posted by She 03-30-99 3:57 PM
Eight Vegetable Dumpling Stew ("The Passover Gourmet")
Serves 6-8
2 onions
2 carrots
2 red peppers
2 tomatoes
2 ribs celery
1 cup fresh mushrooms
1/3 cup oil
1 pkg. (10-oz.) frozen green beans
1 pkg. (10-oz.) frozen yellow beans
1 (6 oz.) can tomato paste
1 Tbl. sugar
1 tsp. salt
For the dumplings:
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups matzo meal
1 tsp. salt
1/3 cup water
6 Tbl. oil
Slice the onions, carrots, peppers, tomatoes, celery and mushrooms.
Heat the oil in a large heavy pot, add the vegetables and saute for ten minutes.
Add the frozen vegetables, tomato paste, salt and sugar with one cup of water. Cover and cook for twenty minutes.
Mix the dumpling ingredients and form small dumplings with wet hands.
Use a wooden spoon to make small wells into the vegetable stew and drop the dumplings in carefully.
Cover and cook for an additional twenty minutes.