Get Cooking with a Yummy Recipe for Purim

Written by Behrman House Staff, 27 of February, 2014

Have a delicious Purim celebration with this FREE hamantashen recipe created by Recipe Rachel, co-author of Get Cooking! A Jewish American Family Cookbook and Rockin' Mama Doni Celebration. 

Choose your dough and get ready to get creative with sour cherry lekvar filling. With these follow along instructions you will have filling for about 2 dozen hamantashen. 

For a salty-sweet flavor sprinkle a few grains of coarse salt over the filling before folding the dough around it!

Doni Zasloff Thomas, a.k.a. Mama Doni, is the lead-singer/songwriter of the Mama Doni Band, honored with a 2011 Parents' Choice (R) Award for their recent release, Shabbat Shaboom and winner of a Simcha Award for  "Inspiring Joy through Music" in competition with more than 100 bands from 15 different countries at the 2008 International Jewish Music Festival in Amsterdam. 

Rachel Harkham, a.k.a. Recipe Rachel, is a food writer, cooking teacher, chocolatier, and a mom. The recipes in Get Cooking! include her modern American reinterpretations of classic dishes, sure-fire kidpleasers, and New Jewish Cuisine with a worldly spin to please all sorts of palates. 

Order Get Cooking! now for a full year of celebration of Jewish food and culture packed with holiday activities, jokes, and rockin' tunes on a free CD from popular children's musician Mama Doni.

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