What is the name of the roasted egg on the Seder plate?

The roasted egg on the Seder plate is called beitzah.

Beitzah is a hard-boiled egg that is commonly roasted and placed among the symbolic foods at a Passover Seder. It represents the korban chagigah, the additional festival offering once brought to the Temple in Jerusalem. Because the Temple no longer stands and those sacrifices are no longer offered, the egg serves as a visual reminder of that lost ritual tradition.

The egg also carries associations with mourning. In Jewish mourning customs, eggs are traditionally served as a first food to mourners because their round shape can symbolize the cycle of life. For this reason, beitzah is often understood both as a memory of the Temple and as a sign of grief over its destruction.

Beitzah is frequently confused with zeroa, the roasted shank bone or chicken wing representing the paschal sacrifice. Karpas is the green vegetable, and maror is the bitter herb. The egg’s symbolic role developed over time; its use on the Seder plate is commonly associated with early modern Jewish practice.