Vegan Potluck Dishes

Written by
Ashley Adams
Ashley Adams is a restaurant professional and workshop instructor with a specialty in dairy-free cooking and baking.
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Ashley Adams
Updated 02/11/19

From appetizers and dips to salads, sides, and desserts, you'll find vegan recipes to bring to your vegan potlucks, picnics, and outdoor parties in the collections of vegan recipes below.

These are some of our favorite vegan potluck recipes.

  • 01 of 05

    Vegan Appetizers and Dips

    Dehydrated kale chips

    The Spruce

     

    Dips and tasty finger foods are staples at vegan potlucks for a reason: they're easy to make, easy to share, and really good. 

  • 02 of 05

    Vegan Main Dishes

    Spicy Indian Lentils
    Spicy lentil dahl.

    The Spruce 

    Bringing a main dish or entree to a potluck is always a little tricky; it has to either be something easy to transport like a pasta salad, or it has to be something that you can prepare ahead of time and then cook up on site without too much hassle. 

  • 03 of 05

    Vegan Desserts

    Vegan Dairy-Free Banana Chocolate Brownies

    The Spruce

    Brownies, cakes, cookies, cupcakes, pudding parfaits--all are fair game at a potluck. Most of these traditional recipes contain dairy and eggs, but it's actually pretty simple to replace these if you have the right recipe. This collection of Vegan Desserts will give you over 50 ideas on how to sweeten your vegan potluck. 

  • 04 of 05

    Recipes for Vegan Kids

    Celery and peanut butter
    Celery and peanut butter. LauriPatterson / Getty Images

    Even vegan kids are actually pretty easy to please food-wise; just make something that's tasty and fun to eat! For kid-friendly favorites, browse through these two collections of vegan recipes:

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  • 05 of 05

    Best Vegan Beers

    La Fin Du Monde beer
    La Fin Du Monde beer. Antti T. Nissinen / Flickr / CC By 2.0

    It's true -- not all beers are vegan. But there are many wonderful beers that are! If you're scrambling to bring something to an adult potluck but have no time to cook or bake, just pick up one of these Top 5 Vegan Beers.