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Shavuot

The harvest and Torah festival, with dairy foods: cheesecake, blintzes and Yemenite jachnun, served with grated tomato and zhug.

Girls enjoy themselves at a Bikurim celebration during Shavuot at Kibbutz Nachshon. ילדות בפסטיבל ביכורים בקיבוץ נחשון 05/25/1958
Photo: https://www.flickr.com/people/69061470@N05, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Spices for Shavuot

Shavuot is traditionally celebrated with dairy: cheesecake, blintzes and cheese kreplach with cinnamon sugar. Yemenite Jews bake jachnun overnight, serving it with a hard-boiled egg, grated tomato and zhug, a green or red chilli paste of cilantro, cardamom, cumin, garlic and hot pepper. Sweetened with honey and cinnamon in Europe and heated with chilli in Yemen, dairy dishes show the geography of the Jewish world.

The spices

ZhugThe Yemeni chilli and herb paste.CardamomIn Yemenite spice mixtures.CinnamonSugar topping for blintzes.
About this page

Written by the EveryMasala desk with AI assistance. Background: "Shavuot" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

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The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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