Dairy Omelette with Meat Pesto Sauce

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Question

Pesto sauce prepared in a meat food processor, with one of its components being spicy — garlic. Is it considered meat, or since the garlic was not prepared separately but together with other ingredients of the sauce and most of the sauce is not spicy, is it not considered spicy and not meat? And if it is meat, if it was mixed into a dairy omelette during frying, does the pan need to be koshered, and did the plate to which the omelette was transferred also become non-kosher? Thank you!

Answer

Shalom and blessings 

First, it is necessary to check if the food processor is indeed meat. If only raw meat was ground in it, it is not considered meat, and after washing it post-grinding, it is considered pareve. It is only considered meat if hot meat was ground in it, or raw meat with onions, garlic, etc. 

In the second stage, if it is indeed determined that the processor is meat, when the sauce was ground, the garlic became meat, and the rest of the sauce is pareve. Then, the amount of garlic compared to the rest of the dish in the pan must be checked. 

If there is 60 in the sauce and omelette against the garlic, the sauce is not considered meat but pareve. Both the pan and the omelette are kosher. 

If there is not 60 in the omelette with the sauce against the garlic, if the omelette itself contains milk, both the omelette and the pan are forbidden. 

If there is no milk in the omelette, it must be checked if the pan was dairy 'ben yomo' [meaning milk was fried there within 2 hours], then both the pan and the omelette are forbidden. If it is not 'ben yomo' from dairy absorption, the omelette is permitted, and the pan is forbidden. 

In the case where the pan is forbidden, if it is made of iron without coating, hagalah is effective for it. If it is coated with any coating, such as 'Teflon', 'marble', etc., it cannot be koshered and should be discarded. 

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