Chulant

[I LOVE CHULANT]

Hi, I just had chulant for the first time and I loved it and I want to make my own, can anybody post a good recipe for me? I'm buying a crockpot this weekend. Thank so much!!

[I love cholent too]

Here's a recipe for a medium-sized cholent.

2 onions -- 1 sliced, 1 cut in eighths
2 potatoes, peeled and cut in large cubes
1/2 cup mixed red and white beans (more if you want the cholent to be bigger)
1/2 cup mixture of barley and wheat (more if you want the cholent to be bigger)
1 large strip of beef flanken
2 tablespoons of paprika
1/2 tablespoon of salt
10 whole peppercorns
3 cloves of garlic, sliced thin

Put an oven cooking bag inside the crockpot -- it'll make a world of different to the cleanup (you may want to cut open the sides at the top of the bag to make it easier to put ingredients in).

Lay the slices of onion down on the bottom of the bag/crockpot. Put in half of the bean mixture and half of the barley/wheat mixture. Put the beef in the middle, and put the other onion and the potatoes around the meat. Paprika, salt, peppercorns and garlic go in next, and then the remainder of the beans and barley/wheat. Cover with water. If you have a kishke, you can lay that on top of the cholent.

In a crockpot, you should put this up either just before Shabbos or early in the morning (for halachic reasons, at the point when Shabbos starts the cholent should be either at least half cooked or totally uncooked; not in between).

[just me]

don't forget to add a kishke ...

also don't save any for after shabbos cause it turns into dog food ... RUFF !!! RUFF !!!

[Married_a_long_time]

[quote="just me"]also don't save any for after shabbos cause it turns into dog food ... RUFF !!! RUFF !!![/quote]

I find that it's davka quite tasty motsa"sh.

[random guy]

[quote="Married_a_long_time"][quote="just me"]also don't save any for after shabbos cause it turns into dog food ... RUFF !!! RUFF !!![/quote]

I find that it's davka quite tasty motsa"sh.[/quote]

And who exactly has place for it on Motzash? I guess it's one of the symptoms of being "Married_a_long_time".

A wise man once said, the difference between a bocher and a yungerman is that the bucher eats chulent Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, and the yungerman eats it Sundays, Mondays, and Tuesdays...

[didn't get it]

[quote="random guy"] wise man once said, the difference between a bocher and a yungerman is that the bucher eats chulent Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, and the yungerman eats it Sundays, Mondays, and Tuesdays...[/quote]
I didn't get it.

[Guest]

[quote="didn't get it"][quote="random guy"] wise man once said, the difference between a bocher and a yungerman is that the bucher eats chulent Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, and the yungerman eats it Sundays, Mondays, and Tuesdays...[/quote]
I didn't get it.[/quote]

Bucher = Single guy
yungerman = married man

Yeshivos and some restaurants serve chulent to single guys in the days leading up to Shabbos as a treat, i.e., it is as if the guys are looking forward so much to chulent on Shabbos that they can't wait.
Married men are served leftovers all week.

[random guy]

[quote="Guest"]
Bucher = Single guy
yungerman = married man

Yeshivos and some restaurants serve chulent to single guys in the days leading up to Shabbos as a treat, i.e., it is as if the guys are looking forward so much to chulent on Shabbos that they can't wait.
Married men are served leftovers all week.[/quote]

You explained it better that I would myself.

[Guest]

[quote="random guy"]You explained it better that I would myself.[/quote]

...or DID yourself. ;)

(The original post is dated Feb 26.)