Sunday 11 March 2018

Tips For Preparing Quality Kosher Meals

By Carolyn Rogers


If you operate a restaurant, you need to come up with ways of increasing sales. While you sell food because you love it and want to share that goodness with others, you need to ensure you are not operating at a loss. Consider the community you are serving and ask yourself what kind of dishes will satisfy them. There could be enough people in the community need kosher meals.

Kosher dishes are like other everyday meals. While they are normal foods cooked in normal ways, they have been produced from the source following certain processes and procedures. To offer meals that are fully compliant, you must have a working knowledge of what kosher is and how it affects preparations of such items. This term has a religion-based origin, and it applies to all items categorized as suitable for consumption.

If you are serving a community that wants these kinds of meals, you will have to earn their trust. You want them to know you understand what kosher means and all the rules and regulations involved. You need to assure them that the food you are serving has been obtained under strict observance of all the religious rules applicable. You must have a thorough understanding of what is permitted and forbidden foods.

If your restaurant is serving meat to that community, be sure to follow all the applicable religious laws. Familiarize yourself with the specific requirements of the Torah, especially regarding what types of items are allowed or disallowed. The Torah expressly defines kosher flesh as that which has been produced by animals that chew the cud and have cloven hooves have been properly slaughtered. Mutton and beef are allowed.

If an animal does not have all the characteristics described above, the meat it produces will not be compliant. For example, a pig has split hooves, but the animal does not chew the cud. Likewise, a camel chews the cud, but the hooves are not split. In these two cases, the food is not fit for consumption for those who follow the law of the Torah.

Not every person who knows how to perform the slaughtering exercise can kill the animals that provide compliant products. The slaughtering procedure involves some rituals, and only a specialist who understands the process can perform the act. The Torah is against the careless killing of animals. When slaughtering, no unnecessary pain should ever be inflicted.

After slaughtering, the kosher specialist and his helpers handle the meat by removing unwanted fats and veins. After this process, the carcass remains soaked in water at room temperature for thirty minutes. To get all the blood out of the meat, it is coarse-salted for one hour on special salting tables.

If you are planning to serve other delicacies such as flesh from birds, understand what is and what is not allowed. Creatures such as the owl, eagle, swan, vulture, pelican, and the stork are not permissible. You ought to be serving turkey, chicken, goose, and the chicken. The young of the forbidden species and their eggs are disallowed.




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