Main Meals

Tracy’s potato kugel

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10 October 2025
Easy
20 minutes
50 - 60 minutes

A kugel is basically a pudding (or if you live in Johannesburg, a Jewish woman who spends a lot of time and effort and money on looking good!) The potato kugel is a traditional Jewish dish and can be made gluten free by substituting flour with potato flour.
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Ingredients

Method
  • 6 medium potatoes peeled
  • 1/2 onion
  • 125 g flour
  • 2 t baking powder
  • 4 T schmaltz
  • 2 free-range eggs
  • 4 T syrup
  • ½ t ground white pepper
  • 1 t pink salt

Method

Ingredients

1. Preheat the oven to 200°C. Grate the potatoes and onion on the thick side of the grater, or use the grating attachment on a food processor.

2. Add all the other ingredients and mix thoroughly.

3. Bake in a large, greased ovenproof dish until golden brown. Start checking after 45 minutes, can bake up to 60 minutes.

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Production: Khanya Mzongwana

Photographer: Toby Murphy
Tracy Klass

Recipe by: Tracy Klass

Tracy Klass has reinvented herself roughly every 20 years with one constant: a deep love of cooking and feeding people. She’s been a marketing manager while raising three kids as a single mother, a stand-up comedian, and almost had a stage show when Covid hit. Once again, she pivoted, this time to launch A Taste of Klass, bringing traditional Ashkenazi Jewish cooking to modern tables. Today, Tracy runs A Taste of Klass full-time from her kitchen in Observatory in Cape Town, proving that it’s never too late to start again – especially when there’s something delicious at the end of it.

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