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 5787 with one or more of these FREE recipes. 

You don’t have to be Jewish to enjoy a flavorful pot roast or sweet dessert.

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

Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown on Friday, Sept. 11, to sundown on Sunday, Sept. 13.

Yom Kippur is sundown Sunday, Sept. 20 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)

Here’s more free recipe inspiration –

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.

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