How is Sufganiyot pronounced?
What Sufganiyot means?
These traditional Jewish jelly doughnuts are cooked in oil and used to symbolize the oil lamps that burned for eight nights in the Hanukkah story.
Why do we eat sufganiyot on Hanukkah?
The short answer is because the holiday of Chanukah is about the small jar of oil miraculously lasting for eight days and therefore, frying foods in oil commemorates that miracle.