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Hanukkah Recipes

For our annual Hanukkah party, after lighting the Menorah, we serve a variety of latkas (potato, corn, zucchini, cheese, ...) topped with applesauce or sour cream. Fish, a big green salad, and a special Hanukkah dessert go nicely with the fried latkas.
About Kosher Food: Hanukkah Food and Recipes
While potato pancakes (levivot or latkes) and jelly doughnuts (sufganiot) are the most popular Hanukkah treats, there are many more delicious traditional and contemporary Jewish holiday recipes that can add flavor to your Hanukkah celebration.
Latkas (Potato Pancakes)
Use this recipe to make delicious Hanukkah potato pancakes, also known as latkas in Yiddish and livivot in Hebrew.
Applesauce
Use this recipe to make your own applesauce to serve with your Chanukah latkas (potato pancakes).
Chana Shimoni's Israeli Soofganiot
My Hungarian-Israeli mother-in-law makes these jelly doughnuts (soofganiot) every Hanukkah.
Cheese Latkas
This is simply my kids' favorite pancake recipe - for Chanukah or anytime of the year.
Colorful Vegetable Latkas
Use this recipe to make colorful vegetable latkas for Hanukkah.
Corn and Red Pepper Latkas
If you like the taste of corn and peppers together, then you'll especially enjoy eating them in a fried latka in honor of Chanukah.
Hanukkah Candy Dreidel
What child wouldn't love to make his/her own edible dreidel?
Hanukkah Cupcake Menorah
This edible menorah should not take the place of lighting a real Hanukkah Menorah, but it is fun for kids to make, light and then eat and fun to use as a centerpiece for a Hanukkah party.
Zucchini Parmesan Latkas
This is a nice Chanukah party recipe, from Jewish Cooking in America, by Joan Nathan.
Hanukkah Shape Cookies for Kids
Use this recipe to make Chanukah cookies with your kids.
Low-Fat Potato Pancakes (Low-Fat Latkas)
This recipe comes from "The (Almost) No-Fat Holiday Cookbook" by Bryan Clark Gorgon, The Book Publishing Company, 1995.
Busy Cooks Hanukkah Menu
This Hanukkah menu includes quick-to-make recipes, such as Crockpot Beef Brisket, Potato Latkes, Vegetable and Greens Salad, Crockpot Applesauce, Jelly Doughnuts, and Almond Sponge Cake with Raspberry Sauce.
Allrecipes.com: Hanukkah
What I like best about Allrecipes.com is the star rating system. I feel better about trying a recipe when I see others have already tried it and giving a high rank. The Hanukkah recipes are divided into brunch, desserts, kugel, latkes, main dishes, salads, and sides.
Chabad: Chanukah Recipes
Chabad offers traditional holiday recipes: Chanukah Latkes, Cheese Latkes, Rumanian Zucchini Latkes, Apple Latkes, Applesauce, Jelly Doughnuts and Traditional Doughnuts.
Hanukkah Menu by Joyce Goldstein
This menu includes recipes from Williams Sonoma's Complete Entertaining Cookbook, by Joyce Goldstein. The dishes are traditional Eastern European-style: Beet, Cabbage & Mushroom Borscht, Spiced Beef Brisket, Carrot Tsimmes, Potato Latkes, Chunky Applesauce, Pecan Torte, and Tangerine Sorbet.
Hanukkah Menu by Judy Zeidler
Cookbook author Judy Zeidler created these Hanukkah recipes after traveling to Naples Italy, where olives and olive oil are popular ingredients. The menu includes Fried Olives, Sea Bass with Green Olive Sauce, Bell Peppers & Tomatoes, Potato Latkas with Caramelized Oniions, and Grandmother's Olive Oil Cake (Torte Della Nonna).
Hanukkah Menu by Leslie Revsin
Leslie Revsin, a New York chef and food writer, was the first female chef at the Waldorf-Astoria. Chef Revsin enjoys injecting new twists into familiar foods. Her Hanukkah menu includes Cod Fritters, Braised Lamb Shoulder with Figs, Potato-Apple Kugel, Roasted Green Beans and Carrots with Red Onion, and Orange Cake with Apricot Glaze.
Jewish Food List: Chanukkah
If you like the sound of Chanukah Bon Bons, Candle Salad, Dutch Fried Puffs, Glowing Menorah Cake, Stained Glass Cookie Pops and Gelt Double Fudge Chocolate Layer Cake, then you should visit this recipe archive.
Recipes to Go: Chanukah Recipes
Looking for delicious, easy recipes with six major ingredients or less? If so, then this site is for you. Find recipes for Chocolate Mint Chanukah Gelt, Chanukah Nuts, Candle Cupcakes, Vegetable Latkes and more.
RFCJ Archives: Hanukkah Recipes
This collection of Hanukkah recipes includes contributions from around the world. There is everything from traditional Hanukkah latkas to Sweet and Sour Chestnuts to Artichoke and Fennel Ravioli. My personal favorites are the White Cheesecake decorated with Hanukkah Gelt and the Candle Dreidels.
Southern Living Hanukkah Menu
Want your Hanukkah table to have a southern twist? Try this menu from Southern Living. The recipes are Potato Blini with Sour Cream and Caviar, Hanukkah Doughnuts with Strawberry Preserves, Caramelized Maple-and-Garlic-Glazed Salmon, Asparagus Sauté, and Sweet Potato Latkes.

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