Rosh Hashana Jewish cuisine

five varieties of fruit preserves rosh hashana, libyan tradition: (clockwise top): apple, quince, plum, squash, orange (in center)

on rosh hashana, jewish new year, variety of symbolic foods eaten:

apples , honey—for sweet year ashkenazi jews, sephardic jews serve cooked or baked apple.
round challah (for ashkenazi jews)
tzimmes (for ashkenazi jews)
teiglach (for ashkenazi jews)
honey cake
pomegranates – year of many blessings (as many there seeds in pomegranate). pomegranates mentioned multiple times in tanakh.
head of fish or mutton, successful year in head, not tail.
leek fried cutlets, called karteh (for sephardic jews).
chard fried cutlets, called salkeh (for sephardic jews).
local type of zucchini called qara a, made sweet confiture (for sephardic jews).
algerian jews serve honey-dipped date pastry called makroudh.




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