Skip To Content
JEWISH. INDEPENDENT. NONPROFIT.
Recipes

10 Passover recipes guaranteed to spice up your Seder table

Still planning your Seder? Here are our some of our favorite Passover recipes

Don’t look now, but this year’s Passover Seders are rapidly approaching.

And if you’re like me, desperately behind on Passover planning, you might want some help picking out the last few dishes to complete your Seder.

Whether you are hosting or bringing a dish — or your dad is doing all the cooking and you just want to get in the festive (read: hungry) mood — here are 10 of our favorite recipes from the past decade of Passovers at the Forward.

Mains

Tequila-marinated chicken cutlets

This fresh and light chicken recipe can serve as a counterpoint to the heaviness of mainstream Passover cuisine. If your first-night Seder features a heavy brisket, maybe the second can star this zingy dish.

Turkish lamb with green garlic

A favorite at chef Joyce Goldstein’s San Francisco restaurant Square One, this main dish taps into Passover’s seasonal connection, emphasizing green garlic, a tender staple of early spring, just as it comes into season.

Kalli’ah

Yet another Turkish goody! Kalli’ah — eggs, potatoes and meat cooked confit-style in meat fat — make this the most intensely flavorful dish on the list. While not for the faint of the faint of heart, Kalli’ah will definitely impress.

DIY Passover gnocchi

Cleaning and kashering your house doesn’t sound like enough work? Try your hand at kosher for Passover gnocchi! Delicious, if labor-intensive, this gnocchi recipe shares a lot with the Passover story.

Sides

Roasted beet salad with preserved lemon

The best Passover recipes are the kind you can break out all year, which means good salads shine. Roasted and fresh veggies together in one salad? Yes, please.

Zesty carrot and onion soup

Another year-round recipe, this allium-rich soup is both hearty and fresh, a nod to eating well and springtime — two favorite Passover themes.

Crunchy quinoa with sweet potatoes

Quinoa on Passover is less flashy a choice now than it was in the mid-2010s, when rabbis officially gave the okay to serve the trendy grain during the holiday. But that doesn’t mean we stopped cooking it, and for those of us who don’t eat rice on Passover, this quinoa recipe is a great alternative.

Dessert

Chocolate-haroset truffles

Oven space is tight leading up to the Seder. This no-bake dessert will amaze your guests without taking precious cooking time away from your brisket.

Banana haroset

More is more when it comes to haroset. Don’t replace your traditional recipe with this one. Serve them side-by-side to appease traditionalists and adventurous souls alike.

Elijah’s cup

Technically this is a cocktail, not a dessert. But after eight glasses of wine across two nights, you might want to switch up your alcohol intake as you manage all the family time. Reduced grape syrup hints at the night’s traditional drink, while vodka or pisco gives Elijah’s cup just a bit of a kick.

A message from our CEO & publisher Rachel Fishman Feddersen

I hope you appreciated this article. Before you go, I’d like to ask you to please support the Forward’s award-winning, nonprofit journalism during this critical time.

At a time when other newsrooms are closing or cutting back, the Forward has removed its paywall and invested additional resources to report on the ground from Israel and around the U.S. on the impact of the war, rising antisemitism and polarized discourse..

Readers like you make it all possible. Support our work by becoming a Forward Member and connect with our journalism and your community.

—  Rachel Fishman Feddersen, Publisher and CEO

Join our mission to tell the Jewish story fully and fairly.

Republish This Story

Please read before republishing

We’re happy to make this story available to republish for free, unless it originated with JTA, Haaretz or another publication (as indicated on the article) and as long as you follow our guidelines. You must credit the Forward, retain our pixel and preserve our canonical link in Google search.  See our full guidelines for more information, and this guide for detail about canonical URLs.

To republish, copy the HTML by clicking on the yellow button to the right; it includes our tracking pixel, all paragraph styles and hyperlinks, the author byline and credit to the Forward. It does not include images; to avoid copyright violations, you must add them manually, following our guidelines. Please email us at [email protected], subject line “republish,” with any questions or to let us know what stories you’re picking up.

We don't support Internet Explorer

Please use Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Edge to view this site.