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!

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

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!

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23 Mouthwatering Recipes To Make On Shavuot (2024)

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What are traditional Shavuot foods? ›

Whatever the reason, dairy foods are often consumed on Shavuot. Popular Shavuot recipes include cheesecake, blintzes, and kugels – all of which you'll find plenty of in the collection below!

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Why cheese on Shavuot? ›

But once the Torah was handed down, the passages containing the phrase “Land of Milk and Honey” (e.g., Exodus 3:8) made their consumption permissible. Thus we eat dairy products to commemorate the fact that on Shavuot, God allowed us to eat these.

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What is served on Shavuot? ›

In America, one of the most popular Shavuot foods - besides cheesecake, natch - are blintzes. Blintzes are a sweet treat of thin pancakes — similar to a French crêpe — filled with soft, fresh cheese and rolled up like a little package.

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What is Shavuot dinner? ›

Shavuot (Pentecost) celebrates the harvest season in Israel and the anniversary of the giving of the Ten Commandments to the Israelites at Mount Sinai. It is customary to eat dairy food on Shavuot for a number of reasons.

What is not allowed on Shavuot? ›

Working: Engaging in work or labor is generally prohibited on Shavuot, much like during Shabbat and other Jewish festivals. Driving or using electronic devices: As with Shabbat, use of electronic devices and driving should be refrained from during the holiday, as these activities are considered forms of creative work.

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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.

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Do you eat cheesecake on Shavuot? ›

Other common dairy foods that are on the Shavuot menu include blintzes, burekas, kreplach (dumplings) filled with cheese, etc. Shavuot is the only major holiday that traditionally includes a dairy menu. Whatever the reason, Shavuot and cheesecake are often thought of together and for that, there is reason to celebrate!

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Can I cook on Shavuot? ›

Prohibition does not apply to slaughtering, breading, baking, roasting, cooking, grinding spices (that would otherwise lose flavor), kindling and burning, carrying, extinguishing if indispensable in preparation of food.

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Can you have meat on Shavuot? ›

Answer: We may generally eat meat after dairy once we have done all the following after eating dairy: 1) washed our hands; 2) cleansed our mouth by eating a dry-food substance⁵; and 3) rinsed our mouth. Additionally, many have the custom to wait approximately one hour⁷ or one half-hour⁸ before eating meat.

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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.

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Do you eat challah on Shavuot? ›

Shavuot (which starts at sundown on June 3rd this year) can really inspire creativity in the kitchen. Or, if you prefer, it can be extremely simple. The three main categories are dairy (cheese and milk), twin challahs (challot), and kreplach. Eating dairy is a staple of Shavuot.

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How do you dress for Shavuot? ›

Women across Israel get ready for the Chag with white dresses (flowy, cotton, hair blowing in the breeze, Israeli style). Newspapers and lifestyle sections fill up with “Guide to Getting your White Dress for Shavuot,” best prices, and this year's styles.

Why do you wear white on Shavuot? ›

Wearing white is a symbol of the bridal and groom attire symbolic to the marriage G-d makes with the children of Israel during this holiday. According to Aish TLV Rabbi Shlomo Chen for YNET news, “Wearing white is basically like being an angel.

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How is Shavuot celebrated at home? ›

There is no Jewish law regarding home practices or rituals on Shavuot. Jewish practice regarding food on Shavuot is the result of customs and traditions. The main custom is the eating of dairy dishes, mainly dishes containing milk products and cheese. There are a number of theories about how this practice developed.

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Do we eat meat on Shavuot? ›

To commemorate this, we eat two meals on Shavuot—first a dairy meal, and then, after a short break, we eat the traditional holiday meat meal.

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Can you eat meat during Shavuot? ›

To strengthen Moshe's argument, we too, eat both milk and meat on Shavuot, being very careful to properly separate the two foods as required. Additionally, the numerical value of milk (“chalav”) is forty, which recalls the number of days that Moshe spent on Mount Sinai in preparation for the receiving of the Torah.

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