Ingredients

  • Carrot Tsimmes
  • 2 bunches carrots, coarsely grated
  • 1/2 cup honey
  • 3 tablespoons flour
  • 1/4 cup water
  • 2 tablespoons oil, or chicken fat or butter, melted
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • Knaidel (optional)
  • 1 cup flour
  • pinch salt
  • 3 tablespoons water
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 cup oil or melted chicken fat or butter
  • 1 tablespoon sugar

Method

  • Cook carrots in water to barely cover about 20 minutes or till just barely tender. Add honey and cook another ten minutes or so till carrots are tender.
  • Combine salt, water, flour and fat and blend till smooth. Add to carrots and mix well.
  • For knaidel, combine all ingredients well. If using knaidel, place it in a mound in the center of 9x13 dish which has been greased well. Mush carrot mixture around knaidel. Can be made without knaidel. In either case, bake, covered, at 350 degrees for about 1 1/2 hours, or till liquid is absorbed and a glaze forms. Can be made a day ahead.