Yom Kippur: Before and After

Eating Before and After the Fast

© Devorah Stone

Sep 14, 2006

While Jewish people don't eat on Yom Kippur there is plenty of eating both before and after the fast. Here are some ideas, recipes, and tips for an easy fast. Recipes

There is no more solemn day on the Jewish calendar than Yom Kippur It's a day of fasting and prayer in the synagogue. We ask God to forgive us and we forgive ourselves. On this day we are cleansed so we reframe from all earthly pleasures including food.

Yet before the fast, there is a big meal and after the fast is a time for family and friends at a joyful break fast.

Before:

The best foods to eat before the fast - are bland relatively with little spice and less salt but filling. Its best to eat a hearty meal but eat it slowly.

I base this recipe from my good friend Adele's one she's vegetarian but this works well with meat, especially ground lamb.

Shepherd's Pie

  • 2 tablespoons Olive Oil
  • 1 large Spanish Onion chopped
  • 1 tablespoon soup mix
  • 4 large Potatoes- Bisset or Yukon Gold or Baker
  • 1 teaspoon Salt
  • 1 teaspoon nutmeg
  • 3 teaspoons Potato starch
  • ½ teaspoon or to taste Worcestershire Sauce
  • 1 pound Ground lamb, beef or tofu ground beef
  • 1 cup peas
  • 2 Carrots diced
  • 1 teaspoon Dried mustard

    • Boil potatoes and carrots. Sauté onions in olive oil. Mash potatoes and half the onions. Make a gravy with olive oil, soup mix, potato starch and Worcestershire Sauce in a sauce pan. Mix ground meat or parve tofu ground beef with carrots and peas and dried mustard to taste. Put half the potatoes on the bottom then the sauce and tofu beef and then place the rest of the mashed potatoes on top. Take a fork and ride it over the potatoes.

    Put in the oven on 350 for around 40 minutes.

    Or try Zucchini Moussaka

    You can have this with a hearty

    Lamb stew

    Finish it off with Honey Cake

    Tips for fasting:

  • Make sure you eat well the night before.
  • Just before the fast I have a energy bar it helps.
  • Get out of the house. I spend the day in the synagogue with other people who are fasting that helps. But you could also spend the day outside in a park.
  • Take a break from the synagogue and go for a walk.
  • Some people say sleeping the afternoon helps but it never helped me.
  • If you are not well, pregnant or nursing see your doctor before fasting.

    • After

    Keep it simple stick to either food you can make fast, all ready prepared from the deli and/or prepared ahead. Serve tea and maybe soup. There is no meal people love more than the meal after the fast so whatever you make they will appreciate!

    It should be a light meal, diary, or vegetarian. Heavy food on an empty stomach isn't a good idea.

    Salads are a great idea, they're light and nutritious.

    Potato salad

    A baked Baked Spinach Omelette can hit the spot. Prepare ahead of time and heat up just before.

    My friend Adele always has lots of people over for the break the fast. Here's her Babaganoush - Eggplant recipe. She makes it a couple of days before.

    Babaganoush -

  • 1 whole eggplant
  • 2 crushed garlic cloves
  • ¼ cup tehina sauce
  • Juice of one lemon

    • Put whole eggplant on low burner - for about two hours - stay in the kitchen. When most of the moisture has left and it's shriveled up peel, add garlic tehina, juice of one lemon.

    For desert there is nothing better than apple pie

    Here are links to other Jewish Holiday Cooking:

    Jewish New Years

    Passover

    Hanukkah

    Holiday Index


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