Matzah in the morning, as granola. Miriam shows you how.
I’m not a great fan of matzah meal- based food – always excepting our delicious matzah balls. Plain matzah, spread with cottage cheese or butter, makes unexciting but predictable Passover breakfasts. Since strawberries are in season, it’s easy to make strawberry jam from our recipe for topping a matzah, too.
But you get bored with that. How about some Passover granola? Lots of crunch and superfood fruit and nuts. The recipe is relatively low in fat and sugars. A Passover power breakfast.
Passover Granola
Source: The New Jewish Holiday Cookbook by Gloria Greene.
Yield: 8 cups
Ingredients:
5 cups matzah farfel or enough matzah, broken into very small pieces, to fill 5 cups.
1 cup slivered almonds
1 cup walnut pieces
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/3 cup cold-pressed oil
1/3 cup honey
2 tablespoons water
1-1/2 cup raisins
Optional: 2 tablespoons brown sugar.
Line a 10 by 15 inch jelly roll pan with baking parchment. Preheat oven to 350 F -180 C degrees.
Put the farfel, nuts and cinnamon into a large bowl and mix to combine.
Mix oil, honey and water and heat over medium heat for 2-3 minutes. Pour it over the farfel mixture. Mix again thoroughly. Taste. If you like it sweeter, add the optional brown sugar and mix again.
Spread the granola evenly in the prepared pan. Bake at 350 degrees for about 15-20 minutes, or until it dry. Remove it from the oven and while it is still warm, stir it in the pan to break it up. Allow to cool in the pan on a rack.
When granola is cool, mix in raisins. Store in an air tight container. It will stay fresh for a week or longer.
Enjoy!
More on Passover at Green Prophet:
- Passover and the Environment
- 10 Tips to Avoid Passover Food Waste
- 10 Tips for Greening Your Passover
Photo of matzah by Avital Pinnick via Flickr.
Miriam Kresh also writes a food blog.
Author: Miriam Kresh
Miriam Kresh is an American ex-pat living in Israel. Her love of Middle Eastern food evolved from close friendships with enthusiastic Moroccan, Tunisian and Turkish home cooks. She owns too many cookbooks and is always planning the next meal. Miriam can be reached at miriam (at) greenprophet (dot) com.
