In a recent post, I mentioned a homemade granola recipe that I found on Aviva Allen’s website. She recently published a kosher organic cookbook with simple yet delicious recipes. She personally invented all of the recipes, and are made with wholesome, organic foods and grains. Something that is very useful which she added are little icons next to each recipe indicating if it is a vegan, gluten free, or passover friendly recipe. After Pesach, I plan on doing a full review of this cookbook, but in the meantime here is a sweet potato kugel that I made last night which is very good.

Something unique about this recipe is that there isn’t any regular, white sugar in the recipe at all, and I think it was the first time that I baked a sweet kugel without white sugar!

Yield: 12 servings

6 small sweet potatoes, grated
3 apples, peeled, cored, and grated
1 cup raisins
1 cup brown rice flour - on Passover use whole wheat matzo meal
2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 tsp. sea salt
1 and 1/2 cups water

Topping:
1 and 1/2 cups raw pecan halves, chopped
2 tbsps. maple syrup
pinch of salt
pinch of ground cinnamon

Directions:

1. Preheat oven of 375 degrees
2. In a large bowl, mix all ingredients together (except for the topping) then press into a large glass baking dish
3. In a small bowl, mix together topping ingredients and set aside
4. Place baking dishes in oven and bake it for 35 minutes. Remove and cover with topping mixture. Return to oven for another 20-25 minutes
5. Remove from oven and let stand for about 15 minutes
6. Cut into 12 squares and serve

Recipe from The Organic Kosher Cookbook by Aviva Allen, COPYRIGHT 2007 For more recipes, or to purchase a copy, visit: www.organickoshercookbook.com