Rosh Hashanah menus, while traditional and delicious, can also get a little stale year after year. With Israeli food trending across the globe, now is a perfect time to add some authentic Israeli flavors to your holiday. We have gathered five exclusive recipes from some of Israel’s top chefs: from a whole roasted fish to a sweet whiskey cocktail and an apple dessert that is sure to start your year off on a sweet and beautiful note.
1. Sea Bass with Roasted Peppers and Herb Cream Filling
Chef Mor Cohen, Herbert Samuel Restaurant at the Ritz Carlton Herzliya
Chef Mor Cohen is a highly-respected chef known for his haute kosher cuisine at Herzliya’s Ritz Carlton Hotel. Fish is one of the most traditional symbols of the Jewish New Year, and so this sophisticated recipe serves double duty as delicious and symbolic.
2. Stuffed Chard Leaves with Pomegranate Molasses
Chef Merav Barzilay, Meshek Barzilay,
Meshek Barzilay is Tel Aviv’s pioneering vegan restaurant. For Rosh Hashanah, one of the restaurant’s specialties are these cooked chard leaves, stuffed with grains, dried fruits, nuts, and tart pomegranate molasses. It is a nod to the pomegranate, a major sign of the holiday and the trees of which can already be seen bearing bright red fruit all around the country, ahead of the New Year.
3. Apple Streusel Honey Cake
Chefs Rossella Jona and Amir Porat, Biscotti Bakery
To replicate Biscotti Bakery’s famous apple streusel-topped honey cake at home this holiday, just follow this recipe, which we took straight from the head chefs. Bonus: It’s ready in under an hour.
4. Apple and Honey Whiskey Cocktail
Milk & Honey Whiskey Distillery, Tel Aviv
It’s definitely the time for Israeli whiskey on the international scene, and Rosh Hashanah is the perfect occasion to treat yourself to a bottle of Milk & Honey’s whiskey. Its smooth taste just happens to be perfect for blending into a sweet apple and honey cocktail.
5. Cream Puffs with Candied Pecan and Date Honey Custard
Pastry Chefs Itzik and Keren Kadosh from Kadosh Café in Jerusalem
Kadosh bakery and café in Jerusalem is practically a city landmark. The establishment got its start back to 1967 and has been in the Kadosh family ever since. Husband and wife pastry chef team, Itzik and Keren Kadosh, shared their recipe for Paris-Brest, a donut-shaped cream puff, filled with a candied pecan and date honey pastry cream.
