Best Cherry Kugel Recipes

CHERRY APPLE MATZOH KUGEL

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F.
• Grease a 9x13-inch pan.
• Beat eggs until light and fluffy.
• Break up matzos into small pieces. Pour boiling water over and drain well.
• Add sugar to eggs; beat again.
• Add matzo; beat again.
• Add melted butter if making this dish for a meat meal use margarine; fold in apples.
• Bake 1 hour.
• Spread preserves on top; bake an additional 10 minutes longer.
• If preparing this dish in advance, freeze the bottom without the preserves. Reheat, then add the preserves on top.
• The original recipe states that the serving size is 24. My family likes this so much it makes about 10 servings so I double it and make it in two separate pans.

CHERRY KUGEL

Steps:

• 1. Cook noodles till al dente and drain. Melt butter in a 10 x 12 inch glass baking dish in 350 degree oven till melted and pour off into noodles. Add the rest of the ingredients except pie filling. Mix well. Pour into baking dish and bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes. Remove from oven and cover with pie filling and bake another 30 minutes till hot and bubbly. Cut into wedges and serve either warm or room temperature.
• 2. Original recipe calls for just one can of cherry pie filling, but I like it with two cans.

APPLE-CHERRY MATZO KUGEL CUPS

Steps:

• Add hot water to matzo in medium bowl; stir. Let stand 15 min.
• Heat oven to 350°F. Beat 4 oz. cream cheese, eggs, sugar and cinnamon in large bowl with mixer until blended. Drain matzo; squeeze out excess water. Add matzo to cream cheese mixture; mix well. Stir in fruit.
• Spoon half the batter into 12 muffin pan cups sprayed with cooking spray. Cut remaining cream cheese into 12 pieces. Place 1 cream cheese piece in center of batter in each muffin cup; cover with remaining batter.
• Bake 20 to 25 min. or until edges are crisp and tops are lightly browned. Cool 15 min. before removing from pan to serve.

KUGEL (APPLE-CHERRY SUPREME)

Steps:

• Peel& core the apples.
• Cut the apples into quarters& then slice them into 1/4" slices& set aside.
• Cook the noodles in the milk, cream, wine& a 1/2 cup of the sugar until very soft (about 20 minutes).
• In a bowl, mix the eggs, egg yolks, sour cream& the remaining 1/4 cup of sugar together.
• After the noodles are slightly cooled& not piping hot, mix the egg mixture into the noodles with the heat off.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• In another bowl, whisk together the cornstarch, rum, vanilla& apple juice concentrate.
• In a sautè pan, melt the butter over high heat.
• When melted, reduce to medium heat.
• Add the brown sugar& then the apples.
• Arrange the apple slices so that they are not on top of each other& they are flat.
• Sautè for 1 minute& then add the rum& apple juice mixture.
• Cook until somewhat thickened& then stir in the cherries.
• In a 2 1/2 quart buttered (or sprayed with Pam) casserole, alternate the noodle mixture& the fruit mixture in 5 layers (3 noodle& 2 fruit) beginning& ending with noodle layers.
• Bake uncovered until the top begins to get brown, about 35 to 45 minutes.
• Serve topped with sour cream.

CHERRY GRANOLA KUGEL

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Spray 13 x 9 pan with cooking spray.
• After cooking and draining egg noodles, put noodles back in cooking pot over low heat.
• Mix in 1/2 cup of butter and cream cheese until melted.
• Beat eggs and milk together and pour into noodle mixture.
• Add cinnamon, cherries and cherry preserves.
• Pour into 13 x 9 pan.
• Mix together granola, butter and 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon.
• Sprinkle over noodles.
• Bake for 1 hour or until golden brown.

CHERRY KUGEL

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9×13 glass baking dish. Parboil the noodles (5 to 7 minutes) and drain them in a colander. In a very large bowl beat cream cheese until fluffy, add cottage cheese and beat for another minute. Scrape bowl down well. Add sugar and combine, then melted butter, and scrape down the bowl another time. Add the eggs one at a time, beating between additions. Add cinnamon, vanilla and mix, then stir in dried cherries. Finally, carefully mix in the drained egg noodles. Pour into prepared baking dish and bake for one hour before checking to see if the center is set. It may need up to 30 minutes more. (Yes, I know this range is crazy, but I've baked kugels that took either end of the range. They refuse to be predictable.)