Sephardic Leeks With Tomato

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Leeks are 1 of the 7 symbolic foods blessed and served astatine a Sephardic Rosh Hashanah seder.

District nonmigratory Susan Barocas's father, whose parents were from the Ottoman Empire, grew up eating this dish. Although helium cooked rather a bit, inexplicably helium had ne'er made it for her oregon her siblings until it was introduced to them successful the aboriginal 1960s by a relative from Cuba. There was ne'er a written recipe, truthful this is Barocas's champion effort to re-create it. Serve arsenic portion of an appetizer assortment, mezze style, oregon arsenic a broadside crockery implicit rice, quinoa oregon pasta.

The look doubles easily.

The crockery tin beryllium refrigerated for a week to 10 days successful advance, and it tin beryllium frozen. It tastes adjacent amended aft the flavors person had a accidental to meld.

From Susan Barocas, manager of the Jewish Food Experience.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 10 Makes 2 1/2 cups

  • 4 ample leeks, trimmed
  • 4 to 6 overripe tomatoes (may substitute 28 ounces canned, no-salt-added full tomatoes positive their juices, kept separate)
  • Water (optional)
  • 1 to 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 2 to 4 cloves garlic, minced oregon crushed (see VARIATION)
  • Juice of 1 tiny lemon
  • Kosher salt
  • Freshly crushed achromatic pepper

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

  • Calories

    45

  • Fat

    2 g

  • Carbohydrates

    8 g

  • Sodium

    200 mg

  • Protein

    1 g

  • Fiber

    1 g

  • Sugar

    3 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Susan Barocas, manager of the Jewish Food Experience.

Tested by Amy Kim.

Published August 27, 2013

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Updated March 14, 2026

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