My husband is an Argentina Jew and he loves a certain Jewish pasta dish his grandmother makes. It is a pressed/dried pasta called "farfalej...

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My husband is an Argentina Jew and he loves a certain Jewish pasta dish his grandmother makes.  It is a pressed/dried pasta called "farfalej."  It is not boiled, but sauteed with onion and then you add water/broth.  When I tried to find it here I cannot figure out the name in English. Any ideas??

Ana S. · Answer

I did not find it here in Dublin either, but the recipe is 1 kg of flour with one spoon of salt and 3 eggs, you mix it altogether and once ready you put it through a big grater!!! and that's it, you have the home-made ones.

pierino · Answer

"Farfel" was also the name of a canine puppet character on the Milton Berle show (I'm not making this up). You could substitute israeli couscous.

phyllis · Answer

Yes, it is farfel.  My grandmother used to cook this for us all the time just as the question-asker described.  Hmm.  It's been decades since I ate it.  Time for a new side dish.

KLL5 · Answer

Yes, that is exactly it.  That soup recipe looks amazing too.  Thank you!

Merrill S. · Answer

I think it's just called farfel here. And I believe it's the same thing as "egg barley," which I actually wrote a blog post about several months ago: http://www.food52.com/blog...

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