Categories European
Time 1h5m
Yield 6-8 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a large bowl mash the gefilte fish and set aside.
- Process the remaining ingredients in a blender or food processor.
- Add to the mashed fish.
- Grease a 9x5 loaf pan, I use cooking spray.
- Pour in fish mixture.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour.
- Remove from oven and cool.
- Turn loaf onto a platter.
- Chill.
- Serve with horseradish.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 176.1, Fat 4.4, SaturatedFat 1.2, Cholesterol 115.9, Sodium 830.8, Carbohydrate 16.9, Fiber 0.8, Sugar 1.8, Protein 16.4
GEFILTE FISH
Provided by Food Network
Number Of Ingredients 19
Steps:
- 1) Combine all ingredients, except the fish skin in a large (8 to 10 quart) braising pot. The skin will be added after the Gefilte fish is cooking. 2) Bring to a boil, then turn down to a simmer. Mix the Gefilte fish while the stock is simmering. The dumplings will be cooked in the stock after it has simmered 20 to 30 minutes and the stock will not be strained until after the Gefilte fish is removed.;
- Grind the fish fillets (which will have the fine pin bones in the meat) through the small plate of a meat grinder. Mix well and grind again. Place the fish in a mixing bowl. Add the eggs, onions, carrots, matzo meal, salt, pepper and sugar. Mix very well. Add the oil and cold water and blend into a smooth paste. Make a small ball and cook in the stock for a couple of minutes. Taste and adjust the seasonings if needed. Have a bowl of water handy. Keeping both hands wet, shape 3-ounces of the mixture into oval balls and drop into the stock. Continue until all are made and added to the stock. After they have cooked 10 minutes, add the skin (it was reserved) to the stock. Cover the pot and simmer slowly for 2 hours, turning and basting the dumplings every 15 or 20 minutes. Remove the Gefilte fish with a slotted spoon and place in a large container. Strain the remaining stock over the Gefilte fish. Pick the carrots slices out of the remains and add to the strained stock as well. Allow the Gefilte fish and carrots to cool in the stock, which should gel when completely chilled. Serve with the jellied stock, carrots and beet-horseradish. Slice the Gefilte fish for a nice presentation.;
MADGE'S GEFILTE FISH
Martha's friend Madge Miller shares her recipe for gefilte fish, a traditional side dish at Passover gatherings. Serve with Madge's Horseradish, which blends beets into the classic sauce.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Appetizers
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- In a large, wide pot, bring fish stock to a boil. Reduce heat to simmer.
- In a large bowl combine whitefish, yellow pike, and carp. Add onions, eggs, matzo meal, salt, pepper, and 1/4 cup cold water. Stir with a wooden spoon until mixture forms a paste.
- Moisten hands with cold water. Shape about 1/3 cup of mixture into an oval slightly larger than an egg (3 to 4 inches long). Place gently in simmering stock. Repeat with remaining mixture. Add carrots. Sprinkle with paprika. Cover and simmer, until firm and opaque, about 1 hour. Cool to room temperature. Transfer to an airtight container. Chill until stock gels, at least 4 hours or overnight. Serve cold, or at room temperature, garnished with fresh horseradish and a sprig of dill. May be made up to 2 days ahead.
GEFILTE FISH TERRINE
Provided by Florence Fabricant
Categories dinner, main course
Time 2h
Yield 12 servings
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Place the carrots in a saucepan, cover with water and simmer 10 minutes. Add the asparagus, and simmer 10 minutes longer, until the vegetables are tender. Drain well.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Slice 2 of the carrots into thin rounds, and cover the bottom of a 9-by-5-by-3-inch loaf pan with a layer of the rounds. Cover with one-third of the fish mixture. Cover with the asparagus, making a dense layer lengthwise in the pan over the fish. Sprinkle with chives. Cover with another third of the fish. Quarter the remaining carrots lengthwise, and arrange them lengthwise in a layer on top of the fish. Cover with the remaining fish, packing it down in the pan.
- Cover the pan with foil, and place it in a larger pan with 1 1/2 inches of boiling water in it. Place in the oven, and bake for 1 1/2 hours. Refrigerate the loaf pan overnight.
- To unmold, run a knife around the pan. Serve with jellied fish broth and horseradish or mayonnaise.
INDIVIDUAL SERVINGS OF GEFILTE FISH
This recipe is adapted from a recipe from 1988. One of the adaptations is changing it from a large loaf, which can fall apart and can be too large for most dinner parties, to individual muffin tin-sized servings. I've been making this for years and I have requests for it every Shabbat, which is saying a lot for gefilte fish! It's quite critical to have a food processor for this recipe.
Provided by slpscientist
Categories Appetizers and Snacks Seafood
Time 2h20m
Yield 16
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Place onions into a food processor and pulse a few times to coarsely chop. Transfer onions to a large bowl. Place carrot into food processor and pulse once or twice to chop; process until very finely chopped, about 30 seconds. Add carrot to onions. Place whitefish fillets into food processor and grind until the fish is a fine paste, about 2 minutes. Add fish to bowl.
- Combine onions, carrot, and whitefish with cold water, matzo meal, egg, egg whites, sugar, vegetable oil, nutmeg, salt, and black pepper, stirring to combine well. Spoon whitefish mixture into 16 muffin cups, filling them level with the top edge.
- Bake in the preheated oven until gefilte fish cakes are set and a toothpick inserted into the center of a cake comes out clean, about 1 hour. Let cool in muffin cups, remove, cover, and refrigerate until chilled, at least 1 hour.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 108 calories, Carbohydrate 5.4 g, Cholesterol 45.7 mg, Fat 4 g, Fiber 0.7 g, Protein 12.2 g, SaturatedFat 0.7 g, Sodium 80.6 mg, Sugar 2 g
GEFILTE FISH
If you loathe gefilte fish, that staple of the Seder, it may just be that you've never had it homemade. In this recipe, created to convert gefilte fish skeptics, the traditional patties are updated with more flavorful fish, and then poached in court-bouillon - that is, a light vegetable broth. Be sure to use a wide pot here; the patties rise to the top as they cook, and you want to give them enough space.
Provided by Joan Nathan
Categories finger foods, appetizer, side dish
Time 40m
Yield About 20 patties
Number Of Ingredients 16
Steps:
- Fill a large, wide pot with 10 cups of water and place over high heat. While bringing to a boil, coarsely chop and add to the pot 1 onion, 1 celery stalk, 1 carrot and the fennel bulb. Add the peppercorns and 1 teaspoon salt. Once water is boiling, reduce the heat and simmer, uncovered, while preparing the fish.
- Coarsely chop the remaining onion, celery stalk and 1 carrot, then pulse in a food processor until finely chopped. Add fish, chives and 2 tablespoons parsley, tarragon and/or dill, and keep pulsing until fish is chopped but not mushy.
- Move the fish mixture to a medium bowl and add eggs, oil, matzo meal, 1 1/2 teaspoons salt (or more to taste) and the ground black pepper, and mix well with your hands.
- Put your hands in a bowl of cold water. Using your hands, mold the fish mixture into a 3- by 2-inch oval patty (about 2 ounces) and gently place on a platter. Repeat with the remaining fish mixture, dipping your hands in water as needed.
- Pop the third carrot into the simmering broth and gently add the patties to the pot. Cover and cook for about 20 minutes until patties are firm.
- Use a slotted spoon to remove the fish and carrot from the poaching liquid to cool on a plate. Slice the carrot diagonally into thin rounds.
- Place each patty on a leaf of radicchio or endive or both. Set the sliced carrot rounds on top of each patty. Garnish with the remaining tablespoon of fresh herbs and serve warm or at room temperature with horseradish, preferably homemade. If making a day ahead, refrigerate, covered, then return the patties to room temperature before serving.
GEFILTE FISH
Steps:
- 1. In a food processor or grinder, grind fish (refrigerate heads and bones for later use), 2 onions, 1 stalk celery, and half a carrot. (If you use a food processor, make sure you leave no large pieces of fish or bones; you may want to transfer the mixture, bit by bit, into a wooden bowl, and go over it vigorously with a hand chopper.)
- 2. Place fish mixture in a large bowl, and add eggs, sugar, salt, pepper, and corn oil, mixing thoroughly with a wire whisk. Stir in matzo meal, and continue to mix until everything is thoroughly blended. Refrigerate for 1 hour or more (longer, even overnight, is better).
- 3. Fill 2 large stockpots three-quarters full of water, and bring to a vigorous boil. In each, throw in half the fish heads and bones, 2 onions, half the celery, and a carrot. Divide batter into 12 patties of equal size. (Don't worry that your batter is a little loose; it has to be that way to keep your gefilte fish light.) Transfer each patty to a large cooking spoon, shape into an oval, and very gently lower it into the boiling water. Put 6 in each pot. Lower heat and simmer for 1 1/2 hours.
- 4. Remove fish balls and carrots from pots, and refrigerate on a covered plate. Discard everything else. Serve chilled with red and/or white horseradish. Slice carrots for garnish.
JOSH'S TUNA GEFILTE FISH LOAF
This really makes good gefilte fish for a lot less money. The instructions are long, but it is really easy to make once you get the hang of it.
Provided by Caryn Gale
Categories Tuna
Time 1h40m
Yield 8-10 slices
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Using the steel blade in food processor, grind onion and carrot.
- Add rest and pulse till nice uniform mush.
- It is best to put this in a container and refrigerate overnight.
- I can never be bothered and just proceed to the next step.
- It is a little harder to work with, but turns out the same in the end.
- Spread a large piece of baking paper on the counter.
- Place gefilte fish mixture in a loaf/log shape on baking paper.
- Fold top down and fold in each side till mixture is enclosed in a loaf like shape in baking paper.
- Since this mixture isn't quite as stiff as the real stuff and I don't want it to leak out of the baking paper, I actually staple the folded in sides.
- I then put the loaf in the freezer for at least 1 night.
- Boil 1 pot of water big enough to hold the loaf (needs to be wide enough and enough water to cover).
- Add broth ingredients to water and bring to a boil.
- Place the FROZEN loaf STILL in the baking paper into the boiling broth.
- Return to a boil and then let simmer about 1-1/2 hours.
- Remove carefully from the broth (I use 2 spatulas) and cool.
- Remove carrots and onion as well to container.
- Remove baking paper.
- Refrigerate at least 4 hours or overnight.
- Slice and serve with sliced carrot.
- Warning: when the loaf is boiling it does not have the best smell.
- Do not worry, it will taste great.
- Hint: I always double the recipe and just pull it out of the freezer to prepare when I want to.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 161.5, Fat 2.1, SaturatedFat 0.6, Cholesterol 79.3, Sodium 914.8, Carbohydrate 33, Fiber 1.4, Sugar 23.6, Protein 3.6
BAKED HERBED GEFILTE FISH
Steps:
- 1. Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- 2. Pour the olive oil into the bottom of a 9 x 5-inch loaf pan. Add the paprika, parsley, 1 pinch of the allspice, the salt, and pepper. Roll the frozen loaf in the oil and spices to coat. Remove the loaf from the pan, arrange the onion on the bottom of the pan, and place the loaf on top of the onion. Sprinkle with the garlic and the remaining 1 pinch allspice. Finish with a drizzle of olive oil. Bake, covered, for 2 hours.
- 3. Cool the gefilte fish completely, then place it in a resealable container and refrigerate it for at least 4 hours or overnight. Serve cold, sliced and topped with the onions.
GEFILTE FISH PATE
Begin your Passover dinner with this delicious gefilte fish pate recipe from Joan Nathan's "Jewish Cooking in America." Source: The Martha Stewart Show, April 2009
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Appetizers
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add onions and cook until translucent. Remove from heat and let cool.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine fish, cooled onions, eggs, water, matzah meal, salt, pepper, and sugar. Beat on medium speed for 15 minutes. Add grated carrots and mix until well combined.
- Transfer mixture to 12-cup bundt pan, smoothing top with a spatula. Place bundt pan in a larger baking dish and fill baking dish 2-inches high with water. Transfer to oven and bake for 1 hour. Cover bundt pan with parchment paper-lined foil and continue baking until center feels solid when a wooden skewer is inserted into the center, about 1 hour more.
- Remove bundt pan from oven and let stand 5 minutes. Invert onto a flat serving plate and refrigerate overnight. Slice and serve garnished with parsley.
Tips:
- Choose the freshest possible fish fillets for the best flavor and texture.
- Soak the matzo meal in water or broth for at least 15 minutes before using to soften it.
- Use a food processor or grinder to finely chop the fish and vegetables for a smooth texture.
- Season the fish mixture generously with salt, pepper, and other spices to taste.
- For a more flavorful loaf, add some grated onion, minced garlic, or chopped fresh herbs to the fish mixture.
- Poach the fish loaf in a flavorful broth or court-bouillon for a moist and tender result.
- Serve the fish loaf hot or cold, with your favorite sides such as horseradish sauce, lemon wedges, or dill.
Conclusion:
Gefilte fish is a classic Jewish dish that is often served during holidays and special occasions. It is a delicious and versatile dish that can be enjoyed by people of all ages. With its delicate flavor and tender texture, gefilte fish is a surefire crowd-pleaser. Whether you are a seasoned cook or a beginner, be sure to give this recipe a try. You won't be disappointed!
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