Ultimate Passover Guide

Here’s everything you need for a delicious Passover, from classic matzo balls to Gail Simmons’s best holiday recipes. Chag Pesach Sameach!

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Desserts for Passover

From an extraordinary hazelnut-and-chocolate meringue cakes to fudgy chocolate walnut cookies, here are superb Passover dessert recipes.

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Online Community's Favorite Passover Dishes

These popular recipes include slow-braised short ribs with spinach and Grandma Selma's classic brisket.

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Modern Passover

From rosemary matzo ball soup to an over-the-top hazelnut-and-chocolate meringue cake, here are modern Passover recipes.

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Fish Dishes for Passover

From poached salmon with cucumber raita to herb-broiled sea bass with lemon aioli, here are great fish dishes for Passover.

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Incredible Passover Recipes

From slow braised short ribs with matzo cholent to classic matzo ball soup, here are delicious Passover recipes.

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Gail Simmons's Favorite Passover Recipes

The Top Chef judge's favorite recipes from horseradish brisket to rosemary matzo ball soup.

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Passover Appetizers

Some of the best appetizers for Passover are also easy to make. Try these recipes for your starter course.

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Passover Vegetable Recipes

In their natural state, most raw and unprocessed vegetables are indeed Kosher. However, once you liven these ingredients up with anything like butter, cheese, or meat, they become part of either the dairy or meat category and therefore cannot appear on a mixed plate. To help you keep kosher this Passover season, we rounded up several dairy and meat free vegetable recipes so your holiday can be as delicious as it is holy.

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Easy Passover Recipes

Use these easy recipes to make simple and delicious Passover dishes and desserts during the holiday.

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Quinoa Recipes for Passover

For Sephardic Jews who eat quinoa during Passover, F&W offers delicious quinoa recipes like lemony quinoa salad with shaved vegetables.

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5 Tips for Perfect Matzoh Balls

Smart tips for delicious matzoh balls.

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How to Make Joyce Goldstein's Passover Cheese Pie

This simple, cheese-stuffed pie recipe adapted from Joyce Goldstein's The New Mediterranean Jewish Table is perfect for Passover.

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After 800 Years, Rice, Beans and Corn Are Now Okay for Passover

The Passover menu just opened up.

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The Only Reason to Buy Manischewitz Wine This Passover

Drinking the saccharine, syrupy Manischewitz as an adult can be fun in an ironic, nostalgic way, but like most things in life, this Passover tradition is improved with liquor.

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Passover Lamb with Pickled Cherries

Chef Andrew Zimmern dresses simple roast leg of lamb with a tangy, bright side of pickled cherries.

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5 Misconceptions About Kosher Wine

California winemaker Jeff Morgan makes great kosher wines and is the author of a new cookbook, The Covenant Kitchen: Food and Wine for the New Jewish Table.

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7 Passover-Themed Movies and TV Shows to Watch After Your Seder

Perfect for a night when you're actually supposed to recline.

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How to Order Passover Food Online: Our 2017 Guide

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Planning a Passover menu can be a challenge. Luckily, you can order everything from Passover-friendly desserts to a whole Seder dinner to be shipped right to your door. Here, our picks for festive, mail-order Passover food that even Elijah might show up for.

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8 Delicious Lamb Recipes for a Passover Seder

A traditional Passover Seder plate includes a shank bone, which symbolizes the sacrificial lamb that was offered in the Temple in Jerusalem. While it's appropriate to serve lamb for Passover, interpretations of the rules for preparation vary. But if you're serving a reform meal (or just looking for an excuse to have lamb for dinner), here are eight terrific lamb recipes to try for Passover.

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The Best Passover Foods, According to F&W Staff

Much like Thanksgiving, Passover creates taste memories for anyone who grows up celebrating the food-centric holiday. Here are some of our staff's favorite Passover dishes and Seder memories.

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5 Kosher-for-Passover Fish Dishes That Are Better Than Gefilte Fish

Whether or not you're serving the traditional Jewish gefilte fish, here are 5 great fish recipes for this year's Seder.

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8 Upgraded Passover Dishes

Take Passover to another level with these 8 fantastic recipes.

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7 Flourless Desserts for Passover

Passover is only a week away! Here, 7 great Seder-friendly desserts.

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5 Ways to Upgrade Your Classic Passover Recipes

Chef Yehuda Sichel has 5 tips.

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How Passover Brisket Became Texas Barbecue

From the Shtetl to the smoker.

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Who Eats Lamb at Passover?

It's all a matter of biblical interpretation.

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Modern Passover

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Fish Dishes for Passover

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Incredible Passover Recipes

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Gail Simmons's Favorite Passover Recipes

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Passover Appetizers

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Passover Vegetable Recipes

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Easy Passover Recipes

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Quinoa Recipes for Passover

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5 Tips for Perfect Matzoh Balls

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How to Make Joyce Goldstein's Passover Cheese Pie

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After 800 Years, Rice, Beans and Corn Are Now Okay for Passover

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The Only Reason to Buy Manischewitz Wine This Passover

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Passover Lamb with Pickled Cherries

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5 Misconceptions About Kosher Wine

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7 Passover-Themed Movies and TV Shows to Watch After Your Seder

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How to Order Passover Food Online: Our 2017 Guide

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8 Delicious Lamb Recipes for a Passover Seder

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The Best Passover Foods, According to F&W Staff

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5 Kosher-for-Passover Fish Dishes That Are Better Than Gefilte Fish

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8 Upgraded Passover Dishes

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7 Flourless Desserts for Passover

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5 Ways to Upgrade Your Classic Passover Recipes

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How Passover Brisket Became Texas Barbecue

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Who Eats Lamb at Passover?

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