SAUCE:

• 2 1/2 Cups Orange Juice
• 1 Cup Water
• 3 Tabls Ketchup
• 1 Tabl Soy sauce
• 2 Tabls Brown sugar
• 1/2 Teas Salt

PATTIES:

• 2 Big Celery roots, peeled and shredded very fine
• 5 Carrots , Peeled and shredded very fine
• 5 Tabls Matzos Meal (You can prepare it even in Pessach.)
• 1 Egg + 1 egg white
• 1 Teas Salt
• Ground pepper
• Oil for frying

SAUCE: In a wide saucepan bring all ingredients to boil, Simmer, taste and put some more sugar if you want to. Cover and simmer on low heat.

PATTIES: In a bowl blend all the ingredients. (I use my hand to mix it well). Make the patties and fry them in a frying pan. Put on paper towel to absorb some of the oil. Transfer them into a saucepan with the sauce. Shake gently the pan so that all the patties will be covered with the sauce, Continue to simmer on low heat for another 35 minutes.

Cool completely before transferring into the serving dish. Keep in refrigerator. It is even better the day after. Serve cold, or at room temperature.

Try it and give me your comments please.

FROM RINA: This recipe is in my family more then 25 years. My mother loved to create all kind of new dishes. She and her best friend Fira, were always competitors. "Who is going to do the best dish of the week". Who were benefited out of that competing? We were. And now I think you too.

At this time of year we have very fresh carrots, and big fresh celery roots. Here in Raanana where I live, we are lucky to have just next door to our house a field where they grow carrots. So, one day I went with my grandchild to pick up some carrots straight from the field, (with permission of course). They were so fresh that I have decided to prepare for Friday dinner. Soup from Carrots, Tzimmes from carrots and prunes. Carrots Salad with raisins

Celery and Carrots Patties, and for a cake, Carrot cake. My son in law even to day, after so many years, when ever he sees a carrot in my kitchen he still make some fun of the Friday Carrot Dinner.