23 Mouthwatering Recipes To Make On Shavuot (2024)

Chag Sameach!

Shavuot 2023 starts on the evening of Thursday May 25th and ends on the evening of Saturday May 27th

Shavuot is the Jewish holiday that celebrates the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai. Traditionally dairy dishes are eaten on Shavuot. We are bringing you a collection of dairy and vegan Shavuot recipes that go beyond cheesecake! Enjoy these creative Shavuot recipes!

This post has been updated in May 2022

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23 Amazing and Mouthwatering Shavuot Recipes

Easy and Tasty Ricotta Gnocchi with Fresh Tomatoes and Basil - Dairy

Delicious and easy these Ricotta gnocchi will be the start of your Shavuot table.
The fresh tomato sauce is really delicious. Gnocchi can be made ahead and frozen. Detailed instructions are in the post.

Feta and Watermelon Salad - Dairy

Cool refreshing and so good you'll want to make it for every meal. A really fresh Shavuot Recipe.

Eggplant Rollatini - Dairy or Parve

Eggplant Rollatini is one of our favorite Shavuot recipes! It’s filled with fresh herbs and ricotta cheese rolled up in eggplant and cooked in bubbly tomato sauce. There’s even an option for dairy-free ricotta if you want a vegan dish!

Peach Caprese Salad - Dairy

This Peach Caprese Salad is like summer on a plate! It’s light, refreshing, and so easy to make and enjoy on a hot summer day and goes beyond the traditional tomato, mozzarella, and basil salad.

Caprese Salad with Balsamic Glaze - Dairy

This summery Caprese Salad uses tomatoes, mozzarella, balsamic glaze, and fresh basil to create a salad that is as simple as it is delicious. It’s just right for backyard barbecues, picnics, or potlucks. There are never any leftovers! People can’t get enough of this bright vegetarian salad. A really fresh Shavuot recipe.

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Spinach Semolina Gnocchi in Bechamel Sauce with Roasted Tomatoes - Dairy

This easy-to-make dish just melts in your mouth! Semolina Gnocchi are absolutely delicious, especially when paired with a creamy bechamel sauce and tangy roasted tomatoes. Make this next time you’re craving a satisfying and comforting vegetarian dinner! This recipe is one of our most delicious Shavuot Recipes!

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Pea and Artichoke Pasta - Can be made parve

This pea and artichoke pasta is a light, refreshing warm-weather dish tossed with capers, fresh tomatoes, and lemon.One of our prettiest Shavuot recipes.

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High Protein Skillet Eggplant Lasagna- Can be made Parve

Two of our favorite Italian classics come together in this mouthwatering, nutrient-filled eggplant lasagna. Made with seasonal ingredients and high protein lasagna sheets. No oven required!

Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms

Enjoy stuffed portobello mushrooms packed with mashed potatoes, fragrant garlic, capers, and sundried tomatoes. The perfect meatless recipe!

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Cauliflower Gratin

With just a handful of ingredients, we've taken the mighty cauliflower and transformed it into a cheesy, decadent bubbly dinner recipe. Enjoy this cauliflower gratin with a hot bowl of ourvegetarian French onion soupor a healthy bowl ofratatouillefor a French-inspired dinner night.

High Protein LasagnaSoup - Dairy or Parve

This thick and hearty Lasagna Soup is packed with fiber plant-based protein. Vegetarian and gluten-free, is a comforting a satisfying meal in a bowl! One of our most popular Shavuot recipes. Do you want to make it parve? Just use vegan cheese instead.

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Vegetarian French Onion Soup - Dairy

This super delicious Vegetarian French Onion Soup is rich, decadent, and comforting. We replaced the traditional beef broth with a rich mushroom broth which made this Vegetarian French Onion soup simply irresistible.

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Cheese and Zucchini Frittata - Dairy

This versatile baked zucchini frittata is light, savory, and ideal for a breakfast, brunch, lunch, or dinner.All you need to successfully make a frittata is some cooked veggies and eggs. In this case, we used zucchini, eggs, cheese, and some herbs. Easy, simple and delicious Shavuot recipe.

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Delicious, appetizer side dish or even entree, making it healthier by adding cauliflower!

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Cucumber Feta and Watermelon Salad- Dairy

Watermelon salad makes for an easy, refreshing, and light summer dinner. If you’ve never tasted watermelon and feta together before, it may sound like a strange combination. But give it a taste, and you will certainly be hooked. The sweetness of the juicy watermelon meets the rich, salty feta creating an explosion of flavor on every perfect bite.

Cheese Sambusek (Borekas) with step by step directions - Dairy

This cheese Sambusek recipe is our grandmother's recipe, it is a real treat, buttery flaky dough filled with cheese. It is worth the time it takes to make them. Warning: they will not last long. This Shavuot recipe is the one everyone looks forward to every year. This is one of our most requested Shavuot recipes at home

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Cheese Stuffed Potatoes - Dairy

Bite-size Cheese Stuffed Potatoes. The creamy and spicy chipotle cheese complements perfectly the sweetness of these bite-sized stuffed and twice-bakedYukon gold potatoes.

Fig and Cheese Empanadas - Dairy

If you like the combination of sweet and savory flavors, you will love these fresh fig and cheese empanadas! The perfect bite-size snack or appetizer for Shavuot

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Mushroom, Zucchini and Cheese Muffins -Diary

Perfect make-ahead breakfast or lunch. Just grab a couple of this super nutritious mushroom, zucchini & quinoa muffins to start your day with energy! Great Shavuot Recipe.

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Crispy Garlic Basil White Pizza - Dairy

This delicious super crispy white pizza appetizer will wow your friends and family

Fresh Mozzarella, Mushroom and Eggplant Shakshuka Dairy or Parve without the cheese

Shakshuka is a versatile dish, make as simple or as elaborate as you wish. We made our shakshuka with roasted mushrooms and eggplant and creamy fresh mozzarella cheese. Ideal Shavuot recipe.

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Seven Stunning Ricotta Crostini Recipes Dairy

Mediterranean cuisine is synonymous with fresh, high-quality cheeses and vegetables made in simple preparations to highlight their unique flavors. Our Ricotta Crostini Recipe is a great example of how decadent a humble slice of bread with good ricotta cheese can be!

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Perfect bites to make ahead and use for a quick breakfast, lunch, or dinner. One of our most versatile Shavuot recipes.

Knafeh - Move over cheesecake, there is a new player in town! - Dairy

Sweet and incredibly delicious, our cheese Knafeh (ka-nee-fah) is a family favorite. Made with shredded phyllo dough, ricotta, and mozzarella to create a fascinating dessert swimming in orange-blossom syrup and crushed pistachios. This will be your most unique Shavuot recipe.

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Basque Cheesecake - Dairy

Basque Cheesecake (tarta de queso vasca) is probably the best cheesecake you will ever taste.

Apple Pie Cheesecake - Dairy

Lighten up your dessert with this light cheesecake with all the flavor of an apple pie.

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Skinny Chocolate Truffles - Dairy

Creamy, chocolatey and decadent chocolate truffles. They are only 60guilt-free calories per truffles.

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Dairy-Free Chocolate Peanut Butter Tart - Parve

This chocolate peanut butter tart is vegan and gluten-free and the best part is that is super easy to make and it only requires 6 ingredients. The hardest thing is to wait for it to set!

Nana's Cranberry Pistachio Mandelbrot - Parve

Biscotti are the perfect little crunchy cookies to dip in coffee, tea, or sweet dessert wine. This time of year, we love adding cranberries and pistachios to ours, but the flavor combinations are endless! Scroll down to explore them.

Oh So Comforting oat apple bars -Parve

Treat your family to these buttery, super comforting apple oat bars. They will love you for it (even more so than they already do! ). Vegan and gluten-free

Parve Halva Bars - Parve

These vegan halva bars are definitely not your everyday dessert! Absolutely irresistible, strangely addictive and gluten-free

Blueberry Crumble - Parve

This vegan blueberry crumble is like a huge scoop of summer on a plate! Takes less than 10 minutes to prepare, then the oven does the rest of the work! The perfect treat for blueberry lovers. Top it with vegan ice cream and it will become one of your favorites Shavuot recipes!

More Shavuot Recipes

Roasted Vegetables With Fried Moroccan Spice Cheese “Croutons”

Lightened up tiramisu shots

23 Mouthwatering Recipes To Make On Shavuot (2024)

FAQs

What foods do you eat on Shavuot? ›

Among Ashkenazi Jews, or those from eastern and northern Europe, popular dairy dishes for Shavuot include cheesecake, cheese-filled crêpes called blintzes, noodle kugel made with sour cream or cottage cheese, and triangular, cheese-filled dumplings called kreplach.

Why eat milk on Shavuot? ›

There are a number of reasons cited for why we eat dairy on this special holiday—some find the origin in the Biblical verses that refer to the Land of Israel as a land “flowing with milk and honey.” A verse from Song of Songs (4:11) compares the Torah to honey and milk—the Torah provides our spiritual nourishment.

What do sephardim eat on Shavuot? ›

Sephardic Jews eat bourekas — often filled with feta, another fresh cheese — as well as a milk-based bread called el pan de siete cielos (the bread of seven clouds), and Syrian, Iraqi, Persian and Indian Jews enjoy cheese turnovers called sambusak among other dairy-forward delicacies.

What do you eat on Shavuot 2024? ›

The three main categories are dairy (cheese and milk), twin challahs (challot), and kreplach. Eating dairy is a staple of Shavuot.

What is forbidden on Shavuot? ›

Activities forbidden - the rest of 39 Melachot of Shabbat: e.g., plowing, sowing, trapping, building and fashioning utensils, making cheese and butter. Rabbinic prohibitions: Things similar to Melachah - e.g., sharpening knives, producing fire. Things that might lead to Melachah - e.g., feeding animals not yet caught.

What are the 3 customs of Shavuot? ›

Today, we celebrate Shavuot by going to synagogue to hear the 10 Commandments, having festive meals of dairy foods, staying up all night to learn and reading the Book of Ruth. The meals and synagogue attendance are customs for any Jewish holiday.

What fruit is used in Shavuot? ›

But it was during the Shavuot festival that ancient Israelites honored the season's glory by bringing samples of the first fruits of the seven species to the Temple: figs, dates, pomegranates, grapes, olives, and of course, barley and wheat. Not surprisingly, today these are the crops for which Israel is famous.

What is the bread offering on Shavuot? ›

Bread and Torah

He explains that the two loaves offered on Shavuot symbolize the duality that we perceive in creation: one signified divine blessings, the other the product of man's toil. On the anniversary of the giving of the Torah, they were both waived towards heaven as an acknowledgment that both come from G‑d.

Can you eat fish on Shavuot? ›

Salad: Get creative with interesting combos of fruit, veggies, and even edible flowers in your salad. Quiche: Always a crowd-pleaser, plus you can make it in advance and then freeze! Fish: A gorgeous fish dish can be the focus of your meal.

What is the significance of cheesecake on Shavuot? ›

Some say it has to do with the availability of dairy products with abundance of milk in the springtime and some say it is related to the Biblical promise of a land filled with “MILK and honey.” Religious tradition suggests it has to do with the Biblical story of the Ten Commandments and the kosher laws the story ...

What do Sephardic Jews eat? ›

Many Sephardi dishes use ground meat. Milk and meat products could not be mixed or served at the same meal. Cooked, stuffed and baked vegetables are central to the cuisine, as are various kinds of beans, chickpeas, lentils, and bulgur/burghul (cracked wheat). Rice takes the place of potatoes.

Why do Jews eat blintzes? ›

The Origin of the Blintz

The Slavic translation is “pancake” since it resembles a pancake. Traditional fillings include sweetened cheese with raisins. According to historical Jewish customs, blintzes are served as part of a celebration after fasting for 24 hours prior for Yom Kippur.

Do you eat challah on Shavuot? ›

It is permissible to serve butter with a pareve or dairy challah at the Shavuos meal, but keep in mind that one cannot serve butter with a challah that was baked in a fleishig (meat) oven.

How do you celebrate Shavuot at home? ›

How to Celebrate Shavuot: 7 Ideas for the Holiday
  1. Read the Book of Ruth. ...
  2. Study the Ten Commandments. ...
  3. Attend a Tikkun Leil Shavuot. ...
  4. Make (and eat!) ...
  5. Bake a Special Challah. ...
  6. If You Have Young Children, Read Books Related to Shavuot: Check out PJ Library for a list of Shavuot books.
  7. Attend a Shavuot Service (Virtually).

What are you supposed to do on Shavuot? ›

How is Shavuot celebrated? Shavuot is observed by lighting candles both nights, staying up the first night to study Torah, decorating homes with flowers and other plants, attending synagogue services to hear the 10 Commandments, reading the Book of Ruth, and eating festive meals, generally including dairy foods.

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