Categories: main course, not tried, soup
Ingredients
- For the Cholent:
- 1 large yellow onion, coarsely chopped
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 3 pounds flanken (bone-in short ribs) or stew meat
- 1 packet goodman's onion soup mix
- 2 potatoes (1 use 1 baking potato and 1 sweet potato)
- 1/3 cup each dried pinto beans, red kidney beans and navy beans
- 1/2 cup barley
- 1 5 ounce can tomato sauce, preferably Muirglen
- 1 beef bouillon cube, preferably Telma, dissolved in 2 cups hot water
- For the Kugel:
- 5 large eggs
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 large onion
- 2 1/4 cups (280 grams) all-purpose flour
- A generous pinch of fine sea salt
- freshly ground black pepper
Directions
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Assemble the cholent:
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Put the chopped onion into a 6 quart slow-cooker and cover with the olive oil.
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Turn the pot onto it’s lowest slowest setting (it’s 0 hour setting on mine.)
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Lay the meat on top of the onion, and cover evenly with the onion soup mix.
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Peel the potatoes, cut each one into eighths, and arrange them on top of the meat in a ring against the sides of the pot.
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Fill the center of the potato ring with the beans and the barley, and dump the can of tomato sauce on top.
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Pour in the water with the dissolved bouillon cube, then add water until the ingredients are just barely covered.
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Be sure to leave enough room at the top of the pot for the kugel.
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Do not stir.
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Cover the pot.
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Make the kugel:
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2 to 3 hours into cooking, once the cholent is quite hot, whisk together the eggs, oil and water in a large bowl.
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Coarsely grate in as much of the onion as you can without hurting your fingers, add the salt, a few grains of black pepper and stir.
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Add the flour, a little at a time and stir until a loose dough forms and pulls away from the sides of the bowl.
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Pour the kugel into the center of the cholent.
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It will spread some as it cooks.
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If you notice that your water level is low add some more.
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Cover, and cook for 18 to 24 hours.
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To serve, lift the kugel out of the pot and slice it into squares.
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Spoon the cholent with it’s juices into a large casserole dish and pile the kugel squares on top.