4 Dreidel Soup Spins

Chanukah is the perfect time to serve and cozy up with some hot delicious soups.

Add a “spin” to your soup by adding dreidel shape soup cutouts to your soup. You can try a different soup/crouton combination each night of Chanukah.

Cookie cutters aren’t just for cookie dough! We used them to cut out the dreidels from carrots, pastrami, pasta and bread. 

Pastrami Dreidels

You will need:

• Cooked pastrami (We had the deli cut the pastrami into ¼” slices.)
• Dreidel cookie cutters

Directions:

1. Cut dreidels out of pastrami.
2. Roast pastrami in the oven for a few minutes.
3. Add pastrami dreidels to a soup with a thicker consistency.

Toasted Cheesy Dreidels

You will need:

• Bread
• Cheese – Raclette or mild Cheddar, grated
• Dreidel cookie cutters

Directions:

1. Cut bread into dreidels with a cookie cutter.
2. Sprinkle with cheese and toast.
3. Add toasted dreidels to a soup with a thicker consistency.

Pasta Dreidel

You will need:

• Oven- ready lasagna
• Dreidel cookie cutters

Directions:

1. Place oven ready lasagna into a pan in a single layer.
2. Cover with water and bake till soft. Remove from oven, allow to cool.
3. Using a dreidel cookie cutter, cut out a dreidel. For best results don’t handle too much.

Carrot Dreidels

You will need:

• XL carrots
• Peeler
• Small dreidel cookie cutter or sharp knife

Directions:

1. Peel carrot.
2. Stand the carrot up tall on your cutting board.
3. Carefully cut the carrot into long strips, about 1/4″ thickness.
4. Cut dreidels out with a cookie cutter or cut into squares and cut off corners to shape out a dreidel.
5. Add the carrots in at the end of the cooking process so they don’t get too soft and mushy.
6. Works well in a thick  or a clear soup.

This article originally appeared in Family First

Photos by Leah Schuster