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Several delicious knish recipes for potato, chicken, beef and turkey sausage knishes.

Ingredients:

• ½ cup flour
  2 tablespoons vegetable oil
  3 tablespoons water
  Pinch of salt

Directions:

• Put half the flour into a mixing bowl and stir in oil with a fork.
  Add water and salt and mix until the mixture forms a dough.
  Toss on a floured board; work in remaining flour, and knead until the dough is smooth and elastic.
  Cover and chill for 1 hour or longer.
  Roll the dough out on a board as thin as possible.
  Pull and stretch it into a long rectangle.
  Cut into 3-inch circles. Put a tablespoon of filling, below, on each circle.

Draw the edges of the circle together over filling and pinch together to seal uncooked knish.
Brush with vegetable oil.

• Bake on a greased baking sheet at 350º F for about 45 minutes, until dough is well browned.

• Potato Knish Filling
  Mash 5 freshly boiled potatoes and mix with 1/3-cup ground crisp cracklings made with chicken skin. (gribines)

• Chicken Knish Filling
  Crumble 2 matzos and soak until soft in 1/4-cup chicken gravy or chicken soup. Combine with 1 cup finely chopped chicken. Season well with salt, pepper and cayenne and add enough chicken fat to make a soft mixture.

• Mexican Knish Filling
  In a 2-quart saucepan, boil 1 quart of water.
  Add 1 pound of stewing beef, cover and cook for 2 hours on a low heat.
  In the last hour, add 1 package of burrito seasoning mix.
  Drain the meat in a colander.
  Shred the meat with a fork
  Squeeze out as much water as possible from the meat.
  Finely dice one medium tomato.
  Finely chop 2 Tablespoons of pickled jalapeno slices (mild or spicy…your choice)
  In a food processor, finely chop one small onion
  Mix together the shredded beef, tomatoes, chopped jalapenos and onion.
  Add salt and pepper to taste.

• Italian Knish Filling
  Finely chop 2 Tablespoons of Italian flat-leaf parsley
  Finely mince 3 garlic cloves.
  Remove the casings from 1 pound of Italian turkey sausage.
  Crumble and brown the meat in a little olive oil.
  Stir in 3 Tablespoons of your favorite Italian pasta sauce.
  Add the parsley and the garlic and cook for 2 minutes.
  Add 1 ½ Tablespoons of seasoned bread crumbs and stir.
  Add salt and pepper to taste.

Also of interest: Falafel Recipe, Potato Latkes, Chopped Liver, Kugel, Pierogies Recipe

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