Rosh Hashana menu ideas for all six meals!

Rosh Hashana is the Jewish New Year, it involves a lot of introspection, prayer and food! As any woman of a household knows; she will have to prepare copious amounts of food that will be both tasty and novel.
We all have holiday favorites, but we also like to change it up once in a while. What better way to do it then by mixing some of Sephardi recipes with our Ashkenazi counterparts?


Here are a few ideas:


Erev Rosh Hashana Meal 1
Seder of prayers (Sefardic):·        

          Dates
·         Small light colored beans
·         Leeks
·         Beets
·         Gourd
·         Pomegranate
·         Apple (cooked in sugar) and honey
·         Head of a ram (or a fish)


Challah (Raisin)


Moroccan cooked salad

Grilled eggplant slices with tahini sauce over top and pine nuts
Cooked carrot salad 
Beet salad
Endive leaves filled with Waldorf saladBabaganoush

Moroccan fish-balls


Veal chops in a saffron garlic sauce

Roasted sweet potatoes with onions and raisins
La joue (for the adventurous ones)
Sauteed Haricots vertsPastelle des pommes de terres

Fruit salad

Honey cake Chocolate 
truffles
Tea 

Meal 2:

Challah

Cooked eggplant salad
Cherry tomato avocado-cilantro salad
Potato salad
Grated carrot salad
Moroccan cooked salad

Kani salad

Roasted butternut squash soup 

Stuffed zucchinis in tomato sauce
Schnitzels
Onion and mushroom quiche
Oven roasted vegetables

Tea
Almond cookies
Apple pie

Meal 3:

Challah

Babaganoush
Olive dip
Roasted pepper salad
Celeri Rave
Moroccan cooked salad

Pastilla (Chicken filled)

Couscous with dried fruit
Roasted veal & truffles (if truffles not your thing, you can serve alongside intria or roasted potatoes)
Beef cubes in onion sauce
Asparagus

Tea
Fruit salad
Meringues

Meal 4:

Challah & salads

Cream of mushroom soup (parve)

Moroccan omelet
Meatballs with caramelized onions 
Bulgar wheat with roasted vegetables
Honey and orange glazed chicken

Tea
Sponge cake
Fruit topped with whipped cream (parve)

Meal 5 (Erev Shabbat):

Challah & salads

Salmon with chick peas

Chicken vol aux vents
Minute steaks
Intria
Saffron rice with dried cranberried and garlic

Tea
Tiramisu (parve)
Honey cake

Meal 6 (Shabbat):

Challah & salads

Fried sole

Dafina (Chullent)

Tea
Fruit
Sleep!!!

For more ideas check my links to Rosh Hashana or Meat dishes, Hag sameach to all!






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