noun
- Small pockets of dough filled with meat, cheese, or potato, boiled or fried and served in soup or as a side dish; a Jewish food.
Usage: Also spelled kreplauch, kreplach, or krepl.; Yiddish origin; commonly served during Jewish holidays, especially Sukkot and Hanukkah.
Examples
- My grandmother made kreplech filled with ground beef for the holiday meal.
- The chicken soup was served with kreplech floating in it.
- Kreplech are traditionally eaten during Sukkot.
- She folded the dough carefully to make perfect kreplech.
- The recipe called for potato and onion filling for the kreplech.