Pesach - Seder Plate

The Seder Plate

Karpas: green herbs such as parsley, lettuce, chicory or any other green salad vegetable.  This is for dipping into the salt water.

Zeroa: a roasted shank-bone with some meat on it, reminiscent of the Paschal lamb, (some use, some deliberately avoid, a lamb bone.  Vegetarians may use beetrood).

Betzah: en egg, boiled, (or first boiled and then roasted) in its shell.  This symbolizes the festival sacrifice.

Maror: bitter herbs, symbolizing the bitterness of slavery.  Usually this is horseradish root, but lettuce can be used instead.

Charoset: a sweet paste in which the maror is dipped, symbolizing the mortar of the bricks used by the Israelite slaves in building cities in Egypt

Chazeret: some seder plates include a second vegetable, like the karpas, as a symbol of Spring.