27 of Our Favorite Passover Recipes to Serve at Your Seder (2024)

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What is the typical Passover Seder menu? ›

The actual Seder meal is also quite variable. Traditions among Ashkenazi Jews generally include gefilte fish (poached fish dumplings), matzo ball soup, brisket or roast chicken, potato kugel (somewhat like a casserole) and tzimmes, a stew of carrots and prunes, sometimes including potatoes or sweet potatoes.

The SEDER (SADER) - the Passover meal - is the central celebration of the Passover. It's origin stems from our text today. The entire extended family is to come together. They go through the meal and the retelling of the story in first person as if they had been one of the slaves freed from Pharaoh's bondage.

The tradition goes back to the 13th century, when custom dictated a prohibition against wheat, barley, oats, rice, rye and spelt, Rabbi Amy Levin said on NPR in 2016.

The afikoman, which was hidden earlier in the Seder, is traditionally the last morsel of food eaten by participants in the Seder. Each participant receives an olive-sized portion of matzo to be eaten as afikoman. After the consumption of the afikoman, traditionally, no other food may be eaten for the rest of the night.

Traditional dishes include kugel (a casserole recipe made with potatoes), tzimmes (a roasted vegetable dish made with dried fruits), and Passover desserts like macaroons (a coconut cookie made without any flour).

At first glance the answer seems obvious: of course it was, notwithstanding the fact that it would have been very different from the seder we know today and would not have been called a "seder" at the time. The Synoptic Gospels—Matthew, Mark, and Luke—unequivocally assert that the Last Supper was a Passover meal.

(In the Synoptic Gospels, the Last Supper is a Passover meal and the crucifixion occurs on the Day of Passover itself, Nisan 15. In John, this Last Supper is eaten the evening before and Jesus is crucified on Friday afternoon—but that is the Day of Preparation, Nisan 14.)

Are Christians supposed to celebrate Passover? ›

Some Christians celebrate Passover as the Jews celebrate it. They roast and eat lamb, bitter herbs, and unleavened matzo. Others follow the instructions that Jesus gave to his disciples at the Last Supper before he was crucified, and share bread (usually unleavened) and wine instead of roasted lamb.

A hard-boiled egg, usually roasted, is often placed on the Seder plate. Its roundness alludes to the cycle of rebirth and renewal, while it's burnt, sometimes cracked shell serves as a reminder of ancient sacrificial offerings.

At a Passover seder, the following traditional items are on the table: Seder plate: The seder plate (there's usually one per table) holds at least six of the ritual items that are talked about during the seder: the shankbone, karpas, chazeret, charoset, maror, and egg.

Pesach Dieters, Take Note: You Can Have Your Potato—and Eat It, Too! - Kosher for Passover.

Whether you spell it matzo or matzah, no Passover meal is complete without the brittle unleavened bread. You'll inevitably have plenty leftover, so use it to make matzo brei, matzo granola, or matzo toffee.