225 jewish recipes

Sephardic-style date haroset made from simmered date paste with sweet wine, cinnamon, and chopped walnuts. A rich, fruity Passover tradition that keeps for two weeks.

Don't know where I heard about this sauce, but it's a great drizzle for vegetables.

Chai Kurdi is traditional Kurdish tea brewed with Indian tea leaves and a whole cinnamon stick. Fragrant, warming, and served with sugar cubes for sweetening to taste.

Traditional Jewish poppy seed candy (mohn) cooked with honey, sugar, chopped nuts, and ginger. A chewy, nutty confection cut into diamonds. Perfect for Purim and holidays.

These delicious carrot candies will for sure satisfy your sweetest tooth. Enjoy!

Kishka (stuffed derma) made with flour, corn flakes, bread, and paprika rolled in foil and baked until firm. A classic Jewish deli appetizer that freezes beautifully for Shabbat or holidays.

Matzo meal cookies with coconut and brown sugar, baked until rich brown and filled with jam centers. A Passover-friendly cookie with no flour, no eggs, no leavening.

Crispy vegetable turnovers with potato, cauliflower, carrots, and peas in a matzo meal crust. These samoosi make 20 golden appetizers that are vegetarian-friendly.

Hamantaschen, the triangular Purim cookies, here filled with a rich honey-nut mixture brightened with lemon. A rum-scented dough folded into the traditional three-cornered shape and baked to a golden glaze.

A succulent dish that is served as an appetizer on a bed of lettuce. Perfect side dish for pasta or rice.

Citrus soup frappe: a chilled, lightly jellied dessert soup of orange, raspberry, and lemon juices laced with red wine, Sauterne, and kirsch. A vintage Continental starter or palate-cleansing finale.

Homemade baked gefilte fish made with ground halibut, shaped into tender balls and baked in tomato sauce with onions and green pepper. An easier, oven-baked twist on the Jewish classic.

Klops, a Jewish-style meat loaf with whole hard-boiled eggs hidden inside ground beef mixed with grated parsnips, carrots, nutmeg, and allspice. Slices reveal a perfect egg center.

Lemon hazelnut torte stacks toasted hazelnut meringue rounds with tangy lemon curd folded into whipped cream. Frozen overnight and topped with fresh raspberries and raspberry sauce.

Cream cheese rugelach filled with raspberry jam, cinnamon brown sugar, cocoa, and hazelnuts. Flaky crescent cookies that freeze beautifully baked or unbaked.

Moroccan couscous cooked in orange juice with dates, raisins, slivered almonds, and cinnamon. A sweet, fragrant North African side dish ready in 30 minutes.