FREE Recipes for Rosh Hashonah & Yom Kippur

The Jewish high holidays mean prayer and food.

Upgrade your Rosh Hashonah and Yom Kippur tables and celebrate the start of the year 5785 with one or more of these FREE recipes and FREE how-to webinars with top chefs.

They are a combination of traditional recipes with a modern twist, and favorites from Jewish communities around the world.

Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown on Wednesday, Oct. 2nd.

Yom Kippur is sundown Friday, Oct. 11 to  to sundown the next day.

The days in between are known as the High Holy Days – the Jewish version of Lent or Ramadan.

From apples and honey to black eyed peas and pomegranates, these free recipes from Tablet magazine’s food experts have you covered.

• To begin this year’s Rosh Hashanah meal, try making a round challah to symbolize the circle of life.
• For main dishes, consider Moroccan inspired fish or lamb.
• Try this sweet kugel, that could serve as a side dish or a dessert.
• Put a spin on traditional Manischewitz by making a Manischewitz fizz.
• To top it off, try honoring the tradition of eating apples and honey in a cake.

In addition to courses and webinars about history and culture, MyJewishLearning.com offers daily recipes along recipes for specific holidays from the international Diaspora, and updates to traditional favs.

• Classic brisket
• Vegetarian brisket
• Sephardic rice with pomegranate seeds
• Kreplach (dumplings)

Tuesday, September 24th, 7:00 pm ET / 4 pm PT – Join My Jewish Learning for a FREE webinar on recipes for a Sephardic Rosh Hashonah, with Chef Vered Guttman. You will learn how to make –

• A roasted chicken and potato dish with a pomegranate and date marinade
• Sephardi leek kifteh, which are similar to latkes (both a vegetarian and a meat version)
• Tunisian squash salad, or tirshi
• Iraqi quince candy with coconut topping, or luzina
• Sign up here 

So that your grandmother doesn’t pressure you into eating so much that you’re stuffed, read these tips on how to stay healthy during the high holidays.

Sunday, Sept. 22, 10am EDT – Leket Israel invites you to  FREE challah baking webinar. Leket Israel is the leading food rescue organization in Israel.

Doughing It Right Challah Baking Tips for Rosh Hashanah, a free, virtual challah braiding workshop featuring well known kosher baker Deborah Dickson.

Discover unique braiding techniques that will make your challah the centerpiece of your holiday celebration. Elevate your Rosh Hashanah table with beautifully braided challah. Bake alongside one of today’s culinary innovators – LIVE – from the comfort of your own kitchen.

• Regster here

Sunday, Sept. 22 , 4pm EDT – This how-to webinar  is not free – it’s $20 – with top chef  Sonya Sanford, who guides you through an easy and elegant Rosh Hashanah dinner  regardless of culinary experience.

Weaving in inspiration and stories from her Ukrainian Jewish heritage, Sonya shares foolproof recipes and techniques to create a beautiful holiday spread with minimal stress. In this class, you’ll learn how to:

• Assemble and source a stunning smoked fish platter that requires no cooking
• Prepare a flavorful one-pot Soviet-style beef and rice plov
• Bake a one-bowl, delicious Ashkenazi autumnal tzimmes cake that even beginners can make confidently

Reservations here. 

Here’s more free recipe inspiration from other food experts –

Kosher.com has a collection of free recipes for Rosh Hashonah, including caramelized onion, honey and chestnut chicken and apple crumb cake.

• Sign up to their newsletter of free recipes to get a free e-book of holiday recipes.

Chabad.com offers both traditional recipes like gefilte fish and modern ones such as avocado and mango salsa.

• And there’s a link to another 29 mouth-watering recipes by food historian Miriam Szokovski including pomegranate-braised brisket and apple noodle kugel with cinnamon crunch topinng.

The food experts at Bon Appetit offer 40+ recipes, including traditional brisket with root vegetables and a cranberry chutney that would be at home on any Thanksgiving table, too.

All these recipes are delicious and nutritious.  You don’t have to be Jewish to enjoy them any time.  And who doesn’t love free recipes.

So that your grandmother doesn’t pressure you into eating so much that you’re stuffed, read these tips on how to stay healthy during the high holidays.

May the New Year bring peace and love around the world.  Hag Sameach.

This article was published originally in 2022, updated and republished in 2023, and updated again for 2024.