Jewish Thanksgiving Recipes
Author of Sweet Noshings · as seen on Food Network, GMA & The NYT
Thanksgiving isn’t technically a Jewish holiday. And by technically, I mean actually. But that doesn’t mean you can’t have Jewish Thanksgiving Recipes!
I love Thanksgiving. The food, of course, is some of the best around. Turkey. Mashed potatoes. Cranberry Sauce. All topped with bourbon gravy! Remember Thanksgivukkah? When Hanukkah and Thanksgiving overlapped for the first time in forever and the last time in 70,000 years or so? Yeah. It was the best food day ever. So now I aim to recreate the Jewish/Thanksgiving mashup every year. Because you want challah in your stuffing. Trust me. How do you combine Thanksgiving and Jewish food??
Apps
Cheesy Horseradish Bourbon Dip
Pumpkin Spice Mashed Potato Latkes with Cranberry Mustard Dipping Sauce
Pumpkin Challah
Thanksgiving Bourekas
Mains and Sides
Bourbon and Coffee Braised Brisket with Cranberry Sauce
Tahini Mashed Sweet Potatoes with Fried Sage
Mushroom Challah Dressing
Caramelized Onion and Sriracha Potato Kugel
Vegetable Kugel with Caramelized Leeks
Sweet Potato Kugel
Kugel with Candied Pecans
Gorgonzola Mashed Potato Latkes with Apple Jalapeño Relish
Haricot Vert Latkes with Horseradish Creme Fraische and Homemade French Fried Onions
Brussels Sprouts Latkes
Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Gribenes
Thanksgiving Deli Roll
Tzimmes Blintzes with Cardamom Yogurt
Sweets!
Sweet Potato Latkes with Cranberry Pecan Apple Sauce and Cinnamon Yogurt
Pumpkin Butter and Caramelized Fig Rugelach
Sweet Potato Casserole Latkes
Apple Pie Sufganiyot
Pumpkin Pie Blintzes
Apple Spice Latkes with Cinnamon Yogurt and Caramel Sauces
Pumpkin Pie Stuffed Latkes
Tahini Hawaij Pumpkin Pie
*Note that some of these dishes are dairy, some are meat, some are parve.
I love Thanksgiving. The food, of course, is some of the best around. Turkey. Mashed potatoes. Cranberry Sauce. All topped with 
Amy Kritzer Becker is a Jewish food expert, cookbook author of Sweet Noshings, owner of ModernTribe, and culinary-school-trained chef behind What Jew Wanna Eat — a modern Jewish food blog redefining heritage recipes since 2010. Her recipes have been featured in Food Network, Bon Appétit, Forbes, Good Morning America, and the New York Times.
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Ha! Amy… It does not matter when it is…as long as we eat we are happy right?!? Love this list! Thanksgiving happens to be one of my favorite holidays because we get together with the whole family and get loud and happy! Happy Thanksgiving doll!
Haha thanks, Mila!
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When I arrived to the USA as a foreign college student, my first THANKSGIVING was in the home of a Jewish family that invited many of the foreign students, I fell in love with it,any American can celebrate it.
Later I married a non religious jew, my late husband taught me to cook,in my birth country I had servants.
I also asked older ladies to teach me Jewish cooking.
I am and always was a practicing Roman catholic, but I have a perfect Azkenazi Thanksgiving every year, with all the foods my late husband liked and our kids love.
Kugel,latkes, cheese cake,etc,etc.
Thanks for sharing 🙂
WOW… what a great offering of recipes. Thank You… you’ve really made my Thanksgiving (and other holidays, too).
Thank you!!
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