Vegetarian Recipes





If you're having a dinner party or some other event where you're hoping to impress people (especially if those people aren't vegetarian), try these gourmet vegetarian recipes - guaranteed to look beautiful and taste delicious. You are sure to impress your non vegetarian friends with these vegetarian recipes, and they will never even know they are eating vegetarian with this full course meal plan. Let's begin with appetizers.

Antipasto

Antipasto, which means "before food" in Italian, is a salad-like appetizer consisting of various fresh and pickled vegetables, cheeses, and rolled or sliced meats. For most vegetarian gourmet recipes antipasto, you can either substitute mock meat products or leave them out altogether.

Broiled Ricotta Gnocchi

Gnocchi are usually treated like a variety of pasta and served with sauce. But these broiled ricotta gnocchi are great served plain or as dumplings. You can buy gnocchi at the supermarket or make them yourself. This is a very easy vegetarian recipe to master. And on to .....Soup & Salad!

Bean Salad with Walnuts and Feta

When you cook your own beans, they are one of the healthiest things out there, and they are delicious with just a pinch of salt. They are also wonderful paired with feta and toasted walnuts, as in this simple bean salad. Now that is a gourmet vegetarian bean salad recipe there!

Carrot Vichyssoise

Rich, cold, and a lovely shade of orange, carrot vichyssoise swirled with a balsamic reduction will impress your friends and delight your taste buds - only you will know how simple it is to prepare. This is as gourmet vegetarian recipe as it gets with this soup recipe. For our main entrèe..

Spanish Tortilla with Zucchini

An amazing, melt-in-your-mouth potato and zucchini omelette. It does take a long time to prepare, but it tastes best at room temperature, so it's great for parties since you can make it the day before. This is just a vegetarian recipe variation of a pasta dish that began as a meat dish. Serve this with Bread and these sides:

Rosemary Focaccia

Rosemary focaccia, from Italy, is one of my favorite breads in the world, and the hardest part of this recipe is waiting for the dough to rise. You do not need to be vegetarian to enjoy this recipe.

Roasted Vegetables

Roasting vegetables brings out all kinds of flavor and depth. This vegetarian recipe is just a guide - feel free to add/subtract/substitute any vegetables you choose.

And last but not least we have everyone's (vegetarian or not) favorite... DESSERT!

Fruit Salad

There's nothing like a bowl of fresh, sweet fruit salad in the summer. No one really needs a recipe for fruit salad, just use your faves and create your own gourmet vegetarian recipe.

Frozen Anisette Soufflè

Frozen soufflès make a nice, light dessert after a rich meal. This recipe calls for anise-flavored liqueur, but you could use another flavor like orange or hazelnut instead.

There are many variations and styles of vegetarian recipes. Feel free to experiment. After all that's how most vegetarian, gourmet or otherwise got their beginnings.