Life
16 Unique Hanukkah Recipes That Are Kosher, Unexpected, and So Delicious
Every holiday season, no matter what you celebrate, we are all united by the one overarching meaning of the holidays: eating as much food as we possibly can. I mean, also cherishing your family and being thankful for all that you have in life...but mostly food. If you celebrate Hanukkah, or have ever been invited into Jewish friends' shindigs, you know that Hanukkah is holiday of magical food and awesome desserts.
When it comes to cooking for the holidays, my friends have always been really big on tradition, too. Everybody makes the same dishes every year because they are automatic crowd pleasers, and there is some comfort in familiarity. But while you can still enjoy kosher Hanukkah dishes you know and love, there is certainly plenty of room to mix things up this year by bringing a dish to the party that nobody else has. Now, it would take too long to research that yourself (Hanukkah is NEXT WEEK, SURPRISE!), so we've collected some snazzy ideas for kosher recipes that we can almost guarantee nobody else will bring to the family potluck dinner.
Image: rooey/Flickr
Funky Chicken With Sesame Noodles
Surprise! These aren’t just spontaneously pulled out a crack in the earth and delivered to your house at 2AM—you can make them in your own kitchen.
Image: jeffreyww/Flickr
Guacamole With Stuffed Whitefish
Better get on this awesome twist on guac before the great avocado shortage begins.
Image: slgc/Flickr
Eggplant Meatballs
Someday I’m going to make these and not tell my family that they’re not actually meatballs just to watch their expression when they try some. #terriblehuman
Image: imallergic/Flickr
Purple Cabbage Pecan Salad
Arguably the prettiest healthy food you’ll ever eat.
Image: kaichanvog/Flickr
Sweet Potato Latke With Pineapple Sambal
Has anybody ever regretted frying a sweet potato? That’s what I thought.
Image: gottshar/Flickr
Thai-Flavored London Broil
This one takes a little overnight prep, so be sure to plan ahead.
Image: adactio/Flickr
Baked Asparagus Spinach Risotta
If you eat enough vegetables you’ll kind of cosmically balance out all the dessert, right?
Image: danielchownet/Flickr
Spinach And Goat Cheese Hashbrown Nests
The words “hashbrown” and “nest” are perhaps the only two words in the English language that combined have enough power to make me want to get up for an early Sunday brunch.
Image: stevendepolo/Flickr
Crockpot Apricot Chicken
Crockpot chicken is foolproof. There are literally four ingredients in this recipe. It is your destiny.
Image: stone-soup/Flickr
Porcini Mushroom Latkes
There is pretty much an endless list of things you can do to pizzazz your latkes, but mushrooms are usually are crowd pleaser.
Image: imallergic/Flickr
Spinach Garlic Edamame Hummus
These three flavors combined are basically the wonder triplets.
Images: justinwilson/Flickr
Yakitori (Japanese Grilled Chicken Skewers)
The recipe calls for sake, which means someone is going to have to drink up those leftovers, amirite?
Image: adactio/Flickr
Chocolate Orange Bundt Cake
Everyone knows that no matter how impressive the main dishes are, we’re all really just waiting for dessert.
Image: kimblerlykv/Flickr
