Rosh Hashanah Recipes for a Delicious Feast
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These Rosh Hashanah recipes provide delicious ideas for planning a Jewish New Year feast. From traditional recipes featuring apples and honey, brisket, and more to the not-so-traditional ideas that are decidedly scrumptious!

Rosh Hashanah Food Traditions
Eating apples dipped in honey (or enjoying carrot tsimmes) is one the customs of Rosh Hashanah, symbolizing a sweet year to come. In Sephardic communities, many families hold a Rosh Hashanah seder with a series of symbolic foods. Others incorporate foods like pomegranates, dates, string beans, beets, pumpkins, leeks, and fish heads - symbolize a wish or blessing for prosperity and health in the coming year.
“The Rosh Hashanah dinner begins with Kiddush over kosher wine and sweet, round challah bread (often studded with raisins) dipped in honey. Rosh Hashanah cuisine traditionally includes symbolic foods such as apples dipped in honey, fish (or ram) heads, and pomegranates, and sweet foods made with honey, such as carrot tsimmes, teigelach, honey cake (lekach), and more.”
What is Rosh Hashanah
Rosh Hashanah is the celebration of the Jewish New Year. Traditionally, it is a day of prayer and a time to seek forgiveness from God and request a year of “peace, prosperity, and blessing.” It’s a joyous occasion celebrated with candle lighting in the evenings, festive meals featuring sweet treats (honey, apples, etc), and prayer services that include the sounding of the ram's horn (shofar).
You can read more about Rosh Hashanah on the chabad.org website.
Rosh Hashanah Recipes
Celebrate Rosh Hashanah with these delicious recipes! From traditional apple and honey dishes to unique ideas for a scrumptious feast.
Apple Honey Challah
"Fluffy sweet honey challah stuffed with apples. Recipe with braiding diagram instructions for a beautiful round challah."
Honey Whole Wheat Challah
"Using half whole wheat flour keeps this healthful alternative light and fluffy."
Chicken Matzo Ball Soup
This Matzo Ball Soup with Chicken is a simple chicken soup recipe made with matzo balls infused with ginger and parsley. It's soul warming, and utterly delicious! And truly, there's nothing in the world just like it.
Creamy Cauliflower Soup with Turmeric and Cumin
This Creamy Cauliflower Soup is a hearty and velvety soup flavored with warm spices of turmeric, cumin, and red pepper flakes. It's an incredibly delicious, bright, and vibrant soup ready in 15 to 20 minutes.
Molly Yeh's Apple Cider Brisket Recipe
"Flavored with apple cider and maple syrup, it embraces Rosh Hashanah food traditions and, best of all, can be enjoyed at any time of day."
Rosh Hashanah Fish Recipes
"While a fish head on the table might be considered off-putting, it is one of the most traditional symbols of the Jewish New Year, so this [Sea Bass} recipe serves double duty as delicious and symbolic."
Roasted Chicken with Lemon Orzo
Roast chicken is not only perfect for Sunday dinner — holiday or not — the leftovers are great for quick soups, sandwiches, and salads all week long
Instant Pot Georgian Pomegranate Chicken Recipe
"The Georgian Jewish community traditionally makes chicken cooked in pomegranate juice for Rosh Hashanah. It’s a perfect recipe for the High Holidays: sweet, tart, flavorful and eye-catching."
Tzimmes
"Tzimmes is a root vegetable side dish that's served on Jewish holidays and get-togethers. This recipe is made with carrots, golden raisins, orange juice, and honey. The carrots are sliced into coins as a symbol of prosperity and good luck on Rosh Hashana."
Zimmern Family Noodle Kugel
"A traditional casserole made with egg noodles or potatoes, kugel is a mainstay of the Jewish holiday menu. Studded with raisins and apricots, creamy and rich with cottage cheese and sour cream, my family’s noodle kugel is the best one around."
Sephardic Jeweled Rosh Hashanah Rice
"Perfect Rosh Hashanah Jeweled rice side dish - The rice is infused with fragrant spices, sweetened with dried apricots, figs and cherries with a nice crunch from pomegranates and pistachios."
Sephardic Eggplant Salad
"This festive Sephardic eggplant salad is almost more of a chunky dip than what we would traditionally call a salad."
Carrot Salad Recipe
"A staple salad in North African cuisine and perhaps one of the most common and loved harissa- carrot combinations."
Mediterranean Israeli Couscous (Pearl Couscous)
This Mediterranean Israeli Couscous is easy to serve as a warm side dish or chilled as a Mediterranean couscous salad. It’s filled with delicious and bright flavors and ingredients like Greek olives, fresh herbs, vegetables, feta, and toasted pine nuts.
Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Pomegranate Molasses
Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Walnuts & Pomegranate Molasses. Simple and delightful vegan side dish with tender roasted Brussels sprouts, pomegranate molasses, toasted walnuts, and pomegranate arils.
Easy Honey Cake
This naturally sweetened Honey Cake is an incredibly tender, melt-in-your-mouth dessert recipe you’ll love. It’s easy to make in a round cake pan and is irresistibly moist and delicious, making it perfect for Rosh Hashana.
Apple Tarte Tatin
This Apple Tarte Tatin is a delicious, French-inspired apple tart, baked in rich caramel sauce, that's perfect to serve during apple season, or anytime you're craving sweet baked apples with cinnamon and nutmeg.
Tayglach Recipe
"Tayglach is a traditional Ashkenazi dessert, whose name loosely translates to “little dough” in Yiddish. Made of enriched, eggy dough balls boiled in a honey syrup, tayglach is often served during Rosh Hashanah."
Easy Apple Spice Bundt Cake Recipe
Made with fresh apples and warm fall spices, it’s soft and tender with a stick to your fork moist crumb. And easy? Absolutely!

