Recipe - Lowfat Yonah Schimmel Knish Clone

6 md Russet potatoes
2 One half tablespoon Lowfat butter
One fourth Minced onion
3 tablespoon Fatfree chicken; (or
vegetable) broth
One half teaspoon Salt; or more to taste
1/8 teaspoon Ground black pepper; or more
to taste
Seasoning blends; chives or
pepper flakes to taste
(optional)
6 Sheets phyllo dough

1. Peel, halve and boil potatoes until tender, 1520 minutes. Mash in a
large bowl.

2. Saute onion in 1 One half tablespoons butter until translucent but not brown.
Add to mashed potatoes with broth, salt, pepper and spices. Stir well.

3. Melt remaining tablespoon of butter. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

4. Layer 3 sheets of phyllo dough and cut in half. Repeat with remaining 3
sheets. Spoon 1 cup of potato mixture on each section of phyllo, mold into
a large ball and position offcenter at one end of strip of dough. Roll
ball along the length of phyllo, folding dough over bottom of filling and
leaving some filling poking through the top. (Trim and discard excess
dough.)

5. Brush melted butter over edges of knish to seal the seams and pressdown
onto an ungreased baking sheet. Repeat with other knishes. Bake 3040
minutes, until golden brown. Makes four knishes.
(http://www.topsecretrecipes.com) Here's a recipe that comes from a
challenge issued by the New York Daily News. They wanted to find out if a
West Coast boy could duplicate the taste of an authentic New York City
knish. But, mind you, not just any knish. This knish comes from one of the
oldest knisheries in the Big Apple; a place which also takes pride in the
low fat content of its knishes, versus the popular deepfried variety. When
I tasted the famous Yonah Schimmel knish (the first knish I had ever
sampled), I realized that not only could a simple clone recipe be created,
but that the fat gram count could come in even lower. The Daily News even
went so far as to have a lab analyze the fat content of not only the
original knish and the clone, but also the fat grams in a street vendor
knish and a supermarket knish, just for comparison. The results are listed
below. If you'd like to check out the original article that ran in the
Daily News,

Per serving: 124 Calories; 1g Fat (9% calories from fat); 3g Protein; 25g
Carbohydrate; 0mg Cholesterol; 297mg Sodium

NOTES : Top secret recipes

Recipe by: Top Secret

Posted to EATLF Digest by BGL cyberfun@earthlink.net on Feb 4, 1998