Recipes: Starters and Snacks

The possibilities are endless, such as soups, salads, pates, patties, pakora, falafel, samosas, stuffed vine leaves, bhajis: all without egg or dairy milk in sight.

Here are some starter recipes to get you going. Use whatever quantities of ingredients work for you, if not specified, as many recipes are very versatile. The recipes for sides and sauces can also be used in starters.

instant pate

This recipe can be varied as much as your imagination and available ingredients will allow.

  • Ingredients: 1 ripe avocado, 1 drained tin of butter beans, 1 small fennel bulb, 1/2 red pepper, handful of cashew nuts, handful of raisins, dash of hot pepper seasoning
  • chop and blend all the ingredients together, to a paste.
  • serve with toast, panini, rice cakes, etc. Or as sauce on noodles, pasta, etc.

Stephen's lettuce carbonara

Very yummy. Could also be a side dish.

  • ingredients: Lettuce, veggie bacon / smoked tofu chopped small, grated Cheezly or yeast flakes, ground coriander, avocado/olive oil, Mirin (rice wine vinegar) or similar (eg balsamic)
  • mix all together and serve.

mini pizzas

you don't have to have Redwood's super melting cheezly to make dairy-free pizza. Try this.

  • Ingredients: pizza dough / bread / Pitta bread(unopened), concentrated tomato puree, herbs, seasoning, cheezy sauce 1 (see below), and any of, for example: olives, onions, pine kernels, sliced tomato, red pepper, broccoli, pineapple
  • spread dough / bread with puree and herbs
  • chop toppings as necessary and sprinkle over, topped with cheezy sauce.
  • bake until sizzling in a med/hot oven, serving in small pieces immediately.

scrambled tofu

very like scrambled egg without the cholesterol

  • Ingredients: mashed tofu, mashed sweet-corn (optional), parsley/herbs, spices and nutmeg; optionally: curry powder/sauce
  • mash together, fry in oil, and serve on bed of crisp lettuce, and cress perhaps.

cauliflower and cream of almond soup

tastes very posh and creamy.

  • Ingredients: 1 1/4 pints of water, 1 small cauli divided into tiny florets, 1 finely chopped medium onion, 100g skinned almonds (skin them yourself after boiling briefly), 2 finely chopped sticks of celery, 30 ml oil, salt & pepper, grated nutmeg.
  • poach cauli in the water until tender (c. 5 mins)
  • fry onions, almonds, celery in oil until almonds fairly well browned (5-6 mins)
  • add water that cauli was cooked in, bring to boil and simmer for 5 mins.
  • liquidise and return to pan adding florets, salt & pepper.
  • sprinkle each serving with grated nutmeg.

Recipe Listings

Recipes are listed under breakfast ideas, starters, mains, sides and sauces, desserts and cakes. However, ideas can be mixed around between courses. More recipes will be added to each section as time goes on.