Laniado Hospital launches gourmet meals for Passover

• Published date: 24 April 2024
• Author: JERUSALEM POST STAFF
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

The new menu, launched on the Passover Seder, features among among others, roast beef in wine sauce, confit carrots and mushrooms; lamb meatballs; spring chicken in date honey, garlic and various citrus, sweet potato cream, and roasted portobello mushrooms

The 51-year-old chef explained the duality of the challenge in creating the menu. First granting every dish the "touch" and "high standard" it deserved was especially difficult in the environment of a hospital where large kitchens are supposed to provide thousands of meals per day.

Creative ways of providing kosher meals for Passover

However, according to him "the real challenge" was that of the Kosher observations, "since the hospital adheres to a particularly strict and high level of kashrut during Passover, so I had to be extremely creative without compromising on visibility and above all on taste," he said.

He further noted that "Planning holiday meals, of such a magnitude and under the strictest kosher conditions, is a complete culinary journey and a professional challenge that I am glad I took on - I was able to produce dishes that respect tradition and, together with it, provide...