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knish
Barbara Taranto’s potato knishes belong to an Ashkenazi Jewish family tradition carried through Canada’s Prairies.
About knish
Barbara Taranto’s potato knishes belong to an Ashkenazi Jewish family tradition carried through Canada’s Prairies. Each small pastry has a thin, golden wrapper around a smooth filling of potato and onion.
The potato provides a mellow, substantial centre, while browned onion adds sweetness and black pepper gives a little warmth. The thin pastry offers a firmer contrast to the soft filling.
The knishes have rounded sides and a small indentation on top. Their compact shape makes individual portions easy to share at a gathering, with the potato filling held inside each browned pastry.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Egg, Wheat (gluten).
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in knish
Barbara Taranto’s Canadian Prairie potato knishes.
- EggBinder
- WaterLiquid
- Vegetable oilCooking medium
- White vinegarSeasoning
- All-purpose wheat flourBase
- Kosher saltSeasoning
- Baking powderSeasoning
- Yukon Gold potatoesFilling
- Yellow onionFilling
- Ground black pepperSeasoning
- Oil for resting bowl, type unspecifiedCooking mediumIngredient page not linked
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Egg: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Egg source-confirmed. Literal52/74 dough; Egg positive.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Literal dough53/74 and potato-boiling78, same required food.
- Vegetable oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Literal54 dough, first filling option62 and assembly66/86/92; schmaltz alternative unselected. Botanical blend/product unknown.
- White vinegar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Literal55/74 white vinegar, type/feedstock unprovided; broad candidate only.
- All-purpose wheat flour: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat (gluten) source-confirmed. Actual56 explicitly all-purpose plus more for shaping84; same explicitly named wheat flour covers both. Exact supplier/enrichment unknown.
- Kosher salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual57/61 and dough/boiling/filling74/78/80.
- Baking powder: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Literal58 dough list; retained despite method74 not separately naming it.
- Yukon Gold potatoes: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Literal60/78, broad Potato candidate; no dairy mash.
- Yellow onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Literal63/80 browned filling onion.
- Ground black pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Literal64/80, actual form ground.
- Oil for resting bowl, type unspecified: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual76 lightly oiled bowl contact, no explicit oil type attached to this step; kept separate from listed Vegetable Oil rather than infer formulation.
Origins & food traditions
Canada association in the actual attributed source; no exclusive invention claim.
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.