Eating a vegan diet when you are at home and just preparing your own meals is easy, but when it comes to entertaining, it gets a little more complicated. If you want to host or attend a party and provide vegan healthy appetizers, the following options are great. They not only let you keep eating a vegan diet, but others won’t even know they are missing the dairy and meat! Healthy Appetizers can be super delicious and they need not fill you up before the main meal.
Vegan Healthy Appetizer Ideas
It’s hard following a certain diet when you are out at a gathering. Sure, there might be veggies, but there’s usually a dairy-based dip on the side, or it’s in a coating made with eggs. Here are some amazing vegan healthy appetizers to share at your next party!
1. Swap the mozzarella cheese in these Italian Roasted Potato Skins for vegan cheese. You can’t go wrong with toasted potato skins for any get-together!
2. This Gnocchi with Pomodoro Sauce dish would make a perfect vegan healthy appetizer! It’s actually gnocchi pasta with a homemade tomato-based sauce that can be eaten using toothpicks or forks.
3. The Tangy Vegan Meatballs sauce is made with just three ingredients – cider vinegar, spicy brown mustard and molasses. The molasses adds just the right amount of sweetness and depth of flavor rather than taking over the sauce like honey or sugar might.
4. For this Spicy Corn Relish, you want to mince the onion and jalapeno very fine and do a small dice on the red pepper. You want these flavors to meld and be one, letting the veggies be the texture, but the combination of all of them to be the flavor.
5. This Roasted Eggplant with Tahini is easy to prepare and full of soft, comforting deliciousness. It makes a great appetizer or serve it as part of a mezze meal.
6. Perfect, Crispy Kale Chips ready in just 35 minutes! These potato chip alternatives are so easy to make and are impossible to stop eating.
7. This Vegan Spinach Artichoke Dip is one of those appetizers where people are going to be asking for the recipe and they are going to be asking how much cheese is in this thing. It’s so darn cheesy and creamy they will never, in a million years, believe that it’s not real cheese.
8. The eggplant in this Eggplant Spinach and White Bean Dip can be cooked in advance and chilled, then the spinach and garlic quickly cooked and everything else added as you need it. Once made you can keep in the fridge for a day or two ahead of time!
9. For this Easy Veggie Bean Dip recipe you can use those cute mini sweet bell peppers to make it colorful. Fresh leftover corn and the combination of black beans and chick peas gives this dip it’s oomph. While the recipe calls for ranch dressing, you can create your own using oil and vinegar, salt, pepper and garlic.
10. This Spicy Southwestern Bean Dip may be easy but it sure looks delicious! It has a wonderful combination of flavors and is perfect for eating with tortilla chips, pita chips or crackers!
Miz Helen
Monday 23rd of October 2017
What a great collection of Vegan Appetizer Ideas, I pinned this post! Thanks so much for sharing with us at Full Plate Thursday. Have a great week and come back to see us real soon! Miz Helen
Sue Ready
Monday 23rd of October 2017
a nice variety of appetizers and look easy to put together
Julie N
Sunday 22nd of October 2017
This all looks super delicious! What a great post!
Carrie Ditton
Wednesday 18th of October 2017
I love that this gives me options for the parties that I host to keep the vegetarians in my family happy as well! We just started the Whisk It Wednesday link party and I thought you might be interested in sharing there too! Thanks, Carrie
Helen at the Lazy Gastronome
Tuesday 17th of October 2017
It all looks so good!! It's amazing how many great dishes you can make without any animal product. Thanks for sharing at the What's for Dinner party! Hope you were able to check out some of the other awesome recipes there too!