Recipes: Make these Rosh Hashanah dishes to usher in a sweet new year

"Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, begins on the evening of Monday, Sept. 22, and is celebrated for two days. For the occasion, people wish each other a happy, healthy, sweet New Year. To highlight this wish, cooks in many households accent their holiday menus with sweet ingredients. Apple slices dipped in honey are the traditional beginning to the Rosh Hashanah dinner."

"We're serving our Rosh Hashanah fruit platter this year with a special topping - sweet dukkah. Dukkah is best known as a savory sprinkle made with sesame seeds and spices. Rachel Simons, author of "Sesame: Global Recipes + Stories of an Ancient Seed," makes sweet dukkah as well. We love it sprinkled over mixtures of fresh fruit, including berries, tangerine segments, melon cubes, mango pieces and grapes."

Rosh Hashanah marks the Jewish New Year and spans two days beginning the evening of Sept. 22. Traditional wishes include a happy, healthy, sweet new year, and many households incorporate sweet ingredients into holiday menus. Apple slices dipped in honey start the Rosh Hashanah dinner; seasonal or exotic fruits are commonly served on the second day. A sweet Middle Eastern sesame-and-nut mixture, sweet dukkah, is used as a fruit topping. Sweetness appears across dishes—including fruit cobbler, raisins in picadillo, pomegranate sauce in noodle soup, and sugar-free blueberry jam for yogurt and challah.

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