New Products and Recipes in Time For The Jewish New Year

This New Year Treat Your Guests to New & Delicious Recipes

SECAUCUS, NJ (August 2010) With Rosh Hashanah around the corner, the house is sure to be filled with loved ones.  Start the New Year off right with a meal they won’t forget. Best of all, these recipes are so simple to make and thus allowing you to spend less time in the kitchen and more time with your guests.

Manischewitz provides a range of recipes to suit everyone’s taste buds while incorporating ingredients that are traditional kosher staples.  With delicious recipes such as the Grilled Mahi Mahi made with the new Manischewitz Vegetable Broth and Sweet Potato Ravioli made with the Manischewitz All-Natural Beef Broth and Kosher Salt- the whole family is sure to be impressed.

Also, remember that Manischewitz has new all-natural ready-to-serve soups in addition to the existing all-natural line of ready to serve broths. The new vegetable broth and the pre-existing line are now available in a larger, reusable 32 oz. version, perfect for using larger recipes for big crowds.  Other items, such as their preservative-free course flake Kosher salt is a key ingredient to have on hand as it can be used in almost any recipe.

Try these delicious Rosh Hashanah inspired recipes below and also visit our website-www.manischewitz.com for additional recipes including main dishes, appetizers, sides and more.

Grilled Mahi Mahi with Vinegar Spiked Vegetables

Cooking Time: 45 min

Ingredients

3/4 cup baby carrots

3/4 cup leeks, chopped (rinse well)

3/4 cup rutabaga, chopped

3/4 cup green bell pepper, sliced

28 oz (2 cans) Manischewitz® Vegetable Broth

1/2 teaspoon ginger, minced

1/2 teaspoon garlic, minced

1/4 cup rice wine vinegar

1/2 teaspoon granulated sugar

6 (6oz) Mahi Mahi filets

Manischewitz® Kosher salt, to taste

Cracked black pepper, to taste

6 onions

3 cups cooked rice

2 tablespoons parsley

Preparation:

1.       Marinate vegetables in 2 oz vegetable broth, ginger, garlic, vinegar and sugar for 30 minutes.

2.       Season Mahi Mahi with salt and pepper; grill on both sides until flaky.

3.       For each onion, cut 1 inch slice off the top and a thin slice off the bottom so it will sit flat, discard the slices. Peel the onions and with a melon baller scoop out the inside of each onion, leaving the outer 2 layers. Char onion cups on grill and fill with cooked rice.

4.       Heat remaining vegetable broth; add marinated vegetables and cook for 15 minutes or until vegetables are tender; add Mahi Mahi; garnish with parsley.

5.       Serve with rice filled onion cups.

SWEET POTATO RAVIOLI WITH LIGHT CREAMY SAUCE

Cooking Time:  30 min

Ingredients
2 tablespoons Manischewitz® Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1 spanish or white onion, diced
5 cooked sweet potatoes, skinned and mashed coarsely
1 teaspoon cumin
¼ teaspoon curry powder
¼ teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground allspice
1 teaspoon fresh garlic, minced
Manischewitz Kosher salt and fresh ground pepper to taste

1 package of pre-made frozen ravioli rounds or wonton wrappers
Small cup of warm water
corn starch

2 tablespoons pareve margarine
2 tablespoons flour
1 cup Manischewitz® Beef Broth
1/3 cup non-dairy whipped topping
Pinch of kosher salt
Pinch of white pepper
2 tablespoons dry white wine (optional)
Fresh parsley for garnish

To make ravioli:
In a large frying pan on a med-low heat, sauté the onions in olive oil until they turn translucent. Add the mashed sweet potatoes, cumin, curry, allspice, garlic, salt and pepper to the onions. Mix well and allow to sauté for an additional 3-5 minutes. Set aside potato mixture and let cool to room temperature.

Bring 4 cups of water to a boil in a small soup pot; add desired amount of salt. While you wait for the water to boil, sprinkle counter with a little corn starch and lay out the ravioli rounds. Gently dab the perimeter of the ravioli with some warm water (this acts like a glue) and drop a spoonful of the sweet potato mixture in the center of the dough. Fold closed and pinch the ends of the ravioli to secure. Drop ravioli into the boiling water and cook until they float to the top, about 4-5 minutes. Scoop out with slotted spoon and keep warm on a plate.

To make creamy sauce:
Melt margarine in a saucepan over medium heat. Add flour and stir until mixture is well blended. Gradually stir in beef broth and non-dairy whipped topping. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until sauce begins to boil and thickens. If using optional wine, add now. Simmer, stirring frequently, over very low heat for 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

To Serve:
Drizzle creamy sauce over sweet potato ravioli and garnish with fresh parsley.

*Recipe images are available upon request. Please contact Elena Magg at 973.744.0707 or Elena.Magg@bhgpr.com.

*For more recipes and information log on to www.Manischewitz.com.

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New Products for the New Year

Manischewitz® Offers an Array of New Products to Celebrate Rosh Hashanah

SECAUCUS, NJ (August 2010) –Manischewitz offers a whole new line of product offerings that are sure to bring you and your family together at the table this Rosh Hashanah. With entertaining essentials like Tam Tams- that have no trans fats and offer 20 percent more product in the packaging for the same low price- and the new All-Natural Vegetable Broth, preparing meals for large Rosh Hashanah gatherings will be a cinch.

Other newly introduced products like All-Natural Ready-To-Serve Soups and All-Natural, low sodium Roasted & Peeled Chestnuts from the Season® brand are also great to have on hand for those colder days when you need some comfort food to warm you up.

New Products:

New Manischewitz All-Natural Vegetable Broth
Manischewitz launches an all-natural vegetable broth that contains no MSG and is fat-free, making it an ideal staple for the pantry.  In addition to the new vegetable broth, all of the Manischewitz’ broths come in a 14 oz size and the newly added 32 oz size.  This great new product joins the other line Manischewitz broths which include: Chicken, Beef and Low-Sodium Chicken.  The broths have multiple uses outside of soups and can be used for a number of recipes for your Rosh Hashanah menu. 14 oz- $1.79, Aseptic broth – $3.49

New Manischewitz All Natural Ready-to-Serve Soups
Manischewitz expands its line of ready to serve soups.  The 14 oz. soups are available in five flavors, which are Matzo Ball & Chicken Soup, Matzo Ball & Chicken Soup Reduced Sodium, Chicken Noodle Soup, Chicken Noodle Soup Reduced Sodium and Chicken Soup & Rice.  All of the soups are all-natural, and taste so good you would think your grandma made it. Available in the 14 oz. size with a suggested retail price of $2.79.

New Season  Roasted and Peeled Whole Chestnuts
The company adds Season® Roasted & Peeled Whole Chestnuts- an all-natural, low sodium product  that works great in all sorts of uses like preparing holiday recipes such as stuffing and etc. Available in a 5.2 oz. size with a suggested retail price of $2.49.

More Tams Tams!

With Tam Tams, bigger is better.  Now Tam Tams are even better for you with no trans fats and offer 20 percent more product for the same price. The crowd-pleasing crackers expanded their line of snack crackers to a bigger 9.6 oz packaging.  So whether you put out your favorite dip, you and your guests can enjoy snacking just a little while longer. Flavors include: Original, Garlic, Unsalted, Onion and Everything, and now Sesame. The 9.6 oz. size is available with a suggested retail price of $3.69.

*For a full list of products log on to www.Manischewitz.com.

*High resolution images and product samples are available upon request. Please contact Elena Magg at 973.744.0707 or Elena.Magg@bhgpr.com.

About The Manischewitz Company

The Manischewitz Company is a specialty food company that includes the Manischewitz brand^®, Season^®, Guiltless Gourmet^®, Asian Harvest^®, Rokeach^®, Mishpacha^®, Horowitz Margareten^®, Jason^®, Mother’s^®, Carmel^®, Croyden House^®, Mrs. Adler’s^® and Goodman’s^® brands.  The company offers a diversified line of premium kosher food products that covers over 60 different categories.

The Manischewitz® brand was founded in a small bakery built to make Passover matzo in 1888 by Rabbi Dov Behr Manischewitz in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1932, Rabbi Manischewitz opened a plant in Jersey City, NJ, replacing the operation in Cincinnati.  This move paved the way for the introduction of new products like Tam Tam^® Crackers, Chicken Soup, Noodles and Gefilte Fish.

The Season® brand was the inspiration of Issac Epstein, a Polish immigrant who started his career as a food merchant selling specialty products to grocery stores in New York and New Jersey over 80 years ago. In the 50′s, as the brand’s reputation as a diversified line of high quality, canned seafood, specialty vegetable and Asian products grew, so did the business, with Season becoming a household staple in cities like, Miami, Chicago and Los Angeles. Today, Season products can be found on supermarket shelves all across the United States, as well as in countries as close as Canada and as far away as Israel.