Spruce up your next picnic or potluck with these 55 vegan recipes. I have included a full range of ideas from salads, sandwiches, potato salads, pasta, cookies, and desserts. You will surely have plenty of vegan picnic and vegan potluck ideas that everyone will love, including meat eaters!
Family picnics or work potlucks can be stressful for vegans. We want to bring something delicious and something everyone will love, vegans, vegetarians, and carnivores alike.
To help, I have compiled over 55 delicious vegan recipes for potlucks and picnics. The recipes are easy, and most are healthy. Each recipe has fresh flavors only vegetables can provide.
Vegan Picnic and Vegan Potluck Recipes
Vegan Eggplant Sandwich
This vegan eggplant sandwich is so delicious that you’ll keep making it over and over again. Layers of smoky eggplant and fresh vegetables are packed in panini bread, then toasted till perfection! Ideal for lunchboxes, picnics, and lunches on the go!
Visit Little Sunny Kitchen for the Recipe
Vegan Quinoa Salad
This healthy Vegan Quinoa Salad with Fresh Dill & Lime Vinaigrette is light and refreshing, yet high in protein. It’s perfect for a light lunch or a side dish for BBQs and picnics. Ready in under 20 minutes!
Visit Veggie Inspried for the Recipe
Avocado Pasta Salad
This Avocado Pasta Salad is one that'll be different than all the others on the cookout table. It's creamy, bright, packed full of (hidden) spinach, healthy pasta salad that just happens to be vegan friendly!
Visit Served From Scratch for the Recipe
Easy Vegan Macaroni Salad
This classic Vegan Macaroni Salad is so easy to make! No chopping required. The perfect potluck dish
Visit Veggie Inspired for the Recipe
Smoky Baked Vegan Pasta Bake
This Smoky Baked Vegan Pasta Bake is packed with all sorts of deliciously rich, melty, cheesy goodness. Perfect for your next Meatless Monday, or anytime you are craving a warm, comforting vegan casserole.
Visit Recipes From A Pantry for the Recipe
Strawberry Avocado Pasta Salad
Sweet, tangy, colorful, and fresh Strawberry Avocado Pasta Salad with poppy seeds is ready in under 20 minutes and a great side dish or mains for everyday eats or holiday gatherings.
Visit Budget Delicious for the Recipe
Fruit Salad With Poppy Seed Dressing
This 4 ingredient easy fruit salad recipe is the perfect spring and summer side dish! A colorful and flavorful array of delicious fruits and berries that comes together quickly and easily.
Visit Budget Delicious for the Recipe
Mango Avocado Salad
A refreshing mango avocado salad perfect for sunny picnic days. It's creamy, sweet, healthy, and a salad everyone will love.
Visit My Chefs Apron for the Recipe
Vegan Pasta Salad (Oil-Free Option)
Everyone's favorite classic pasta salad gets a vegan makeover in this recipe. Made with your choice of pasta, fresh veggies, chickpeas, vegan Parmesan, and Italian vinaigrette.
Visit My Quiet Kitchen for the Recipe
Sesame Ginger Noodle Salad With Cashews
Make cold sesame noodle salad once, and eat it all week! With abundant crunchy veggies and an easy flavor-packed Asian ginger dressing, this noodle salad recipe comes together with ease.
Visit Vanilla and Bean for the Recipe
Vegan Meatloaf
Flavorful and satisfying vegan meatloaf is classic comfort food with a meat-free twist. This vegan meatloaf recipe is perfect for weeknight dinners, special occasions, and holiday meals.
Visit Recipes From A Pantry for the Recipe
Savory and Simple Chickpea Salad Recipe
This simple chickpea salad recipe, with chopped cucumbers, carrots and a simple apple cider vinaigrette dressing, is a quick and nutritious lunchtime meal idea. Make a large batch on the weekend to enjoy at any picnic.
Visit Sustain My Cooking Habit for the Recipe
Vegan Lemon Cookies
These soft and delicious vegan lemon cookies are the perfect dessert for a summer picnic. They’re easy to make with almond flour and are topped with a tart lemon glaze that will leave you craving more!
Visit Savor the Spoonful for the Recipe
Blackberry Lemon Bread
This delicious and flavorful vegan blackberry lemon bread is easy to make and comes together quickly. The lemon loaf is filled with fresh blackberries, topped with a lemon glaze, and serves plenty of people at parties and events.
Visit Savor the Spoonful for the Recipe
Mini Cherry Pies
These mini cherry pies use oats, oat flour and coconut oil in the crust, making them naturally gluten-free and vegan! They transport great, making them ideal to bring to get-togethers.
Visit Texan Erin for the Recipe
Italian Green Bean Salad
Light and refreshing, this green bean salad features red onion, tomatoes, and zesty Italian dressing. It's a perfect side dish for parties and summer lunches.
Visit My Quiet Kitchen for the Recipe
Vegan Chicken Salad With Chickpeas
Creamy, crunchy with a hint of sweet, this Vegetarian and Vegan Chicken Salad recipe (aka chickpea salad with pecans and grapes) is a twist on the classic.It's delicious on a bed of greens shared with crackers, as a sandwich, cute little tea sandwiches or stuffed into pita bread.
Visit Vanilla and Bean for the Recipe
Tomato and Onion Salad with Peppers
This super EASY Tomato and Onion Salad gets an extra boost of flavor from vibrant, crunchy peppers. It’s a signature summer recipe that's absolutely perfect for summer picnics and potlucks. And, it only takes 5 minutes to make!
Visit Two Healthy Kitchens for the Recipe
Summer Fruit Salad with Rosewater Dressing
This vibrant Summer Fruit Salad is the perfect healthy and easy Summer meal. The aromatic Rosewater Dressing transforms this dish into a light dessert that everyone will love
Visit The Green Loot for the Recipe
Vegan Salad Recipe
This Vegan Salad mixes fresh lettuce, sweet potatoes, asparagus, cherry tomatoes, chickpeas, white beans, and cucumbers for an array of fun textures. A plate of diverse flavors ready in 25 minutes!
Visit Healthy Recipes 101 for the Recipe
2-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies (No Egg)
These easy, healthy peanut butter cookies are made with only 2 simple ingredients. They’re incredibly quick to make and are the perfect dessert for camping, picnics, potlucks, and parties! Make a double batch and you’ll have plenty to pass around.
Visit Savor the Spoonful for the Recipe
Zucchini Muffins
These savory zucchini muffins are perfect for a picnic or potluck. They are moist with a delicious basil flavor and super easy to make.
Visit Go Healthy with Bea for the Recipe
Vegan Mini Lemon Loaves
These bite-sized lemon cakes are easy to make with less than 10 ingredients. Soft, fluffy cakes topped with a zesty lemon icing
Visit Baked by Clo for the Recipe
Vegan Puff Pastry Tart
This vegan puff pastry tart is the perfect option for a quick, flavourful lunch with a vegan pesto base, topped with thinly sliced vine tomatoes and baked to perfection to give a golden oregano and poppy seed crust.
Visit A Mummy Too for the Recipe
Air Fryer Frozen Broccoli
This Air Fryer Frozen Broccoli recipe is a quick and easy side dish for dinner. Utilize your air fryer to cook crisp broccoli from frozen!
Visit Ambitious Foodie for the Recipe
Buffalo Cauliflower Bites
These Buffalo Cauliflower bites are baked bite-size pieces of crispy cauliflower that are slathered with buttery buffalo sauce and broiled to golden crispy perfection. These delectable vegan and vegetarian bite-size morsels are just as tasty as buffalo chicken wings, with a lot less fat and calories. This recipe makes a healthy and tasty appetizer, side dish, or salad ingredient.
Visit Small Town Woman for the Recipe
Lemony White Bean Dip
This Lemony White Bean Dip is creamy, garlicky, and so flavorful, you won’t be able to stop eating it! It’s gourmet but quick and easy to make with just 10 ingredients. Perfect for an appetizer or sharing plate, or even as a spread for sandwiches and pita.
Visit Rainbow Plant Life for the Recipe
Watermelon Cucumber Salad with Mint and Basil
This Watermelon Cucumber Salad with Mint and Basil is an easy, light, and healthy salad that’s perfect for picnics, barbecues, and al fresco dining. Made with crisp cucumbers, juicy watermelon, and fresh herbs, it’s a great alternative to traditional salads.
Visit Rainbow Plant Life for the Recipe
Ancient Grains Salad
This Ancient Grains Salad is made using a variety of fresh vegetables, herbs, three ancient grains, and is tossed in a flavorful homemade vinaigrette. It's a great recipe to make in advance and travels well to your next picnic or potluck!
Visit Planted in the Kitchen for the Recipe
Lemon Pepper Cauliflower Bites
The Veggie Wings Are Coated In A Delicious Sweet, Lemony Peppery sauce. A Perfect Plant-Based Summer Holiday Or Game Day Appetizer Or Weekend Dinner.
Visit The VGN Way for the Recipe
Dairy Free Spinach Artichoke Dip
This Dairy Free Spinach Artichoke Dip is the EASIEST appetizer to make and absolutely delicious. All you need is one bowl, 10 minutes to prep, and 6 simple ingredients
Visit Chelsea Peachtree for the Recipe
Instant Pot Vegan Baked Beans
A Perfect Blend Of Sweet, Savory, and Smokey Flavors. These Easy To Make Homemade Baked Beans Are A Classic Summer Cookout/ Barbecue Side Dish. Ready in under 30 minutes.
Visit The VGN Way for the Recipe
Texas Caviar [Avocado Corn and Bean Salad]
Fresh, vibrant, zingy, and flavor-packed Texas Caviar is a fully loaded Southwest/Mexican corn and bean salad with tomatoes, avocado, and red onion. It’s perfect for eating with chips or as a side at potlucks, picnics, BBQs, and as a quick last-minute side for any meal as it's ready in just 10 minutes!
Visit Plant Based on a Budget for the Recipe
Vegan Sweet Potato Salad (Dairy-Free Potato Salad)
This dairy-free, vegan sweet potato salad uses vegan mayo and is loaded with veggies and add-ins for a BBQ, potluck, and picnic side dish that’s creamy, sweet, savory, crunchy, and ready to impress!
Visit Plant Based on a Budget for the Recipe
Vegan Egg Mayo Sandwich
Vegan egg mayo is one of the easiest recipes out there! With no prep time needed, this recipe makes a perfect sandwich for a picnic. So yummy too!
Visit Vegan Punks for the Recipe
Vegan Coleslaw without Mayo (GF,DF, Vegan and Top 8 Free)
This colourful coleslaw in a vinaigrette dressing is perfect for any picnic or potluck. It is vega, gluten-free, and free from the top 8 allergens,s making it the perfect sharing dish.
Visit Allergen Free Kitchen for the Recipe
Mediterranean Pearl Couscous Salad
This simple Mediterranean pearl couscous salad is bright, delicious, and packed with flavors like olives, tomato, cucumber, and red onions—perfect for serving as a healthy side or main at home, picnics, BBQ, potlucks, and in lunch boxes!
Visit Plant Based on a Budget for the Recipe
Mango Pico de Gallo Salsa
This easy mango pico de gallo is a fresh salsa that's a perfect balance of sweet, savory, and spicy. With tangy lime juice, ripe tomato, sweet mango, jalapeño, and cilantro, it's a perfect dip served with tortilla chips!
Visit Two Cloves Kitchen for the Recipe
Batata Harra (Lebanese Spicy Potatoes)
Batata Harra, "spicy potatoes" in Arabic, are oven roasted and then tossed in spicy cilantro garlic and crushed red pepper sauce. You can finish this flavor-packed sauce with a squeeze of fresh lemons for a fresh flavor.Â
Visit Sinful Kitchen for the Recipe
Lebanese Rice Pilaf with Vermicelli
Lebanese vermicelli rice (riz b sha’riyeh) is a simple three-ingredient Middle Eastern staple made with rice and vermicelli pasta. This recipe is easy to make and is so versatile that you can enjoy it as the perfect side dish with all cuisines.Â
Visit Sinful Kitchen for the Recipe
Tanghulu Candied Fruit Skewers
Tanghulu, candied fruit, is a popular Chinese street food. Made with just about any fruit in less than 20 minutes, this fruit candy is beautiful and delicious! Â
Visit Sinful Kitchen for the Recipe
Vegan Apple Crumble (Vegan Crisp)
Filled with cozy apples and a delicious crumbly topping, this easy vegan apple crumble is comfort food for your soul! This dairy-free vegan crisp recipe has soft cinnamon spiced apples and a crisp topping.
Visit Sinful Kitchen for the Recipe
Easy Greek Cucumber Salad
Packed with Mediterranean flavor, this easy ten-minute Greek Cucumber Salad is the perfect dish to freshen up your day! Made with simple ingredients, fresh produce, kalamata olives, and traditional or vegan feta cheese; this easy salad will be a family favorite.
Visit Sinful Kitchen for the Recipe
Authentic Turkish Pide Bread Recipe
Turkey is known worldwide for their flatbreads, especially traditional Turkish pide bread. Also known as Ramazan pidesi, this bread is fluffy, light, and irresistible. Prepared in less than 2 hours, this easy no-knead pide bread recipe will become your homemade bread go-to.
Visit Sinful Kitchen for the Recipe
Spinach and Lentil Parcels
These little spinach and lentil parcels are perfect picnic food, and make a lovely healthy vegan lunch. They are quite robust, so hold together well and can be eaten easily with your fingers.Â
Visit Cinnamon and Kale for the Recipe
Egg Free Potato Salad
Egg Free Potato Salad is our mouthwatering vegan take on a picnic and potluck staple. This perfect sharing dish is free from animal products and gluten-free and free from the top 9 allergens.
Visit The Allergen Free Kitchen for the Recipe
Classic Guacamole Recipe
This classic guacamole recipe with lime is a fresh, tangy, and creamy dip that's easy to make and perfect for serving alongside tacos for the family or bringing to a potluck with friends. It's a versatile recipe that can be personalized with different herbs and spices, and the article includes tips on how to choose ripe avocados, prevent the guacamole from turning brown, and how to make it ahead of time.
Visit Clan Kitchen for the Recipe
Air Fryer Fried Ravioli
Toasted Ravioli in the Air Fryer! It is, in fact, a real thing. That popular snack is usually deep-fried but now lightened up by using an air fryer! There’s no grease, and there’s scarcely any fuss.
Visit Cooking School Dropout for the Recipe
Four Bean Salad
This easy four bean salad is simple and delicious. With a tangy vinaigrette it's packed with flavor and plant based protein. Perfect fora picnic or pot luck.
Visit Aussie Home Cook for the Recipe
Vegan Halloumi and Spinach Borek
Easy vegan halloumi & spinach borek are a twist on Turkish filo parcels, which are perfect for a picnic or sharing with friends.
Visit The Vegan Lunchbox for the Recipe
Lemon Artichoke Orzo Salad
A delicious & healthy Mediterranean pasta salad full of bright flavors & textures with artichoke hearts, chickpeas, olives, sun-dried tomatoes & plant-based feta in a citrusy lemon basil dressing.
Visit The Carrot Underground for the Recipe
Vegan Bounty Bars
If you love coconut, you will love these easy vegan bounty bars, which are really just chocolate-covered coconut bites. They are divine! The perfect snack.
Visit The Vegan Lunchbox for the Recipe
Vegan Toffee
Searching for an easy, crowd-pleasing dessert? Look no further than this irresistible vegan toffee made with graham crackers, chocolate, and nuts…aka vegan crack!
Visit Plant Powered Livin for the Recipe
Chowmein
Chowmein is the Indian version of stir fried vegetable noodles in Chinese sauce. A great crowd pleaser loved by grown-ups and kids.. easy to make for big gatherings and carry for picnics.
Visit Food Trails 25 for the Recipe
Instant Pot Pesto Pasta
nstant Pot Pesto Pasta is one of the simplest pasta to make. This delicious vegan recipe does not take hours and hours in the kitchen to prepare. Instant pot will do everything for you in a few minutes.
Visit Corrie Cooks for the Recipe
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