welcome back to Houston life Rosh
Hashanah also known as the Jewish New
Year is this Sunday so today we are
stirring up a very sweet dish and here
to share the traditional Jewish recipe
is rabbi Haim Lazarov welcome back to
the show thank you happy back here can
we say Happy New Year already yeah sure
before we say Happy New Year for a whole
month before actually really yes we wish
to each others will be inscribed and
written for a good year from a 30 days
before Rosh Hashanah and there's so much
tradition involved in this holiday I
understand it starts on Sunday evening
yes right and what is the official
translation Rosh Hashanah means the head
of the year the head of the year causes
the head of the cycle of the since the
creation of the world and each year we
celebrate the world's birthday and our
own birthdays and improving ourselves
and our souls and becoming better people
and it's really it's customary to eat a
piece of Apple that's dipped in honey to
sort of symbolize the beginning of a
sweet year ahead so we dip the Apple and
honey we also have other things which we
eat such as the pomegranate that are hot
are wise should be filled with seeds
which like the pomegranates filled with
seed with blessings and with good deeds
which we share with others and as well
as we also dip the hollow that we'll
take out of the oven but we'll also dip
in honey like we do at the traditional
holiday meal and that is what we are
making today I see that you brought in
all kinds of tools for us right and
we're gonna make it yes please okay get
on your gloves this in three stages
okay we're first going to activate the
yeast after we activate the yeast were
then going to mix in the flour okay I'm
gonna let it rise and we're gonna shape
the kalos and we're gonna do this all in
just a couple of minutes really you got
to get right exactly okay are you ready
we're ready okay for it let's go we're
first going to put in some the east yes
that's this go ahead what East I don't
see you measuring how much do I put in I
measured it before pre-measured I see
their five packets or five tablespoons
of yeast and we're putting in yes one
and three-quarter cups sugar and this is
a huge recipe that can feed your entire
family and everybody in your
neighborhood I'm on it to make five big
huge collars or forty small ones like we
have right here usually the call is made
of a greatest Allaah people are used
see right you and but we also have the
small collars here that are the small
ones but a little between all year
tonight we're gonna make today we're
gonna make the round collar okay okay
now we have hot water okay in order to
activate least not too hot and not too
cold lukewarm plus the way I like to
call like my personality warm we're
pouring it in and then we have to let it
sit okay but first before we let it say
you have to mix it up okay mix it a
little bit mix it a little bit okay oh
that's a lot of mixing no much no I'm
just afraid you're gonna swap it out my
dear Oh No okay I know here let it sit
okay now watch what happens it's now
gonna sit for the magical TV ten minutes
okay here we got our other Bowl and in
10 minutes your mixture will look like
this yes that's where it's activating
this is activated yeast many people have
never used yeast before I know can freak
you out but this is normal it's supposed
to be like this yes yeah and it looks
like first like water was just some
floating sand and then it becomes
looking like a dough and we're gonna add
to it our the rest of it and when I add
to it our flour now we don't want to
kill the yeast salt kills yeast okay and
so what we're gonna do is we're going to
pour in go ahead pouring the whole thing
the whole thing that's what this is the
easy recipe I always like to make it
easy when I come to you guys don't you
better do it at home because we're the
whole bag and anything complicated no
because I like easy and simple recipes
okay I'm wrapping it I'm gonna save a
little bit of flour for later so we have
for rolling out the dough okay okay and
now we're going to add the salt to the
flour and not to the yeast so we don't
kill the easier we don't kill thee that
will make it portal whole thing in
before that yeah I want to mix it up
like this and now we're going to need to
do want to give this talk on me to do it
okay like I'm mixing it all together all
the other but the whole thing really
fast already faster you'll kill the
yeast yeah so and the Jewish New Year we
make this collar in order to be able to
have our holiday meal which we come
together but that is only one part of
the holiday the other part of the
holiday is that on the Jewish New Year
we all go to synagogue and in synagogue
we hear the ram's horn the shofar and I
encourage everyone to go to your
synagogue to hear the shofar because
that is the central commandment and good
deed that we do on this holiday and can
I ask you
no you didn't okay would that be
acceptable for a non-jewish person to go
to synagogue and experience part of the
tradition there's nothing wrong with it
but it's not a commandment it's not a
mitzvah
it's not a good it's not the observance
of Rosh Hashanah in the hearing of the
shofar is specifically for the Jewish
people but it would be okay if other
people wanted to come in yes that's
correct
yeah okay cool yeah we looked at all
inclusive here at Houston life yes very
nice okay so it's getting a little tough
here but we're gonna get right this is
actually feel like it's a perfect dough
and then we're gonna let this dough rise
okay for an hour under a damp towel okay
or a Scylla foil and so here we're gonna
set it aside now okay for an hour okay
all right here goes
watch this magic interview Matt magic
and here we're gonna go when we gonna
bring out voila an hour later we have
our ready for an hour and this is gonna
make a beautiful large round kalos we
can make either six large ones or forty
small ones or three large ones and 20
small ones and you'll be able to feed
everybody I love that we got about a
minute left rabbi okay once the dough is
ready how are we shaping it or putting
it in pans to bake it yes yes we're
gonna we're going to take out about when
the shape doesn't - like about four or
five or six seconds we're gonna roll it
into a powder our hand with the flour
right we're gonna roll it into a rope
there we go
oh that's a lot of dough I'm gonna while
you roll you get the final product out
of our oven so we're good make sure that
we show everybody what the final product
looks like oh this is so beautiful it's
gorgeous and we're gonna make Colin you
can also put on toppings as we have
enough finished product we have the
crumble and we have the raisins
this looks so they're huge deal fall
there you go that's the youth cause
after we've shape it we let it rise for
another half an hour okay so here we go
we have our rope never rope and I'm
gonna show you now how you can roll this
into the round collar okay so if you're
gonna put in raisins you have to make
sure that you soak them and you line
them up
along your rope and you fold over the
rope and after you fold it over and you
roll it in again and you just wrap it
and you take it and you make it into a
round like this beautiful and you set it
on your tray thank you so much and happy
new year we she ate you coming by and
sharing the tradition with us and for
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