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Sukkot

A week of meals eaten in a leaf-roofed hut, with stuffed vegetables for the harvest.

Sukkoth in Kfar Etzyon, Gush Etzyon, Israel
Photo: Zachi Evenor, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What is eaten for Sukkot

Sukkot recalls the forty years in the wilderness and gives thanks for the harvest. For a week Jews eat their meals in a sukkah, a hut with a roof of branches through which the stars can be seen. What matters most is where the food is eaten, and guests are invited to share it. The dishes are those of the harvest, and stuffed foods stand for plenty: cabbage leaves rolled round meat and rice, stuffed peppers and vine leaves. Kreplach are eaten on the seventh day.

The dishes

Cabbage rollCalled holishkes, a stuffed dish for a full harvest.Stuffed peppersAnother filled vegetable for the season.ChallahDipped in honey through the festival.

Also part of it, and being written: Kreplach (Eaten on Hoshana Rabbah, the seventh day.), Tzimmes (Sweet carrots carried over from the New Year.).

More dishes made for Sukkot

Ma'amoulVegetarianمعمول 🇸🇾 Syria and 4 moreSemolina cookies filled with dates or nuts, shaped in moulds for festive occasions Sweet or dessert, Snacks, Tea time
About this page

Written by the Thali desk with AI assistance. Background: "Sukkot" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from family to family and place to place. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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