Gather around the mesa to enjoy these fresh take on classic Hanukkah recipes .

foot and choose from our favorite Hanukkah nip to mix old and new traditions . These classic dishes , including challah , brisket , latkes , and more , feature merry new twists to help bring class together .

Beef Brisket with Dried Fruit

Brisket is a traditional food dish up during Hanukkah , and we have deal of brisket recipes to prefer from . When it come totender , juicy brisket , do n’t hurry a estimable thing . Let the meat cook easy in a casserole dish with carrots , white potato , and dried fruit for a mix of mouth-watering and mellisonant , then serve with a piquant red wine sauce . The brisket ’s layer of fat , which is leave on during cookery , hold it extra moist .

Best Basic Challah

Feeding a crowd ? This easy hallah recipe is your solution . Our formula have enough fluffy piece to serve 48 . Keep it classic with our basic egg - brush bread or satisfy any sweet cravings by try ourchocolate challahand cinnamon - sugar challah . Use a pastry dough to sweep butter onto the rolls before adding topping . you could even make your challah determine like a hotshot . Now that say Happy Challah - days !

Spice- and Honey-Roasted Carrots

Save clock time on your Hanukkah side dishes by serving vegetable whole ! This carrots are more advanced than a vegetable tray with cutpurse . Flavored with Cuminum cyminum , filbert , and honey , these roast cultivated carrot are hard to resist . For a pretty show of colouring , trade even cultivated carrot for rainbow cultivated carrot .

Roast Vegetable Tsimmes with Apricots

This traditional Hanukkah side dish adds a cock-a-hoop pop of spirit ( and coloration ! ) to your Hanukkah menu . Made with fresh parsnips , beet , and sweet potatoes , you’re able to flavour the veg with olive oil , garlic cloves , Kosher salinity , capsicum , and pimiento . Do it better withour guide to roasting vegetables .

Fruit Salad with Goat Cheese Coins

see meeting place side saladto serve at Hanukkah ? This salad combines the seraphic feeling of peaches with mixed greens , shallots , sweet almond , and a light vinaigrette . Do n’t draw a blank the goat Malva sylvestris coins ! Coated in bread crumbs and rosemary then baked until fortunate , thin goat cheese slice supply the perfect amount of creaminess to the rich salad . Unfamiliar with goat Malva sylvestris ? Check outour tall mallow template . We love the direction this salad looks served up on a wood serving display board .

Pear-Pistachio Cake

This delicious Hanukkah dessert is a premix of invigorated fruit and sweet spices . It ’s one of our favorite pistachio nut Hanukkah recipes . Do n’t worry if you do n’t have a Bundt pan — our recipe can be adapt to bake in single Pan , too .

Mochi Latkes

Put a originative twist on definitive white potato latkes . This recipe bring mochi flour for a delicious , chewy texture . Serve them with lox , sour ointment , cucumber vine , and orchard apple tree sauce for a fun holiday spread that ’s quick for your Hanukkah carte .

Parsleyed Green Beans

What do you get with 2 teaspoons of garlic , a pinch of salt , and a dash of pepper ? A favorite Hanukkah side dish . When you make these green noggin , chop the ail with a unspoiled hint of saltiness — it will soak up the garlic flavor and shift it to the beans . A bit of parsley on top adds supererogatory flavor to your Hanukkah menu .

Homemade Applesauce

We ’re not sure how applesauce became a go - to Hanukkah nutrient , but we ’re not kvetch ! you’re able to make this simple applesauce ahead of time or in your slow cooker . swear out as its own delicacy or use as a healthy barter for traditional baking ingredient . impertinent thyme branchlet add a spot of sophistication to the traditional side dish . And have we mention it ’s a pleasant-tasting dip for latkes ?

Lemon Olive Oil Cake

Yes , you may broil with olive crude ! This saucy and fruity cake will bring home the bacon you over instantaneously with its Citrus limon - infused batter and unused fruit topping .

Sweet Potato and Currant Latkes

Sweet Irish potato , currant , and a mix of spices supply sweetness and color to these Solanum tuberosum bar . These can be made in under 10 arcminute from start to conclusion — just drop them on a baking sheet . They geminate well with applesauce , but you may try some of our otherfavorite sweet Solanum tuberosum recipes , too .

Sweet Root Vegetable Kugel

This comforting casserole gets silky , nutty feel from schmaltz , aka rendered chicken fat . Chopped dried prunes add a pinch of sweetness .

Good Ol' Babka

Make this swirly staff of life recipe in any flavor you want ! We recommend trying cinnamon - streusel , filbert , and dried - fruit babka filling .

Matzo Ball Soup

Baby , it ’s cold outside — so serve up a bowling ball of red-hot soup ! you may glance throughour favorite inspissation soup , but for large gathering , a pot of matzo ball soup can go a farseeing fashion .

Bagel and Lox Pasta Salad

With smoked Salmon River and a warm caper dressing , this vegetable - packed alimentary paste salad is a playful Riffian on a brunch classic .

Sweet Root Vegetable Kugel

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Beef Brisket Dried Fruit

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Best Basic Challah

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Spice and Honey-Roasted Carrots

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Roast Vegetable Tsimmes with Apricots

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Stone Fruit Salad with Baked Goat Cheese Coins

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fresh pear pistachio bundt cake on stand

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Mochi Latkes

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Parsleyed Green Beans

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Homemade Applesauce in small jars with fresh apples

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Lemon Olive Oil Cake

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sweet potato and currant latkes with sauce

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Babka

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Matzo Ball Soup

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Bagel Lox Rigatoni Salad

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