Apple and Walnut Haroseth Recipe (2024)

In the South, we use pecans, not toasted. Delicious!!!! This Passover is more meaningful than any other in my lifetime (70 years) of celebrating. Best wishes for safety and health to all.

Try using half ruby port and half Madeira. Be generous. You want it wet. Use lots of cinnamon. No, that’s not enough - use more. No need for honey or any other sweetener.

I have made this for over 65 years. It never occurred to me to bake the walnuts. Our tradition is simple. Put the cut nuts and peeled apple pieces in a large wooden bowl and chop away. Then take a bowl full out and add grape juice for the children and nonalcohol eaters. The rest you can smother in sweet wine. (We make so much the morning of the first night, it last well past Passover.)

Great recipe! We needed an alcohol free version so we added 4 tablespoons of pomegranate syrup instead of wine and it worked great! Plus a pinch of nutmeg

I make a giant batch of this each year, so everyone can take some home. I get a mixed variety of the crispiest apples in the farmers market. Definitely toast the walnuts, use a food processor to shred the apples and use a lot more honey, wine and cinnamon than stated in this recipe. I leave out the lemon juice because on Passover everything should be sweet. Never tried the salt, but will experiment this year!

Why would you peel the apples? It’s way too much work and you can’t even tell.

I too have made this for over 60 years and have never toasted the walnuts. In recent years I have made this in a food processor which makes it easier. I always make a double recipe because everyone loves it.

This was delicious! I added chopped dates and raisons, and used grape juice rather than wine.

That's exactly how my mother, who learned from her mother, taught me to make it. And how I taught my daughter.

I add dried sour cherries from Michigan as an added treat.

My Haroseth is also Ashkenazic. Apples, walnuts, a bit of sugar, lemon zest, cinnamon and kosher concord grape juice. After the apples are peeled and cut up, both are chopped in an aged wooden chopping bowl with a hockmesser. (Sharp tool with a handle and a rounded blade. In addition to makin Haroseth for Passover, it's also my friend's requested contribution to her Thanksgiving feast.

I threw everything into the food processor and it came out perfectly! Perfect texture, perfect taste. I used Ambrosia Apples and toasted walnuts. Used German Sweet Wine that I got at Trader Joe's.

If you don’t want to use wine, use apple juice-tasted great

1/4 tsp

The Burlap & Barrel brand Royal Cinnamon is magical in anything . Especially anything with apples.......

I use almonds instead of walnuts (it’s been a family tradition for over 50 years). I chop them into fine bits in a food processor. This year I used pealed pink lady apples. I normally use Concorde grape wine and cinnamon. My husband wanted to add lemon juice. I said maybe next year for that.

I always add a well washed entire orange, peel and all, to what I toss in the food processor, with the apples and nuts and cinnamon. Avoids need to add lemon juice. I toss in some kosher red wine—not sweet. Delish and healthy.

Not a good recipe. The apple pieces are far too large for sitting on a piece of matzoh or scooping with one. The lemon juice is an unnecessary ingredient that only increases the acidity of a dish meant to be sweet. By all means use sweet apples as indicated in the ingredients list and not tart apples as a suggested alternative noted in the written description. A half teaspoon of honey is not nearly enough sweetener.

Do not need to roast walnuts . I learned this at my moms knee…..same recipe sans roasted nuts or honey or lemon!

My mother always added fresh ginger and I do it too. It’s delicious.

play with this, you’ll know when it’s what you grew up with! a perfect base recipe

Not worth chopping by hand. Time consuming and actually tastes better when chopped finer in food processor. Needs a lot more honey and more wine.

This was my first time roasting the walnuts and I'm not sure it's a necessary step? ALSO any kosher wine works great (and I definitely would not add any sweetener if using manischewitz!) Always add extra lemon (like the juice of 2) and I think this needs to sit in the fridge for AT LEAST 12 HOURS to really sing - it really brings out the tart/cinnamon-ey/sweet deliciousness!

I used a combination of apples and pears, swapped pecans for walnuts and added a little lemon zest as well as juice. I also used grape juice instead of wine as my husband doesn't drink and nutmeg instead of cinnamon as I detest cinnamon. This is a good base recipe to riff off of with what you have on hand and like and make it deliciously your own!

Used 1.5 tbsp ginger 4/22

Not just any Manischewitz. Has to be heavy Malaga!