This salad incorporates many significant simanim, foods which we eat on Rosh Hashanah in the hopes of being blessed with a sweet and fruitful new year.

Ingredients

  • 1 large head lettuce, in small pieces
  • 1 bag baby spinach
  • seeds of 1/2 pomegranate
  • 1/2 Golden Delicious apple cut in small chunks (with peel)
  • 1/2 Red delicious apple
  • 1/4 cup chopped dates

Dressing

  • 1/4 cup oil
  • 2 tsp. vinegar*
  • 1 tsp. minced scallion
  • 2 tsp. honey
  • 1 tsp. mustard
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 1/4 tsp. garlic
  • pinch of cayenne pepper

Serves 16 as appetizer on indiviual plates.

*There is a custom to stay away from vinegar on Rosh Hashanah. You can replace it with lemon juice.