The 27 Best Purim Recipes (2024)

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You've heard the reading of Megillat Esther (twice), Mishloach manot have been delivered, tzedekkah has been given...it's time for your Purim seudah! Let us help you to design your menu. These are the 27 Best Purim Recipes from Yay Kosher.

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Hamantaschen

At your Purim meal it's all about the Hamantaschen. These are our favorite Purim cookie recipes straight from our blog:

Easy Hamantaschen Recipe

This is our traditional Hamantaschen recipe. It is a classic triangle shaped cookie that is usually filled with jelly, poppyseed filling, or prune.

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Yellow Cake Mix Hamantaschen Hack

One of our most popular Hamantaschen recipes. This one cuts out the time waiting for the dough to set in the refrigerator. The hack is that this recipe uses yellow cake mix to make the Hamantaschen cookie. Fill with your favorite filling.

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Chocolate Fudge Brownie Mix Hamantaschen Hack

Our second Hamantaschen hack that scraps the need for refrigeration. Just like the Yellow Cake Mix Hamantaschen Hack, this recipe is a soft cookie. Chocolate fudge brownie mix is used here.

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Chocolate Cheesecake Hamantaschen

It doesn't get more delectable than this! A chocolate Hamantaschen cookie and velvety cheesecake filling. This recipe is dairy but has a pareve variant so you can also serve it with meat meals.

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The Best Cheesecake Hamantaschen

Just like its Chocolate Cheesecake Hamantaschen cousin, this cookie has a light crunch with a velvety smooth filling. Yum!

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Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Banana Hamantaschen

Just because you can't have gluten in your diet does not mean that you have to sacrifice delicious Hamantaschen on Purim. This recipe only uses three ingredients and has a caramelized banana taste that can hold its own against the other Hamantaschen cookies on this list.

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Other desserts

Hamantaschen are great but you are going to need some other desserts to serve at your Purim seuda. Here are some of our other dessert suggestions that we love:

The Best Vegan Funfetti Cake

This cake is a feast for the eyes as well as the stomach. Nothing says festive like thousands of colorful sprinkles both inside and on top of this cake. Use our pareve recipe for Quick and Easy Vanilla Buttercream Frosting with this cake for a dessert recipe worthy of Queen Esther herself.

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The Best Crinkle Brownie Cookies

These cookies are light and airy and the powdered sugar on top makes them melt in your mouth.

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Homemade Cake Pops (Starbucks Copycat)

These cake pops are a little more difficult to make than our average recipe but the end result is worth it. Purim is worth the extra effort to serve desserts this good.

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Chewy Chocolate Chip Blondies

Is it a cookie? Is it a brownie? It's both! Serve this at your Purim Seuda and it will appeal to both cookie and brownie purists.

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Chocolate Chip Cookie Pie

This is such a fun and different way to serve a chocolate chip cookie. Cut it like you would cut a pizza and serve on a circular dish alongside your other desserts.

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Baked Pears with Cinnamon

A healthy dessert option that does not skimp on the flavor.

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Cherry Dump Cake - 3 Ingredients

This recipe is a super simple way to add some color to your dessert menu. Only 3 ingredients and less than an hour to prepare and bake.

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Main dishes

No Purim meal is complete without an amazing main course. Whether you are a fan of beef, chicken, or fish, these are some of our most popular main courses for Purim:

Marinated Chuck Eye Roast

Serve perfect medium rare slices of this roast to your guests for a Purim main course that they will never forget.

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Tzimmes with Beef

This is such a colorful recipe to add to your table on Purim. Classic tzimmes flavors with yummy corned beef or pastrami.

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Cranberry Chicken with Onion Soup Mix

This is a classic comfort food that stands out at any Purim seuda. Super simple to make and tons of flavor!

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Herbed Oven Roasted Whole Chicken

This recipe is a fun and different way to serve chicken. It has the appearance of a Thanksgiving turkey dinner but it's chicken! The perfect "dinner in a mask" for Purim.

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Easy Apricot and Mustard Glazed Salmon

Sweet and savory, a hit whenever it is served.

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Brown Sugar Smoked Salmon

This recipe takes a bit more effort to prepare than the Apricot Glazed Salmon because of the use of the smoker. Fortunately, it doesn't need to smoke for too long. A fun surprise to serve on Purim.

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The Best Oven Brisket Recipe

A classic slow cooked beef brisket recipe.

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Side dishes

The best meals are rounded out with great side dishes. Most of these will provide a healthy accompaniment to the main dishes.

Easy Israeli Salad with Cucumber and Tomato

This Easy Israeli Salad Recipe with Cucumber and Tomato is the perfect compliment to almost any main dish. Use fresh cucumbers and tomatoes to make a tasty side for dishes.

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Red Cabbage Salad

A quick recipe for a refreshing and delicious healthy salad.

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The Best Mashed Potatoes Without Milk

A pareve recipe for an American classic. This mashed potatoes recipe compliments any of the main dishes we have on this list. You can't go wrong!

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Quick and Easy Sheet Pan Oven Roasted Broccoli

If you are going to make this...make a lot of it. The crispy broccoli edges are irresistible. Think potato chips, but healthy.

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Easy Sweet Potato Medallions

Fluffy and creamy on the inside, crispy on the outside.

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Easy CrockPot Potato Soup

A warm comfort food that you can just leave in the slow cooker all day and serve when you are ready. Easy to make and super tasty!

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Sweet Onion Teriyaki Sauce (Subway Copycat)

You wouldn't eat this sauce recipe by itself but it goes on everything. Have a bowl or condiment bottle full of this during the Purim meal and use it as a topping for the side dishes and main course.

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FAQs

What do Ashkenazi eat on Purim? ›

For Ashkenazi Jews, perhaps the most widely held food tradition on Purim is eating triangular-shaped foods such as kreplach and hamantashen pastries. Kreplach are pasta triangles filled with ground beef or chicken and hamantashen are triangles of pastry dough surrounding a filling often made with dates or poppy seeds.

What is the snack for Purim? ›

Some of the most traditional Purim foods include:
  • Hamantaschen : triangular cookies filled with poppy seeds, chocolate, jelly, or other fillings.
  • Hadgi Badah : almond cookie.
  • Kreplach: stuffed triangular dumplings.
  • Kulich : a sweet challah.
  • Nuts and legumes.
  • Dishes with poppy seeds.
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When should I eat Purim Seudah? ›

The mitzvah to eat a seudah on Purim is specifically in the day. However, it is proper to eat a partial seudah at night as well [1], and it is customary to eat seeds or grains on Purim night to remember the difficulty that Esther had in eating kosher when she was in the palace [2].

What is forbidden on Purim? ›

It is a day of prayer and study and no work, writing, commerce, or travel is permitted.

What is the deficiency of Ashkenazi Jews? ›

The most common Ashkenazi genetic disease is Gaucher disease, with one out of every 10 Ashkenazi Jews carrying the mutated gene that causes the disease. Doctors classify Gaucher disease into three different types, resulting from a deficiency of glucocerebrosidase (GCase) within the body.

What did Queen Esther eat? ›

There are actually conflicting opinions about what Esther chose to eat and refuse in the palace (one commentator suggests that she was actually served pork!). But the midrash that stuck is that she ate beans and legumes.

What do Jews drink on Purim? ›

Throughout our history, wine has played a vital role in Jewish life. The holiday of Purim provides us with a great test of how we will use this powerful substance. Throughout our history, wine has played a vital role in Jewish life. It has brought comfort, joy and closeness to what we hold sacred.

What do Sephardic Jews eat on Purim? ›

Purim offers some consistency across cultures, with Jews around the world eating triangle-shaped foods to celebrate the Jews' triumph over the evil Haman. Sephardic Jews for example, make fazuelos, or orecchie di Amon (“Haman's ears”), small strips of dough that are folded, fried, and powdered.

What is the pastry eaten during Purim? ›

A hamantash ( pl. : hamantashen; also spelled hamantasch, hamantaschen; Yiddish: המן־טאַש homentash, pl. : המן־טאַשן homentashn, 'Haman pockets') is an Ashkenazi Jewish triangular filled-pocket pastry associated with the Jewish holiday of Purim. The name refers to Haman, the villain in the Purim story.

What is the proper greeting for Purim? ›

On Purim, we can greet one another with “Chag Purim sameach!” which means “Happy Purim!” and some people shorten that to “Purim sameach.” In Yiddish, the traditional greeting is for a "freilechen Purim.”

What do you shake on Purim? ›

During purimspiels, lively play versions of the Purim story, audience members yell “boo!” and shake groggers to drown out the name of Haman, the villain.

Do you eat challah on Purim? ›

Braided challah has a special meaning at Purim: it is a symbol of the rope used to hang Haman, the story's villain. Eggs and sugar add richness while a long rise gives it a light-as-air texture. "It came out perfectly... I feel like a pro!" says Cynthia Raye.

What are the three meals on Shabbat? ›

Shabbat meals or Shabbos meals (Hebrew: סעודות שבת, romanized: Seudot Shabbat, Seudoys Shabbos) are the three meals eaten by Shabbat-observant Jews, the first on Friday night, the second on Saturday day, and the third late on Saturday afternoon.

What do Jews eat during the festival of Purim and why? ›

The most well known food eaten during Purim are pastries called Hamantaschen, which are filled with poppy seeds. They eat seeds because Esther only ate seeds while she lived in the King's palace. This festival is important to Jews as they are remembering God's power to save them and that good overcomes evil.

Is Purim an Ashkenazi holiday? ›

On Purim, Ashkenazi Jews and Israeli Jews (of both Ashkenazi and Sephardic descent) eat triangular pastries called hamantaschen ("Haman's pockets") or oznei Haman ("Haman's ears"). A sweet pastry dough is rolled out, cut into circles, and traditionally filled with a raspberry, apricot, date, or poppy seed filling.

What do Ashkenazi Jews eat on Rosh Hashanah? ›

Of course, the main part of the meal was always traditional Ashkenazi cuisine: raisin challah, matzo ball soup, brisket, kugel, apple cake, cookies, and other Northern European-style foods.

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