Make all the resolutions you want, but it can’t hurt to stack the odds in your favor this year. For your benefit, we’ve scoured our favorite cookbooks for the best recipes with ‘lucky’ ingredients. Even if you’re not the superstitious sort, with food this good, you’re sure to feel blessed.

9 Lucky Recipes for the New Year

1. GREENS look like money and project wealth.
   Lucky recipe: The Vegetable Butcher‘s Baked Eggs and Braised Collards
2. RING-SHAPED FOODS symbolize the year coming full circle.
   Lucky recipe: Breaking Breads‘ Jerusalem Bagel
3. POMEGRANATES are associated abundance and fertility for the year ahead.
   Lucky recipe: The Earthbound Cook‘s Chopped Autumn Salad with Pomegranate Seeds
4. BLACK EYED PEAS represent coins and prosperity.
   Lucky recipe: Bean by Bean‘s Traditional Hoppin’ John
5. LENTILS, which plump with water, resemble increased riches.
   Lucky recipe: 660 Curries‘ Brown Lentil Curry
6. See-through LOTUS ROOT symbolizes a wish for the future.
   Lucky recipe: The Chinese Kitchen Garden‘s Vegetarian Lotus Root Stir Fry
7. LONG NOODLES mirror a long life.
   Lucky recipe: Beyond the Great Wall‘s Kazakh Noodles
8. Fatty PORK represents prosperity.
   Lucky recipe: Sheet Pan Suppers‘ Pork Chops with Warm Apple-Cabbage Slaw
9. FISH swim forward, signifying progress.
   Lucky recipe: Taste of Persia‘s Roasted Whole Fish with Walnut Paste