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Now, these two culinary heavies — Rena Pushkarna, known as the Curry Queen of Israel, and Jeffrey Nathan, whose TV show “New Jewish Cuisine” airs in four countries, including Israel — are joining forces to create a line of kosher prepared foods that is expected to hit the New York market next month.

The frozen food line doesn’t have a permanent name yet, but Kedem Food Products (Nathan is Kedem’s chief executive chef) will wheel out four vegetarian dishes under the private label Tivi Valley as a test run: vegetable burgers and patties, and soy drumsticks and schnitzel. If they sell, expect East-West fusions like rice bowls, smoked chicken wings and soups to follow.

“Reena and her crew have some great ideas and concepts and we see that,” said Morty Herzog, CEO of Kedem. “The increase in the U.S. market on veggie products is tremendous. These days the average customer is reading nutritional labels, an unbelievable phenomenon. And in response to that … we want to be leading that trend.”

Pushkarna, who came to Israel 23 years ago, dreamed of bringing kosher Indian food to Israeli homes. People told her it couldn’t be done. But she developed a pareve nut mixture that could substitute for the customary yogurt sauce that is a staple of Indian meat dishes

Her vision is now being served piping hot. Pushkarna’s Company, Presko, has converted a 15,000-square meter facility at Kibbutz Eilon in the Western Galilee, five minutes from the Lebanese border, into a food factory. The factory produces imitation seafood, frozen soups, vegetarian products and ready-to-eat ethnic meals like Chinese Szechwan Chicken, Red Thai Tofu Curry, Mexican Chili Con Tofu, Lasagna Toscana and popular Israeli staples like Moroccan cigars and falafel. She distributes her kosher creations to all major supermarkets in Israel as well as a slew of international outlets in the U.S., Canada and France.

On a warm January morning, the two chefs are mixing it up at Pushkarna’s factory, munching their new fusion of East and West: Italian and Indian rice bowls. Nathan couldn’t resist instructing Pushkarna’s creative team — consisting mainly of her son Kunal and daughter Sarina — on the finer points of smoking buffalo chicken wings.

“We are taking foods that maybe Reena’s not that familiar with and using my expertise in that aspect,” said Nathan.

The goal, say the two, is to reinvent how the world sees frozen food.

“The frozen food category is increasing 10 to 12 percent a year,” Nathan said. “People are looking for high-quality frozen foods — most people are working several jobs and are not at home spending six hours in the kitchen cooking a day and doing the laundry. So in turn, prepared foods are now geared towards quality and convenience.”

A close friend’s mother is an Indian Jew from Bombay-so I have been exposed to Indian Jewish cooking-this is the real thing. The picture of Reena on the box has her with a dot on her forehead-which is not something I understand was customary for Indian Jews-at least the ‘Baghdadis’ (Jews from Iraq) whose customs I have been exposed to.