Gefilte fish

Gefilte fish is a ground fish recipe, popular with people of Jewish heritage. The fish is first deboned, often while still at the market. Next, the fish is ground into a fine paste and boiled with carrots and onions. It is often stuffed into a whole fish, giving it the name gefilte or "stuffed." It is often served with a horseradish and beet mixture, known as chrain. Gefilte fish can be either sweet (generally among Jews of German and Austro-Hungarian descent) or seasoned with salt and pepper (common among Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian Jews). Traditionally, cheap fish such as carp were used to make gefilte fish, but more recently other fish with white flesh have been used, and there is even a pink variation using salmon.\n