A classic potato knish

A knish is an Eastern European snack food popular in Jewish communities. A knish consists of a filling covered with dough that is either baked or fried. Knishes can be purchased from street vendors in urban areas with a large Jewish population, sometimes on a hot dog stand. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1024x768, 177 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Knish ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1024x768, 177 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Knish ... This article is about the continent. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination... Filling is a food mixture used to fill pastry, sandwiches and some other types of dishes, a process referred to as stuffing. ... Dough Dough is a paste made out of any cereals (grains) or leguminous crops by grinding with small amount of water. ... Baking is the technique of cooking food in an oven by dry heat applied evenly throughout the oven. ... The act of frying. ... A hotdog stand is a stand that sells hotdogs. ...

In the most traditional versions, the filling is made entirely of mashed potato, ground meat, sauerkraut, onions, kasha (buckwheat groats) or cheese. More modern varieties of fillings feature sweet potatoes, black beans, fruit, broccoli, tofu or spinach. Lamb chops with mashed potatoes This article is about the food. ... Sauerkraut and sausage on a plate Percentages are relative to US RDI values for adults. ... For the parody newspaper, see The Onion. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Cheese is a solid food made from the milk of cows, goats, sheep, and other mammals. ... Binomial name Ipomoea batatas Linnaeus, The sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) is a crop plant whose large, starchy, sweet-tasting tuberous roots are an important root vegetable. ... Black bean can mean: The black turtle bean, a small, black variety of the common bean especially popular in Latin American cuisine Douchi, a kind of fermented soybean especially popular in the cuisine of China The black gram Any black-colored variety of bean; beans which include black-colored varieties... Fruit stall in Barcelona, Spain. ... Broccoli is a plant of the Cabbage family, Brassicaceae (formerly Cruciferae). ... Tofu, also called doufu (often in Chinese recipes) or bean curd (literal translation), is a food of Chinese origin, made by coagulating soy milk, and then pressing the resulting curds into blocks. ... Binomial name Spinacia oleracea L. Percentages are relative to US RDI values for adults. ...

Many a culture has its own variation on baked or fried dough-covered snacks, including the Slavic pierogi, the Greek spanakopita, the Spanish and Latin American empanada, and the South Asian samosa. Slav, Slavic or Slavonic can refer to: Slavic peoples Slavic languages Slavic mythology Church Slavonic language Old Church Slavonic language Slav, a former Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip. ... Pierogi frying A plateful of Polish Pierogi Ruskie Pierogi are a kind of dumpling also known as perogi, perogy, piroghi, pirogi, or pyrohy. ... Wikibooks Cookbook has more about this subject: Spanakopita Spanakopita is a Greek spinach pie, made with pre-cooked spinach, phyllo pastry, butter, olive oil, feta cheese, green onions, egg, and seasoning. ... Peruvian empanadas In Spain, Portugal, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Philippines, an empanada (Portuguese empada) is essentially a stuffed pastry. ... A triangular Samosa A samosa is a common snack in South Asia. ...

Knishes may be round or square/rectangular. They may be entirely covered in dough or some of the filling may peek out of the top. Sizes range from those that can be eaten in a single bite hors d'oeuvre to sandwich-sized knishes that can serve as an entire meal. Hors dœuvre (or alternatively appetizer or starter) refer to the food served before or outside of (French: hors) the main dishes of a meal (the œuvre). ... An Italian sandwich. ...