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!

A three-panel image featuring delicious Rosh Hashanah recipes. The first panel shows matzo ball soup with vegetables in a floral-patterned bowl. The second panel displays a close-up of challah bread with seeds. The third panel features a plated fish dish with garnish.

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 honeyfish (or ram) heads, and pomegranates, and sweet foods made with honey, such as carrot tsimmesteigelachhoney 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.

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