Rosh Hashanah Recipes

This is a tasty cake that stores well and is quite easy to make.

'If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed', ye shall make and enjoy this simple, tangy, delicious grilled chicken dish!

Absolutely delicious. I have a two pound bread machine and use it to make the Challah dough. It freezes well.

Very moist spicy sweet cake with chunks of tender apples and raisins.

Tangy, fruity chicken made in just 3 easy steps! It's great served with rice.

A roasted eggplant dip or spread. Delicious served with pita or vegetables, alongside hummus or on its own!

Carrots are sliced into coins and eaten as a symbol of prosperity and good luck in the Jewish New Year.

This is a honey glaze with a kick. Great for BBQing and getting great color on chicken. Serve the extra sauce for dipping.

These slightly sweet honey potatoes are perfect with most entrees.

Just a plain and simple applesauce to serve with latkes.

Mild flavored, flaky fish fillets. Any number of different types of fish will work, and you can increase the recipe easily. Try halibut, cod, salmon, red snapper, trout, etc. Serve with a white and wild rice blend.

My mother makes a GREAT beef brisket. She got the recipe after watching a friend's Jewish grandmother make it. It is perfect, delicious and easily kosher for Passover. Enjoy! Great with mashed potatoes or potato latkes (latkes with this meal are also kosher) or roasted vegetables (with olive oil, salt and pepper - also kosher). Mazel Tov!

Spiced fragrant honey cake is a tradition on Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year, which generally falls in September). Unfortunately, most honey cakes turn out to be dry, brick-like things, inedible except with a hot beverage. Some call honey cake the fruitcake of the Jewish people. BUT NOT THIS ONE! This cake is genuinely moist and yummy. It will serve about 12 guests at a holiday meal, but I promise that your family will chisel away at it until it's gone before the morning comes.

This is an easy-to-make recipe, and it tastes great. It's a simple cake made from scratch, flavored with honey and orange.

Every Shabbat my mother-in-law makes this fish. I've modified it since the fish she uses in Israel isn't available in the Midwest. When you smell this fish cooking, you know it's Shabbat! Serve this with lots of Challah to soak up the yummy juice!

The marinade for this honey chicken is flavored with curry and paprika.

A family recipe for preparing delicious grape leaves, or yeb'r't in Arabic.

My version of an old favorite Ashkenazi Jewish recipe. I make a stock first, then make the soup. This allows for de-fatting for a healthier soup, but you need to make this on two days, so time accordingly. For a healthier version, use sucralose instead of sugar - there is virtually no taste difference in sweet and sour recipes such as this one. Using Savoy cabbage gives the soup superlative texture and flavor.

Kibbeh is a wonderful dish from the Middle East traditionally made with lamb meat but beef is acceptable, too. I prefer it made into patties and fried in olive oil. However, it is most often found in restaurants in baked form. Serve kibbeh with tahini, a sesame seed paste.

This is an East Indian sweet tamarind chutney.

We live in Saudi Arabia in a close-knit community full of different cultures, and our neighbors from Pakistan have become like our extended family away from home. Kokub, one of our neighbors, makes the most amazing mango chutney. A few years ago she invited me to help her. Of course, she doesn't use a recipe, so the NEXT time I went over with my measuring cups and scale so I could recreate her magic on my own. What an incredible experience!

A carrot souffle as good as your favorite restaurant makes!

A nice no-added-sugar apple cake sweetened with fruit juice.

A simple yet elegant chicken dish, stir fried with carrots, celery and an orange honey sauce. This recipe is from The WEBB Cooks, articles and recipes by Robyn Webb, courtesy of the American Diabetes Association. Preparation time: 20 minutes