Vegan Appetizer Ideas for a Grilling Show: Delicious and Vegetarian-Friendly"

[kristin_pchef]

I'm doing a grilling show next weekend -- the hostess is a vegetarian, and one of the guests is a vegan. The hostess is very conscious about wanting to make sure that the vegan guest can eat most of the food that we make. We're going to do a vegan pizza, but I'm looking for a yummy appetizer (other than just grilled veggies) that we can do as an appetizer. I was going to do the avocado salsa cups, but the hostess doesn't really like tomatos (tomatoes??)

Does anyone have any ideas for a good vegan app? It doesn't have to be on the grill, necessarily.

Thanks!! :chef:

 

[babywings76]

Mango Confetti Salsa is really good!

 

[wadesgirl]

Mango Confetti Salsa is really good!

I was going to say the same thing!

 

[Blondechick]

(this was an accidental double post, and I can't figure out how to delete it)

 

[Blondechick]

Vegan means no meat, dairy or animal by-products (such as honey). Any salsa recipe could work. In many cases you can get vegan equivalent ingredients. Recipes with Cheese might be tricky because vegan cheese is not the same as regular cheese, but the vegan customer would be a good resource to tap about that.
If you have the French Fry cutter, what about making fries?
There is this recipe http://www.pamperedchef.biz/images/en_US/news/recipes/pdf/recipe11.pdf where the only non vegan ingredient is asiago cheese. You can have your host try and find a substitute for that.
the Tapenades you could easily do as well. http://new.pamperedchef.com/recipe/98527 This one is tasty!
California Spring rolls http://new.pamperedchef.com/recipe/89267 you can easily make without shrimp and get vegan mayonaise.

 

[minirottie]

Since I'm in love with the tapenades, I'd recommend them as well...I've done the roasted red pepper/sun dried tomato and the artichoke one..they were HUGE hits at 2 parties