New Year Good Luck Recipes

Spice up your New Year with prosperity and flavor using these “New Year Good Luck Recipes,” a collection of dishes believed to bring fortune, ensuring a delicious start to a promising and prosperous year ahead!

New Year Good Luck Recipes

 

Do you follow traditions such as preparing Good Luck Recipes for New Year’s eve? Some cultures believe that there are some good luck recipes that should be served in hope of having more luck, prosperity and good health for the coming new year. We could all use some extra luck right? So why not try to ring in the new year with a feast of these delicious good luck food. Anyway, you’ve got nothing to lose but instead you’ll have a feast of yummy food to enjoy with your family and friends.

Ring in the New Year with delicious new year good luck recipes believed to bring prosperity and fortune:

Fruits – For good fortune all year round, serve round shaped fruits. In some tradition, they serve 12 different round fruits for prosperity for every month of the year.

Pineapple are also believed to be lucky because it symbolizes eye for opportunities. While pomegranate are served for abundance and fertility.

Grapes for 12 Grapes at Midnight: In Spanish tradition, eating 12 grapes at the stroke of midnight represents good luck for each month of the coming year.

Here are some recipes for fruits:

• Kids Fruit Salad Recipe
• Sherry Berries
• Cream Cheese Fruit Dip
• Fruit Kabobs in Yogurt

Greens – It is believed that the more greens you eat the more fortune you get because green is the color of money and greens like cabbage, collards and kale resembles money.

Here are some good luck recipes for cabbage:

• Crunchy Cabbage Salad Recipe
• Fresh Corn and Cabbage Slaw
• Cabbage & Kielbasa Slow Cooker Recipe

Beans – Symbolizes lots of money because they look like coins. Eating black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day is a popular Southern tradition that is thought to bring prosperity.

Black-Eyed Pea Salad: Symbolizing good luck and wealth in many cultures, a zesty black-eyed pea salad can be a flavorful and auspicious choice.

Lentil Soup: Lentils are often associated with prosperity and wealth, making a hearty lentil soup a popular New Year’s dish in various cultures.

 

Here are some beans recipes:

• Hoppin John
• Mediterranean Fava Bean Salad
• Bean Soup Mix
• Beans Greens Pasta
• Seven Can Bean Pantry Soup
• Spicy Mexican Minestrone Soup

Corned Beef – It is an Irish tradition to have corned beef and cabbage on New Year’s day for good luck and prosperity.

 

Try our super easy and delicious Corned Beef recipe plus we have tips on whether you should buy point cut or flat cut corned beef.

Fish – Fish symbolizes moving forward for the New Year. They are also considered auspicious because they swim together which represents abundance.

In some cultures, fish symbolizes progress and abundance. Serve a delicious fish dish to welcome good fortune in the coming year.

Here are some of our good luck recipes for fish:

 

• Fish and Veggies
• Tuna and Salsa
• Baked Lime Tilapia
• Baked Salmon
• Baked Maple Bourbon Salmon Recipe
• Low Calorie Salmon Patties

Noodles – Asian culture always serve noodles for birthday and special occasions because it symbolizes long life. So make sure to serve long noodles.

Here are some good luck recipes for noodles:

• Lo Mein recipe
• Spaghetti Sauce Recipe
• Cream Cheese Spaghetti Bake
• Clean and Simple Spaghetti
• Spaghetti Pizza Bake
• Chicken Parmesan Meatball Spaghetti

Pork – Eating pork on the first day of the New Year is believed to bring good fortune. Pigs symbolizes abundance of food and the animal pushes forward, rooting itself in the ground before moving which symbolizes progress. This is a tradition by the German and Pennsylvania Dutch.

Here are some good luck recipes for pork:

• Homestyle Pork Chops
• Pulled Pork Sandwiches with Peaches
• Unstuffed Pork Chops
• Roast Pork with Apples and Cider Sauce
• Crock Pot Pork
• Cranberry Pork Chops
• Slow Cooker Pulled Pork
• Slow Cooked Pork Loin with Orange Sauce
• Pork Chops in Wine Sauce
• Cranberry Cornbread Pork Chops
• Garlic Pork Chops

Cake – Cake and other baked round pastries like donuts also represents good fortune for the New year. You can also serve sweet and sticky desserts because it symbolizes a happy and close family.

Remember, the most important thing is to share these dishes with loved ones, creating a warm and festive atmosphere for a positive start to the New Year!

Foods Traditionally Avoided on New Year’s

Chicken & Birds

Why: Birds scratch backward, symbolizing setbacks or moving backward instead of forward.
New Year mantra: We only move forward!

Lobster, Shrimp & Crabs

Why: These crawl sideways or backward, which can represent delays or struggles in progress.

Fish with the Tail Removed

Why: The tail symbolizes continuity and abundance.
Serving fish without the head or tail may suggest “cutting off” good fortune.

Knife-Cut or Sliced Foods (Symbolically)

Why: Knives symbolize severing relationships or good luck.
If slicing is needed, do it in the kitchen not at the table.

Broken Rice or Scattered Grains

Why: Broken grains represent financial loss or instability.
Whole, abundant servings are preferred.

Short Noodles