Vegan Summer Recipes (Dinners & Desserts)

We start this vegan summer list with an idea for vegan nibbles; vegan egg salad served on crunchy slices of cucumber. No cooking is required and very refreshing, this vegan egg salad takes just 10 minutes to prep with easy-to-find ingredients.

A must-have for a barbecue night. This vegan tzatziki is perfect with focaccia, toasted bread, and veggie sticks as a light and quick starter.

Homemade guacamole is probably the best dip in the world. Tasty, healthy, and a crowd-pleaser, especially when served with some crunchy tortilla chips.

Vegan tuna is a quick and easy recipe made with mashed chickpeas. It's fun to serve as an appetizer, stuffed in cherry tomatoes or in leaves of lettuce.

Mini pizzas are one of the most popular finger foods in Italy. They are usually served as a fun, crunchy starter, perfect for birthdays, buffets, and festive gatherings.

This vegan potato salad is a fresh and light side dish with herbs, lemon, and olive oil. It's naturally vegan and with our trick, you'll get a super creamy dressing that we are sure you'll love!

An easy pasta salad that you can make ahead before your guests arrive. Incredibly nutritious and full of healthy vitamins, and it's a super handy picnic recipe too.

A great way to serve plant-based protein is with this vegan lemon tofu. It takes just 10 mins to make and has a refreshing flavor that is perfect for those hot summer nights.

This vegan fish is soft, refreshing, juicy, lemony, and full of Mediterranean flavors. It's oven-baked with Italian seasoning and wrapped in parchment paper to concentrate its aroma and keep it juicy. The perfect replacement for white fish.

Panzanella salad is a traditional Italian summer dish made with simple seasonal vegetables and leftover stale bread and is one of the most underrated salad recipes.

This vegan chickpea salad is an easy and nutritious dish, perfect as a vegan side. Make it in just 15 minutes with simple, fresh ingredients and a refreshing lemon vinaigrette.

This is the perfect springtime and summertime dish. Tofu’s remarkable ability to get flavorful and crunchy makes it the ideal protein choice for this healthy yet delicious meal.

Our spinach pesto is an easy recipe that you can make in 5 minutes in a blender. Use the pesto with your favorite pasta, and grated lemon zest on top for a summer-friendly and light meal.

Caponata is an Italian eggplant salad with a delicious sweet and sour flavor. We make it with oven-baked eggplant (instead of deep-fried) in less than 45 minutes. A perfect side dish for summer and social events.

This is the original recipe for garlic and oil pasta, a delicious Italian meal also known as spaghetti aglio e olio. A delightful summer dinner, it's simple yet incredibly delicious.

This easy rice salad is adapted from the Italian rice salad and it's the perfect summer dish, easy to prepare in advance, and bring with you for a picnic outdoors. It's even better when served with our vegan mayonnaise.

Piadina is a thin yeast-free Italian flatbread that you can fill with anything you like and enjoy for a light lunch, snack, or dinner. Perfect for guests as they can choose their favorite fillings and get the vegan wrap, they want.

Couscous with vegetables is a delicious way of enjoying couscous. This is an easy side dish or main that you can make in less than 30 minutes, with seasonal veggies and herbs.

This zucchini pie is made with a soft a delicious crust that hugs an eggy, cheesy, zucchini filling. It's incredibly satisfying, indulgent, and yet so nutritious. A perfect summer pie that will please vegans as well as non-vegans.

This tomato cucumber onion salad is a crunchy, refreshing, simple dish that you can enjoy as a starter or as a side dish. Pick your favorite tomatoes, and for extra protein, add in fried and crunchy tofu.

This vegan couscous salad is easy, fresh, crunchy, and nutritious. Follow our recommendations or make it with your favorite veggies. A perfect summer meal for dinners or picnics.

Would you believe me if I told you that this eggless vegan frittata, made in 15 minutes with chickpea flour, is just as good as a traditional frittata? Serve it as a starter or side dish for friends or bring on a picnic, it's delicious.

Perfect for pizza night - this flatbread pizza recipe is easy to make with simple ingredients. You'll get flatbreads that are soft but with a crunch, and light to eat. Top with our vegan melted cheese for the most indulgent result.

Chickpea flour and oil make this quick and easy chickpea socca. It's perfect as a starter, snack, or even as dinner if you add toppings to it.

Vegan lemon pasta, or "spaghetti al limone" in Italian, is a simple creamy pasta recipe that is perfect for a quick and tasty lunch or dinner. It takes just 10 mins to make this scrumptious pasta dish.

These vegan stuffed bell peppers are easy to make, tasty, and fulfilling. You can fill them with your favorite grain and legumes, we show you several combinations below. Top with our vegan ricotta cheese for the best result.

This vegan eggplant parmigiana is a creamy and indulgent dish. It is super tasty, rich, creamy, and healthy since the eggplant is baked and not fried. As a cheese substitute, we use vegan homemade parmesan. Simple and affordable, yet incredibly satiating.

Roasted bell peppers are a delicious recipe that can be served as an antipasto, a side dish, or can be used as a base for many other recipes like salads and pasta. A colorful and healthy summer-dish.

Vegan Meringues are easy, crunchy, and light. Learn how to make them with 2 ingredients: aquafaba and sugar. These meringues take 10 minutes to make and 90 minutes to bake to perfection.

The perfect easy and light base for most summer desserts. You can use this custard in tarts, cakes, pastries, and other desserts. You can also flavor it with vanilla, lemon, chocolate, and much more. Here, we'll show you how.

This simple, 4-ingredients dessert almost tastes like a tiramisù, without the biscuit, but is a lot easier to make. It's creamy, soft, light, and sweet, but with an irresistible coffee aroma.

Our vegan panna cotta is similar to the original Italian panna cotta in both texture and flavour. When we first tried it we were surprised by how simple and delicious it is. You can make it in 10 minutes, without gelatine, dairy-free and nut-free.

This no-bake vegan cheesecake is the best! It's made with no-nuts, no-blending, no-cooking, and goes straight into the refrigerator to set. It's easy to make, smooth, fluffy, rich and creamy and it cuts perfectly.

These vegan lemon bars are easy to make, delicious, and full of lemon flavor thanks to a finger-licking vegan lemon curd.

Our filling is made of vegan homemade ricotta and is sweet and creamy. The shell is every bit as bubbly, light, and crisp as the traditional ones, but without eggs, lard, or butter.

This vegan lemon cake is soft, light, moist, and incredibly easy to make, with a few simple ingredients that you probably already have in your pantry.

This apricot tart is made with an easy-to-make pie crust, filled with frangipane, and packed with fresh apricots. It's such an easy tart to make, with simple ingredients, in under 1 hour.

This beautiful and delicious fruit tart is a classic Italian pastry recipe that everyone loves. We make a light, crunchy, and easy pie crust that we then fill with our dairy-free homemade custard.

Fruit pizza is an easy, fun, crunchy and refreshing recipe made with a quick, homemade sugar cookie pie crust base, topped with dairy-free cream cheese and a mix of fresh seasonal fruit.

This vegan lemon tart is a popular recipe that everyone will love. It's sweet, refreshing, and made with really simple ingredients that you already have in your pantry. You can make it with a soft crust or crunchy crust. We'll show you both.

This tart is made with a crunchy vegan pie crust, filled with smooth and creamy vanilla custard, and topped with sweet fresh strawberries. This recipe is so easy and delicious that you'll want to make it every day.