Passover

==Traditional foods==
[[File:Matzah brei serving.jpg|250px|right|thumb|[[Matzah brei]] (fried [[Matzah|matzo]] and egg), a popular Passover dish]]
Because the house is free of leaven (''chametz'') for eight days, the Jewish household typically eats different foods during the week of Passover. Some include:

'''Ashkenazi foods'''
* ''[[Matzah brei]]'' – [[Matzah|Matzo]] softened in milk or water and fried with egg and fat; served either savory or sweet
* Matzo [[kugel]] – A kugel made with matzo instead of noodles
* ''[[Charoset]]'' – A sweet mixture of fruit, fresh, dried or both; nuts; spices; honey; and sometimes wine. The charoset is a symbol of the mortar the Israelites used for building while enslaved in Egypt (See [[Passover seder]])
* ''[[Chrain]]'' – Horseradish and beet relish
* [[Gefilte fish]] – Poached fish patties or fish balls made from a mixture of ground, de-boned fish, mostly [[carp]] or [[pike (fish)|pike]]
* [[Chicken soup]] with [[matzah ball]]s (''kneydlach'') – Chicken soup served with matzo-meal dumplings
* Passover noodles – Noodles prepared from potato flour and eggs, served in soup. Batter is fried like thin crepes, which are stacked, rolled up and sliced into ribbons.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/grandma-hanna-s-lokshen-are-a-perfect-passover-dish-1.5345691|title=Grandma Hanna's Lokshen Are a Perfect Passover Dish|date=April 6, 2017|newspaper=Haaretz|access-date=April 9, 2019|archive-date=February 20, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190220153507/https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/grandma-hanna-s-lokshen-are-a-perfect-passover-dish-1.5345691|url-status=live}}</ref>

'''Sephardi foods'''
* ''Kafteikas di prasa'' – Fried balls made of leeks, meat, and matzo meal
* [[Lamb and mutton|Lamb]] or [[chicken]] leg – A symbol of God's strong hand, and ''korban pesach''
* ''Mina'' ([[pastel (food)|pastel]] di pesach) – a meat or spinach pie made with matzos
* Sephardi ''[[Charoset]]'' is usually made of [[Common fig|figs]], [[raisin]]s and [[Date palm|dates]]. [[History of the Jews in Egypt|Egyptian Jews]] use dates, raisins, walnuts, cinnamon, and sweet wine, while [[History of the Jews in Greece|Greek]] and [[History of the Jews in Turkey|Turkish Jews]] use apples, dates, chopped almonds, and wine. [[Italian Jews]] add chestnuts. [[History of the Jews in Iraq|Iraqi Jews]] make charoset from a mixture of dates and nuts.
* Spring green vegetables – [[artichoke]], [[fava beans]], [[pea]]s