Check out these recipes for Rosh Hashanah!
Planning your Rosh Hashana menu? Here are more than 55 great recipes to celebrate the Jewish New Year.
Apples dipped in honey—and Honey Cake—are quintessential recipes for Rosh Hashanah. But other foods symbolize our hopes and dreams for good luck, new beginnings, good health, and prosperity, too.
Pomegranates, dates, green beans, beets, and sweet winter squashes like pumpkin and butternut are auspicious Jewish New Year foods, too. There are lots of recipes for Rosh Hashanah dishes that incorporate these ingredients.
What to eat on Rosh Hashanah
Rosh Hashanah is a food holiday if ever there was one. Check out these 55+ favorite recipes for Rosh Hashanah. This list will help you build the perfect menu to celebrate the holiday and guarantee a sweet new year.
55+ Best Recipes for Rosh Hashanah
Rosh Hashanah is a food holiday if ever there was one. Here are 56 recipes for your Rosh Hashanah menu.
Rosh Hashanah Honey Cake —So Moist and Delicious
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 Orange and Cinnamon
Honey Cookies with cinnamon and orange zest are perfect for Rosh Hashanah! They're soft, chewy, and full of honey flavor!
Chocolate Babka Wreath with Orange
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.
Beef Brisket with Dried Fruit and Spices
My Rosh Hashana menu always centers around this savory, spiced brisket braised with dried fruit. Appetizers, sides, and dessert fall into place around it.
Beets Brighten Up this White Bean Hummus
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.
Grandma Fran's Vegetarian Chopped Liver
This classic vegetarian chopped liver recipe uses hard-boiled eggs, onions, and walnuts to create a vegetarian version that tastes delicious!
Butternut Squash Latke Recipe
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!
Beef Borekas or Pastelicos
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.
Beet Salad with Harissa Dressing
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.
Beet Salad: from side dish to main course
Capers and dill pickles add tang to this beet salad.
Israeli Salad with Egg and Feta Cheese
Israeli Salad includes finely diced tomatoes and cucumbers, as well as hard-boiled eggs and feta cheese.
Green Bean Salad with Crispy Fried Onions
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).
Simanim Salad
This fresh and colorful salad includes many of the important simanim (signs or symbols) of Rosh Hashanah: Apples, pumpkin (seeds), pomegranate, and honey.
Roasted Butternut Squash Kale Salad with Chickpeas and Cranberries
This Roasted Butternut Squash Kale Salad is topped with honey roasted cranberries and crispy seasoned chickpeas.
Apple Polenta Gorgonzola Bites
These apple and blue cheese polenta bites are a fun appetizer.
Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Garbanzo Beans and Almonds
Chermoula Roasted Beets | Air Fryer Recipe
These air fryer beets make an easy and delicious vegan side dish.
Roasted Carrots, Apples & Sweet Potatoes with Cinnamon Tahini
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.
Raw Balsamic Tahini Beet Noodles - Strength and Sunshine
The sweetness of beets combined with the tang and creaminess of a balsamic tahini is a perfect match.
Cinnamon Infused Pomegranate Saffron Rice Recipe
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.
Jasmine Rice Stuffing with Butternut Squash, Dates & Cranberries
Homemade Pumpkin Pasta and the Taste Creations Blog Hop for October
Delicate pumpkin gnocchi are flavored with just a hint of nutmeg.
Sauerkraut Chickpea Flour Ravioli + Spiced Applesauce
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!
Butternut Ginger Soup | Instant Pot Recipe
This easy Instant Pot soup is creamy, nutritious, and a perfect way to ring in the New Year.
Pumpkin ginger and brown butter soup with caramelized chestnuts
This creamy sweet pumpkin soup is spiked with ginger and topped with caramelized chestnuts and toasted pecans.
Simple Pumpkin Cream Soup
This creamy pumpkin soup is more savory than sweet.
Roasted Butternut Squash Soup
This silky vegan butternut soup is topped with spicy roasted chickpeas for extra flavor.
Vegan Pumpkin Curry Skillet Meal Recipe
This vegan pumpkin curry makes a great vegetarian main course for Rosh Hashanah.
Honey Sriracha Chicken Thighs
This cast-iron skillet-cooked chicken dish combines spicy, tangy sriracha sauce with sweet honey in an addictive glaze.
Perfect Roast Chicken
This chicken roasting method turns out the most perfect, cripsy-skinned, juicy and moist chicken you've ever had.
Air Fryer Whole Chicken
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 Bake with Apples, Onions, and Horseradish
Chicken and rice is baked with horseradish, onions, and apples.
Jewish Stuffed Cabbage
Jewish stuffed cabbage is filled with a sweet-and-sour mix of ground beef, rice, raisins, and other ingredients.
Pressure Cooker Jewish Style Sweet and Sour Stuffed Cabbage
Traditional style sweet and sour stuffed cabbage that cooks in less than an hour.
Brisket with Roasted Carrots and Hasselback New Potatoes
This roast brisket with carrots and hasselback potatoes is a satisfying meal.
Jewish Brisket
This Jewish brisket recipe is everything — it’s tender, falls apart, it’s loaded with flavor, and free of junk ingredients.
The Best Beef Brisket Recipe
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!Â
Pressure Cooker Friday Night Shabbos Brisket
The pressure cooker makes it quick to cook traditional brisket.
Easy Instant Pot Brisket In Tomato Sauce — Keto, Low Carb, Paleo
Pressure cooker brisket in tomato sauce.
Instant Pot Leg of Lamb — Low Carb, Keto, Paleo, Gluten Free
Use the Instant Pot to make the most tender and juicy leg of lamb ever!
The Best Challah Recipe
No Rosh Hashanah meal is complete without a gorgeous round of homemade challah!
Round Challah for Rosh Hashana
Delicious light and airy round challah is served on Rosh Hashanah to symbolize the cycle of life.
Beet Buns - Renana's Kitchen
Beet buns are an interesting--and colorful--alternative to challah.
How to Make a Rose Apple Pie
Thinly sliced apples are shaped into roses in this elegant apple pie.
Apple Pie Bread Recipe with Honey Caramel Sauce
This recipe combines all the flavors of apple pie recipe with a delicious babka.
Honey Cheesecake with Apple Pecan Shortbread Crust
Try this delicious twist on an apple-and-honey cake!
Apple Upside Down Cake with Honey (gluten-free, whole grain options and dairy-free)
This upside down apple-and-honey cake is sticky sweet and gluten- and dairy-free!
Gluten-Free Apple-Cinnamon Kugel Made With Coconut Flour
Here's another gluten-free twist on a classic Jewish dessert. This kugel uses thinly sliced apples and a coconut flour-based batter.
Caramel Apple Pie Bars (Vegan & Gluten Free) | Crowded Kitchen
The picture says it all here--sweet apples, crumbly streusel topping, and rich caramel drizzle.
Honey Cake Whoopie Pies
Like soft little cakes, these whoopie pies are fragrant and lightly sweet, with a spiced cream-cheese filling.
Cherry Almond Mandel Bread (Mandelbrot Recipe)
Mandelbrot is a typical Passover dessert, but it makes a great gluten-free option for Rosh Hashanah, too!
Honey Cake Biscotti - The Monday Box
These biscotti are a fun twist on the usual Rosh Hashanah honey cake.
Apple Cinnamon Biscotti
With the quintessential fall flavors of apples and cinnamon, these crunchy biscotti are just the thing for Rosh Hashanah.
Apples and Honey Cookies
These chewy cookies are the perfect way to enjoy the flavors of honey-dipped apples.
Honey Applesauce Cake - The Monday Box
Or try a cake version of honey-dipped apples!
Totally Fool Proof Gluten Free Apple Cake Recipe
This gluten-free apple cake is incredibly creamy and the recipe is completely fool proof.
Honey Apple Gluten Free Galette
This galette recipe makes great use of the apples-and-honey combo--and it's gluten free!
Honey Lollipops for Licking, Stirring, and Gifting
These adorable candy pops double as tea stirrers, adding smooth honey sweetness as they melt into the tea!
Pomegranate Caramels
Think chewy, creamy caramel with a fruity touch. These easy to make sweets are a festive treat and make wonderful gifts.
More Jewish holiday recipes you’ll love
- Honey Cake
- Honey Cookies
- Lemon Coconut Macaroons
- Jewish Beef Brisket
- Meat-Filled Borekas or Pastelicos
- Passover Orange Sponge Cake
- Passover Potato, Tomato, and Olive Stew
- Hamentashen
- Kreplach with Beef Filling
- Sufganiyot or Jelly Donuts for Hanukkah
- Potato Latkes for Hanukkah
- Classic Chopped Liver
- Vegetarian Chopped Liver
- Check out all of my Jewish Recipes!