55+ Best Recipes for Rosh Hashanah

Jews eat honey cake on Rosh Hashanah as a symbol of hope for a sweet year to come. This one is deliciously moist with an alluringly crisp edge.

Honey Cookies with cinnamon and orange zest are perfect for Rosh Hashanah! They're soft, chewy, and full of honey flavor!

I love to make this round Chocolate Orange Babka for Rosh Hashanah! It is the stuff dreams are made of. Rich, buttery brioche-like dough with swirling ribbons of orange-scented chocolate running through it make it perfect for a special holiday meal.

My Rosh Hashana menu always centers around this savory, spiced brisket braised with dried fruit. Appetizers, sides, and dessert fall into place around it.

Made like a traditional hummus, with white beans, garlic, and tahini, this bright spread is sweeter than the regular type, thanks to the addition of roasted beets.

This classic vegetarian chopped liver recipe uses hard-boiled eggs, onions, and walnuts to create a vegetarian version that tastes delicious!

This butternut squash latke recipe is so easy, you’ve got to let your kids make it. It’s simply grated butternut squash and onion, with eggs,
whole wheat flour, and a little salt. Then it’s baked in the oven for a healthy kid-friendly vegetable side dish. My son calls them his squash pancakes!

Fill a Boreka with meat and it becomes a pastelle or pastelico. These meat-filled borekas usually contain ground beef and onion, and often also include rice. This one has pinenuts for texture and parsley for color. This version veers from tradition by using store-bought puff pastry.

This simple beet salad is a perfect combination of earthy, sweet, tangy, tart, and spicy. The dressing includes our favorite Middle Eastern condiment--spicy hot Harissa.

Capers and dill pickles add tang to this beet salad.

Israeli Salad includes finely diced tomatoes and cucumbers, as well as hard-boiled eggs and feta cheese.

Crisp-tender green beans and radishes are tossed with a bright whole-grain Dijon mustard dressing and topped with shaved ricotta salata (or feta or goat cheese).

This fresh and colorful salad includes many of the important simanim (signs or symbols) of Rosh Hashanah: Apples, pumpkin (seeds), pomegranate, and honey.

This Roasted Butternut Squash Kale Salad is topped with honey roasted cranberries and crispy seasoned chickpeas.

These apple and blue cheese polenta bites are a fun appetizer.

Roasting brings out the sweetness and flavor of these Brussels sprouts, and gives the garbanzos an unusual crispy crunch.

These air fryer beets make an easy and delicious vegan side dish.

Carrots, apples, and sweet potatoes are roasted in warming fall spices like nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger, and cloves, and then drizzled with a slightly sweet, nutty cinnamon tahini sauce.

The sweetness of beets combined with the tang and creaminess of a balsamic tahini is a perfect match.

Cinnamon infused pomegranate saffron rice is a delicate balance of exotic flavors that turns a simple bowl of rice into an aromatic and enticing side dish.

Delicate pumpkin gnocchi are flavored with just a hint of nutmeg.

If you're looking for an unusual side that is vegan, gluten-free, and nut-free, try these chickpea ravioli stuffed with sauerkraut topped with applesauce!

This easy Instant Pot soup is creamy, nutritious, and a perfect way to ring in the New Year.

This creamy sweet pumpkin soup is spiked with ginger and topped with caramelized chestnuts and toasted pecans.

This creamy pumpkin soup is more savory than sweet.

This silky vegan butternut soup is topped with spicy roasted chickpeas for extra flavor.

This vegan pumpkin curry makes a great vegetarian main course for Rosh Hashanah.

This cast-iron skillet-cooked chicken dish combines spicy, tangy sriracha sauce with sweet honey in an addictive glaze.

This chicken roasting method turns out the most perfect, cripsy-skinned, juicy and moist chicken you've ever had.

Using your air fryer to cook a whole chicken turns out a bird with shatteringly crisp skin meat that is almost impossibly succulent and flavorful.

Chicken and rice is baked with horseradish, onions, and apples.

Jewish stuffed cabbage is filled with a sweet-and-sour mix of ground beef, rice, raisins, and other ingredients.

Traditional style sweet and sour stuffed cabbage that cooks in less than an hour.

This roast brisket with carrots and hasselback potatoes is a satisfying meal.

This Jewish brisket recipe is everything — it’s tender, falls apart, it’s loaded with flavor, and free of junk ingredients.

This juicy beef brisket recipe is the most tender brisket you will ever taste. It's basted in sweet barbecue sauce and currant jelly, just like the traditional brisket recipe that your grandmother used to make, only better! 

The pressure cooker makes it quick to cook traditional brisket.

Pressure cooker brisket in tomato sauce.

Use the Instant Pot to make the most tender and juicy leg of lamb ever!

No Rosh Hashanah meal is complete without a gorgeous round of homemade challah!

Delicious light and airy round challah is served on Rosh Hashanah to symbolize the cycle of life.

Beet buns are an interesting--and colorful--alternative to challah.

Thinly sliced apples are shaped into roses in this elegant apple pie.

This recipe combines all the flavors of apple pie recipe with a delicious babka.

Try this delicious twist on an apple-and-honey cake!

This upside down apple-and-honey cake is sticky sweet and gluten- and dairy-free!

Here's another gluten-free twist on a classic Jewish dessert. This kugel uses thinly sliced apples and a coconut flour-based batter.

The picture says it all here--sweet apples, crumbly streusel topping, and rich caramel drizzle.

Like soft little cakes, these whoopie pies are fragrant and lightly sweet, with a spiced cream-cheese filling.

Mandelbrot is a typical Passover dessert, but it makes a great gluten-free option for Rosh Hashanah, too!

These biscotti are a fun twist on the usual Rosh Hashanah honey cake.

With the quintessential fall flavors of apples and cinnamon, these crunchy biscotti are just the thing for Rosh Hashanah.

These chewy cookies are the perfect way to enjoy the flavors of honey-dipped apples.

Or try a cake version of honey-dipped apples!

This gluten-free apple cake is incredibly creamy and the recipe is completely fool proof.

This galette recipe makes great use of the apples-and-honey combo--and it's gluten free!

These adorable candy pops double as tea stirrers, adding smooth honey sweetness as they melt into the tea!

Think chewy, creamy caramel with a fruity touch. These easy to make sweets are a festive treat and make wonderful gifts.