Sauces, Dips & Spreads

A gourmet French buerre blanc sauce with blood oranges and completely vegan, dairy-free and cholesterol-free.

A quick and easy spinach dip recipe made from just five ingredients. This spinach dip is a five-star user reviewed recipe.

A simple yet elegant vegan basil lime sauce simmered stovetop. Use as a topping for pasta, risottos or veggies.

Add some tofu to a cream cheese and sun-dried tomato dip. If you're trying to boost your protein and add some soy to your diet, here's one simple recipe to try.

Trying to add more soy to your diet? Try this simple edamame dip, served with crisped pita for a low-fat and healthy way to add some green edamame to your diet.

Why make a homemade vegan Nutella? Have you caught yourself reading the labels endlessly on all the chocolate hazelnut and chocolate peanut butter spreads hoping one of them is dairy-free and vegan? Don't lie, I know you have; we all have dreams of a vegan Nutella. But it's super easy to make your own homemade Nutella, or chocolate hazelnut spread. If you can't find hazelnuts, walnuts or cashews will work, but don't taste quite like real Nutella.

A vegetarian recipe for seven layer dip with ranch dressing for a bit of variety on the usual 7 layer dip recipes.

A variety of bean dip recipes to try from basic to gourmet! Vegetarian bean dip is a classic appetizer that just about everyone loves. Several of these bean dip recipes are vegan as well.

Use your leftover Halloween pumpkin seeds to make an elegant vegan pesto. Serve your pumpkin seed pesto on cracker or toss with pasta for a vegan pesto pasta.

A creamy guacamole recipe with sour cream, chipotle chilis and fresh cilantro. This easy guacamole recipe is more like a sour cream dip than a traditional guacamole, but it is still bursting with fresh Mexican flavors.

Spicy Thai Peanut Sauce with Sesame Oil

A collection of easy guacamole recipes to try. If you're looking for the perfect avocado dip, you'll find a variety of guacamole recipes here, whether you want a quick and easy recipe that you can whip up in five minutes flat, or a traditional fire-roasted Mexican guacamole recipe, you'll find it here!

Two Cheese Pasta Sauce

This sweet mango and peach salsa is perfect with chips for a light snack, or add to a vegetable burrito for an unusual twist.

Vegan Tofu Sour Cream Recipe

It may seem a bit odd to put mayonnaise in guacamole, and I'll admit this recipe is by no means traditional! However, you don't really taste the mayonnaise. It just makes the guacamole smooth and creamy, which I love!

A fun and easy salsa recipe using lots of fresh summer fruits, including pineapple, oranges and strawberries. Take advantage of all the fresh seasonal fruit in the summer markets with this great twist on traditional Mexican salsa.

Black Bean Guacamole

Egg-Free Vegan Mayonnaise Recipe

Vegan Tartar Sauce

Thai peanut sauce is great on noodles or as a salad dressing and kids love it!

Easy Vegan Spinach Dip Recipe

Nutty Grapefruit Flavored Cream Cheese

Spicy Southwestern Fondue

Orange and Pecan Flavored Cream Cheese Recipe

Spicy Vegan Olive Tapenade

Easy Cirus Salsa Recipe

Thai Peanut Sauce with Ginger

"Meaty" Vegetarian 7 Layer Dip

Vegan 7 Layer Dip

A quick and easy vegetarian 7 layer dip recipe, with sour cream, taco seasoning and refried beans. A classic vegetarian appetizer that kids will love as well as adults.

Black Bean Salsa

Fresh Guacamole with Cumin

Roasted Red Pepper Relish

Vegetarian Walnut and "Chicken" Pate Recipe

Vegetarian "Chicken" Pate

Ginger Apple Salsa Recipe

Chili Lime Baba Ganoush Recipe

Vegan Baba Ganoush with Parsley

This baba ganoush (eggplant dip) recipe has no oil and no tahini, making it a fat free vegetarian and vegan appetizer or dip that you can enjjoy any time! I like to spread a little baba ganoush on a flour tortilla with some lettuce and veggies for a quick and healthy low-fat vegetarian lunch.

Vegan Roasted Red Pepper Pesto Recipe

Vegan Basil Mayonnaise Recipe

Vegan Artichoke Pesto Recipe

Baba ganoush, a Middle Eastern spread and dip is similar to hummus, but is made with eggplant instead of chickpeas (garbanzo beans). This vegetarian and vegan recipe is particularly hummus-like, since it uses some chickpeas for a thicker texture.

Olive tapenade is a great spread to serve with crackers for an easy appetizer or hor d'ouerves. This recipe is both vegetarian and vegan, and can be prepared in just a few minutes.

Vegan Walnut Mushroom Pate

Herbed Mushroom Pate Recipe

Eggless Vegan Mayonnaise Recipe

Avocado and olive dip makes for an easy yet interesting vegetarian appetizer or vegan dip. This quick video recipe shows you how to make it. Serve with chips or crackers.

Crock Pot Hot and Spicy Artichoke Dip

Vegan Tzatziki Recipe

Easy Baba Ghanoush Recipe

This is a basic recipe for an easy cheese and wine fondue. You'll find that it is simpler and with less ingredients than other fancier recipes, yet tastes just as great!

As a vegan, I'm often disappointed to attend events that serve nothing but the same ol' veggies and ranch dressing, mini-meatballs and cheese and crackers. If you've got a party or a meeting coming up, serve some appetizers or munchies that all your guests can eat!

Easy and basic reipce for homemade guacamole.

An easy homemade guacamole recipe made with red onions and grapefruit.

A roux, also known as a white sauce has many uses in cooking, from thickening a gravy, soup or stew to the base for a French cream sauce.

An Indian-inspired tomato sauce recipe to serve over pasta or rice.

Salsa is one of those foods that is so simple and easy to make homemade and fresh at home, that once you try it, you'll wonder why you ever bought it pre-made at the store.

This basic dipping sauce is perfect to serve with egg rolls, spring rolls, or to use as a sauce for stir-fries.

Keep your raw food diet free of cooked ingredients with this simple recipe to replace the popular Nama Shoyu. A quick and easy recipe that will eliminate the need for Nama Shoyu in your raw food recipes.

This mushroom fondue has a cheesy flavor and is perfect for parties, as an appetizer or for a romantic meal for two.

The sweet tangy richness of the artichoke is complimented by the smoky flavor of the chipotle aioli dip.

Add this to a stir fry or pour over rice.

Turn to these raw food appetizer recipes when you are looking to transform ordinary produce into delightful dips and spreads. All of these recipes are suitable for a raw food diet and make dipping much more fun!

Use this vegan pesto recipe to dress up pasta, as a pizza sauce or as an appetizer with bread and crackers.

Miscellaneous tofu recipes - Tofu sauces, substitutes

White cream sauce for pizza recipe

Vegan snack ideas - including healthy snack ideas and not so healthy snack ideas!