Jewish traditional cuisine on the Jewish Calendar

Shabbat

• Challah
• Gefilte fish
• Chicken soup
• Lokshen (noodles)
• Baked or Roasted Chicken
• Chopped liver
• Kugel
• Cholent or Dafina
• Chamin
• Kishka

Rosh HaShanah Recipes

On the Jewish New Year, sweet foods are eaten, symbolizing hope for a sweet coming year

What is Rosh HaShanah?

• Round honey Challah
• Tzimmes and other dishes including carrots, a symbol of prosperity
• Teiglach
• Honey cake
• Apples and honey
• Fish, particularly the heads
• Pomegranates
• Tagine

Before the start of Yom Kippur

Yom Kippur is a a fast day

• Chicken soup
• Kreplach

After Yom Kippur

Break the Fast

• Honey cake

Sukkot

What is Sukkot?

• Boiled Tongue
• Chicken or Beef Couscous
• Holishkes

Hanukkah

It is customary to eat the following foods to celebrate Hannukkah.

• Latke
• Sufganiyot
• Cheesecake or other dairy foods

Purim

• Homentashn
• Kreplach
• Berkouks[6]
• Fazuelos

Passover

It is forbidden to eat chametz (leavened foodstuffs, such as yeast breads) during the holiday of Passover

• Matzo
• Matzo balls
• Matzah brei
• Matzo Farfel
• Compote, stewed dried fruits, typically including prunes as an aid to digesting matzo
• Spongecake
• Lamb
• Mufleta, immediately following Passover
• Passover Seder Plate
• Maror (Marror, Moror, Morror), bitter herbs - may be horseradish.
• Beitzah - hard-boiled or roasted egg.
• Karpas - usually celery, parsley, or lettuce.
• Salt water
• Z'roa - shankbone of a lamb.
• Charoset
• Chazeret

Shavuot

• Blintz
• Cheesecake
• Dairy foods in general
• Matza dipped in milk