3,601 soeur recipes

Kreplach with four filling options: chicken, chicken liver with schmaltz, seasoned ground beef, or cottage cheese. Homemade Jewish dumplings for chicken noodle soup or served with sour cream.

Cajun black bean soup simmers dried beans with smoky ham hock, paprika, cayenne, chili powder, and cumin into a thick, half-puréed pot. Serve with Monterey Jack, sour cream, chives, or chopped egg.

Vintage molded gelatin salad with apple cider, diced apples, celery, and almonds suspended in lemon-spiked gelatin. Unmold onto lettuce and serve with whipped cream or sour cream.

Sicilian-style jumbo shrimp in a sweet-and-sour Marsala sauce with pine nuts, currants, capers, and fennel. A rustic Italian seafood main baked in an earthenware casserole.

Filipino lumpia packed with ground pork, shrimp, mushrooms, and crunchy water chestnuts, rolled tight and fried until golden and crisp. Served hot with a tangy sweet and sour dipping sauce.

Sun-dried butterflied kingfish fried until golden and crisp, served with a tangy Thai green mango salad dressed in fish sauce, lime, and palm sugar. Sour, salty, and crunchy in every bite.

Lone dao jiow is a Thai coconut-fermented soybean dipping sauce served warm with fresh cucumber, cabbage, and green beans. Salty, sour, sweet in every bite.

Santa Fe black bean cakes made from scratch with dried black beans, bacon, serrano chiles, ancho powder, and cumin. Pan-fried until crisp and served with sour cream and salsa.

Spicy Chinese eggplant stir-fry with Japanese eggplant, balsamic or Chinkiang vinegar, sugar, and red pepper flakes. Six-ingredient sweet, sour, and spicy vegetarian main over rice. Ready in 30 minutes.

This is a hearty sweet and sour meat soup that can be used as a main dish.

Deep-fried chicken in a ginger-brandy batter with a sweet and sour brown sugar-soy glaze, topped with chopped macadamia nuts. Hawaiian-inspired over rice.

Apple pierogi filling: grated fresh apples with cinnamon and sugar. Traditional Polish dessert pierogi served with sour cream, buttered crumbs, and a final cinnamon dust.

Fresh Thai cucumber pickle with rice vinegar, shallots, carrot, and hot chili in a sweet-sour dressing. A no-cook, 15-minute condiment that pairs perfectly with rice dishes.

This recipe was given to me by a friend who is an ex-patriot now living in Playa del Carmen on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. I serve this with yellow rice and grilled avocado halves.

Lon Tao Jiao: a Thai coconut milk and fermented bean sauce dip served with raw cucumber, cabbage, and green beans. A salty-sweet-sour Thai vegetable platter.

Beef beet borscht simmers brisket with whole beets, onions, garlic, and a sweet-sour balance of sugar and lemon juice. The traditional Eastern European Jewish soup, deeply ruby red and perfectly balanced.