It doesn’t matter if it is for personal reasons or if you are inviting over a guest who keeps up with a kosher diet, it is not that hard to prepare a kosher breakfast menu as long as you fully understand the diet guidelines and don’t forget to skip the pork sausage and bacon.
The kosher diet is a special type of religious diet that people of the Jewish faith follow. This diet limits the consumption of certain kinds of meat, like pork, and restricts the combination of dairy with kosher meat.
Basics of Kosher Diet
The kosher diet’s rules are derived from the Bible which divides foods into three main categories, namely dairy, meat, and pareve. As for Kosher meat, it consists of mammals with split hooves that chew their own cud, including cows, goats, and deer.
Kosher fowl are regarded as meat as well and include turkey, duck, and chicken. All dairy products are considered kosher but are not allowed to be served or prepared together with kosher meat. Pareve consists of all other foods like grains, eggs, fruits, vegetables, and fish with scales or fins, such as tuna or salmon.
Bagels and Lox
Sometimes called Jewish eggs Benedict, bagels and lox make the perfect kosher breakfast, particularly if you want a breakfast meal that you can prepare ahead and then serve in buffet style. For those who might be unfamiliar with lox, this is salmon cured in a salt-sugar brine served in thin slices.
To finish off the menu, add sliced tomatoes, cream cheese, chopped capers, and red onions. Your menu doesn’t have to be limited to just plain bagels because you can also add “everything bagels,” including sesame, whole-wheat, and poppy seed bagels to your breakfast spread.
Crepes with Fillings
Similar to bagels and lox, filled crepes can also be prepped in advance. You can put your precooked crepes inside the refrigerator for a maximum of three days. Just make sure you separate every crepe with a wax paper slice and wrap it tightly in foil.
You can reheat the crepes in the oven at 300 degrees Fahrenheit for 10 to 15 minutes before you serve them. You can offer various fillings such as sliced strawberries with whipped cream, warm blueberry compote, chocolate hazelnut spread, scrambled eggs with cheese, or ricotta cheese with spinach.
Crepes are traditionally made with milk although milk can be replaced with water. You can also serve savory meat fillings with your breakfast crepes like ground meat with onions or chicken and broccoli.
Any Style of Eggs
Eggs are pareve that you can serve with dairy or meat. For instance, you can prep a menu of scrambled eggs cooked without milk and then served together with turkey bacon, toast, hash browns, and chicken sausage. If you are using chicken sausage, be sure to refer to the label to confirm that it is kosher.
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