Kasha varnishkes

Kashe varnishkes (sometimes Americanized as kasha varnishkas) is a traditional dish of the American-Jewish Ashkenazi community. It combines kasha (buckwheat groats) with noodles, typically farfalle (bow-tie pasta).

Kasha varnishkas

Buckwheat groats (gretshkes/greytshkelach or retshkes/reytshkelach in Yiddish) are prepared separately from, and then fried together with, lokshen (noodles) and tsvibelach (onions) in schmaltz (poultry fat). Sometimes briye (chicken or beef stock) is used in the preparation.[1]

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.[1]

The name and the dish varnishkes as a whole seems to be a Yiddish adaptation of the Ukrainian vareniki (varenyky, stuffed dumplings). Buckwheat came to Ukraine and became one of the most common fillings of Ukrainian dumplings. This dish was enhanced by emigrating Jews in the Ashkenazic manner.[2] A recipe from 1925 shows kashe-filled dumplings, rather than the simpler kashe with farfalle.[3] This 1925 recipe is indicative of the dish’s origins.

See also

References
  1. Herman, Stephen (March 28, 2010). "Kasha varnishkes from Haven's executive chef". The Sunday Paper. Retrieved 2010-04-20.
  2. Marks, Gil (17 November 2010). Encyclopedia of Jewish Food. ISBN 9780544186316.
  3. "Le Cordon Jew". May 22, 2008. Retrieved 2011-01-15.
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