No one is sure what tzimmes means, though it might come from the Yiddish word for meal. There's also a Yiddish saying, "Don't make such a tzimmes," meaning something like, "Calm down, already." Anyway, a tzimmes is stewed vegetables or sometimes stewed vegetables and fruit. Some people add meat. The dish is usually sweet.
Here's my recipe for carrot tzimmes.
Ingredients:
- About two pounds of carrots
- Little bit of salt
- 1/4 cup of honey
- Juice from half a lime
- 1/4 pound of unsalted butter
(1) Peel and slice the carrots. I use rainbow carrots, usually, because they're prettier, but regular carrots work just fine
(2) Put them in a pot with water to cover. Add the salt, and boil for about 12 minutes.
(3) Preheat the over to 350 F or 175 C.
(4) Drain carrots, stir in the honey and lime.
(5) Put them in an oven-proof pan. Add the stick of butter.
(6) Roast for about 20 minutes, or longer if you like.
I forgot to take a picture, but you know what carrots look like.
Here's a picture from Wikicommons, but it's a tzimmes with carrots, potatoes, and what look to me like prunes:
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