10 Healthy Recipes for Passover and Easter

photo via Smitten Kitchen, mine never as pretty

As much as we like tradition, there's nothing wrong with poached wild salmon, roasted asparagus or sweet potatoes or other simple recipes. Make sure to balance out your holiday menus or bring one of the following to your gathering. Here’s a mishmosh of Passover and Easter inspo.

1. Gluten free “matzoh” ball
2. Asparagus Stuffed Eggs I use ghee or plain Greek yogurt
3. Skinny Matzo Brei- we like Yehuda brand Gluten Free/fiber enriched (wink wink)
4. Horseradish Brisket
5. Carrot Kugel (I use local honey not agave)
6. Homemade Sauerkraut
7. Zoodles (Zuchini Noodles), we love the Veggetti
8. Homemade, nastiness free, Peeps
9. Lauren’s Favorite Lamb Chop Recipe (use grass fed lamb available on Fresh Direct or at Citarella) 
10. Ina Garten Lemon Chicken- no recipe roundup complete without Ina.

What are your favorite Passover or Easter foods? Where will you be? What are you making or bringing? 
I actually made Cat Cora Lamb Chops (#9) last night

Let the Pounds Passover

While I was away, our adorable snack queen Joanna Li was doing her Passover homework.

Passover is almost here and we know it can be hard not to over-kugel or just over do it but team Foodtrainers has worked hard to find "the best of" for Passover to make sure you don’t end up looking like a matzo ball (not good).

For many, Passover problems start with matzo. We dare you to find a more constipating food anywhere. After weeks of matzo-testing, we found the most delicious and healthiest matzo. Yehuda's Gluten Free Matzo with FIBER (yes, you read correctly), is now available in the Foodtrainers’ shop. It has 120 calories and 3g fiber per square…our kind of “exodus”.

With our matzo mission complete, we embarked conquering the second Passover problem the matzo ball. We fell in love with the concept of a grain free "Matzo Cupcake,".  As, Jeff Nimoy whole pens the paleo Cooking Caveman blog said “this is a major milestone for Jewish Cavemen everywhere". It's a milestone for us all. We tweaked the recipe a bit but here it is…

Paleo Matzo Cupcake

Yields: 6 cupcakes

1 cup of almond flour


1/3 cup of arrowroot


3 tablespoon of olive oil


3 eggs


1/3 cup of water


1/4 cup parsley


1 tsp. Onion Powder 


1 tsp. Garlic Powder

Black Pepper to taste

 Preheat oven to 350F.

Combine all the ingredients together. 

Pour into lined muffin tins and fill about 3/4 of the way up.

Bake for 30 minutes or until tops of cupcakes feel firm and spongy.

 Pop into a bowl of soup and ta-da Matzo Ball Soup

Gefilte Fish- while some holiday foods (most holiday foods) are candidates for our Holiday Food Hall of Shame there are some diamonds in the celebratory rough. Gefilte fish is the Passover diamond. Don’t be a foodie wimp, gefilte fish is actually delicious and the leftovers are great on top of salads. We found one made with no fillers from the local The Gefilteria. It is available for delivery in the NYC and Philly area, and also stocked in several stores (Gourmet Garage, Murray's Cheese, Kosher Marketplace) around the city.

We had Non religious lent here is your non-religious Passover challenge- go wheat free for a week.

Have you gefilte-d? Are you a fan? What are your Passover problems? Do you look like a matzo ball?