Low Sodium Passover Dishes

[musicgal28]

All right everyone, as Passover begins to approach. My question to you, is what is your favorite low sodium passover dish? I always try to dilute my matzoh ball soup, but it doesn't work that well. So what are your tips or recipes!?

[Pink]

All right everyone, as Passover begins to approach. My question to you, is what is your favorite low sodium passover dish? I always try to dilute my matzoh ball soup, but it doesn't work that well. So what are your tips or recipes!?

No magic suggestions. I make the soup and I make it the same way I always make soup. I boil 2 chickens with lots of spices & low salt broth/water. If you use lots of other flavors you can cut the salt.

Here's a seder dinner story. When my FIL was a little boy, he wouldn't eat soup during Passover because he only liked chicken noodle soup. His grandmother devised a way to make passover noodles. She's make very thin crepes from egg. Then she's roll them up & slice them noodle-thin. She'd allow them to dry and put them in soup. The first time she did it, she told my FIL they would be having chicken "noodle" soup. He looked into the bowl and said, "That's not noodles, they're rubberbands." But they became a staple.

Fast forward. Bubbi dies long before my hubby was born but part of the Passover story was the rubber band story. But no one made them. Enter me, many years later. I hear the story for a few passovers (we dated since we were 18) and I thought, "this is ridiculous, all this talk and no action." Sooooo.....ever since then, I'm the rubberband maker and now my son finds it his favorite part of the meal. In fact, when I make chicken soup during the year, he'll ask me to make rubberbands. I refuse. I want to keep them special to the holiday.

Tradition!

[Alexkaboom]

Hey Rubberband lady... :)

I find that the stories we tell around the dinner table at holidays (over and over) is one of the best things about holiday time with our families... specially when they're about fond past memories...

Our stories involve "going to school uphill, in the snow, both ways" etc. Always funny and warming.

Highjack over... please continue with the recipes... I love those! :D

Alex

[SpinBob]

Hey Rubberband lady... :)

I find that the stories we tell around the dinner table at holidays (over and over) is one of the best things about holiday time with our families... specially when they're about fond past memories...

Our stories involve "going to school uphill, in the snow, both ways" etc. Always funny and warming.

Highjack over... please continue with the recipes... I love those! :D

AlexHijack pt.2

Alex,
My dad told those stories, and that's the school he walked to, but the snow was hip deep and he didn't have any boots.

End Hijack Pt. 2

[Pink]

Hijack pt.2

Alex,
My dad told those stories, and that's the school he walked to, but the snow was hip deep and he didn't have any boots.

End Hijack Pt. 2

Well at least he had legs...some had to drag their bodies both ways.:p

[JFK]

At least a few others are engaging in Passover insanity. We are "only" having 18 for 1st Seder (that's v. small for us, norm is 35+. Ack!)

We are doing 2nd Seder at the shul, thank goodness.

Anyhoo, taking a break from ferrying dishes up and down/to and from the basement . Yup, I'm one of those nuts with 2 dishwashers (1 meat, 1 dairy) and about 6 sets of dishes. :rolleyes:

As for low-sodium, I tend to cook pretty low-sodium the year-round. Is there a specific thing you'd like to make lower in salt? Otherwise, roast or broil your meats, avoid the soup mixes (insanely salty!). We also like to roast asparagus for Pesach and I'm making Passover "ice cream" out of frozen strawberries, lemon juice and sugar.

Have a wonderful Pesach, those who observe, and to those who don't, man, you are lucky! :wink:

[musicgal28]

I just find that after a week of Passover food, I'm bloated no matter what I do! I really enjoy the Matzoh Ball Soup from the box, because I have yet to find a plain chicken broth that is Passover friendly (any suggestions)... I usually get the whole wheat matzah, potato latke mixes and the soup. But none of Jewish cooking in general screams low sodium. So any ideas would be good ideas!

[billpierce]

I just find that after a week of Passover food, I'm bloated no matter what I do!

Your bloating may have nothing to do with sodium and everything to do with being bound from matzo.

I only make one Passover dish but my kids love it. It's fried matzo / matzo brie, but I make it kind of uniquely. The standard way of making it is by breaking the matzo into little bits, soaking it forever in water before bathing it in a milk and egg wash bath, and then serving it like an omelet. I break the matzo cake into 1/3 length strips, and just run it under the sink briefly. I then coat it in the milk and eggs before pan frying on one side. Then, I flip it like flapjacks and cook the other side. We finish it with a bit of cinnamon sugar and serve it more like french toast.

My Pesach will be starting 24 hours later than most this year. I have a marathon on Sunday morning, so I'm not attending a Seder and carbo loading on Saturday night. After the marathon, we're going to a seder on Sunday night (thankfully, I'll be able to recline) followed by a week of Pesadic food. Yummm.

[billpierce]

I made it, but probably lost over 5 pounds during the week and I don't have that much to spare. They say that one of the reasons we fast on Yom Kippur is to have an appreciation for the poor, who go to bed hungry at night. During Pesach, I felt for them as I literally went to bed hungry every night. I was also very bloated for the reason outlined above. I tried to get out of making fried matzo to avoid further bloating, but my kids insisted. I'm proud of the fact that all of my kids kept Pesach, including my son away at college. I rarely eat red meat, but I broke my Passover fast with a nice juicy hamburger on a bun with french fries last night.

[musicgal28]

I am soooo relieved its over and done with too! Every workout that I was doing, I felt a bonk coming on. I have a 10 mile race this upcoming weekend, and working out last week was just hard. My glycogen reserves kept feeling depleated. I was smart enough to buy Low Sodium Matzah, so I didn't feel like I was bloated! I did break it Saturday night though, I had a long run Sunday, and I needed that extra carb energy. Oh well..next year in Jerusalem as they say...

[JFK]

Ugh. I still haven't switched back all my dishes, we're in that post-Pesach limbo that I hate. I had to be in the lab at 6 a.m. today ,which meant leaving the house at 5. Then it was lab and classes all day 'til 8:30 when I went shopping since there was no (non Pesach) food in the house. Oy! :o

I'm so glad it's over. I use honey as a "gel" during the holiday, but it's not quite the same as having my Hammer gel on hand.

[SpinBob]

....I rarely eat red meat, but I broke my Passover fast with a nice juicy hamburger on a bun with french fries last night.We may have started a new family tradition, as we broke our Passover at White Castle...

[billpierce]

We may have started a new family tradition, as we broke our Passover at White Castle...

Bob -

I actually thought of that, since sliders would definitely have a counter effect on the matzo's binding. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. I still have to eat somewhat healthy and White Castle is just about the least healthy food a human can consume.