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Appetizers

Choosing the right appetizer recipe is important! It can set the mood for your entire meal and should be considered with care. Here, Tori has shared recipes to suit a variety of different meals and dietary restrictions, with lots of options for vegans, vegetarians, gluten-free diners, and more. Many are inspired by the Mediterranean Diet – like Stuffed Figs with Goat Cheese, Roasted Eggplant Matbucha, and Sriracha Seared Salmon Cakes.

Appetizers recipes also work great as finger foods or canapés, and can be eaten all on their own – especially at a party. They’re typically portable, easy to handle, and you rarely a fork to enjoy them. They allow you to taste a large variety of foods in one sitting. 

In this collection, you’ll find unique, savory, sweet, delicious, and healthy appetizer recipes, sure to start your meal on a high note!

Roasted Beets with Tahini and Pine Nuts served over greens on a plate.

Roasted Beets with Tahini and Pine Nuts

White bean basil pesto hummus on wooden plate, surrounded by pine nuts, bell pepper, grape tomatoes, and breadsticks.

White Bean Basil Pesto Hummus

A white bowl of baba ganoush drizzled with olive oil and garnished with parsley sits on a rustic platter, surrounded by slices of pita bread.

Classic Baba Ganoush

Fig Preserves on a small orange square-shaped bowl with a silver butter spreader knife

Spiced Fig Preserves

A colorful salad featuring kale, sliced pears, and dried cranberries on a white plate

Kale, Pear and Cranberry Salad

A bowl of Creamy Broccoli Tahini Soup garnished with a dill sprig.

Creamy Broccoli Tahini Soup

A bowl of egg salad garnished with dill sits on a wooden table. Nearby are sliced tomatoes, lettuce, seeded bread, turquoise jars, and a wooden spoon over a striped napkin.

Lightened Up Egg Salad

Two white plates containing square slices of vegan spanakopita.

Vegan Spanakopita

A white plate filled with falafel balls next to a bowl of tahini sauce.

Falafel

Overhead shot - spinach strawberry salad on a light blue plate topped with maple balsamic dressing, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries and pistachios in foreground. Table set with fork and gray and white stripe linen napkin. Garnish of four small strawberries and two blackberries, and a small glass carafe bottle with maple balsamic dressing, in background.

Strawberry Spinach Salad Recipe

Green bean salad with walnuts and parmesan as garnish on a white bowl.

Green Bean Salad

Horizontal close up - Pile of freshly baked pita breads on a plate, striped blue and white linen napkin in foreground, two small dishes of dip in background - hummus and yogurt dip - with a wooden spoon and a flour canister in the background, as well.

Sourdough Pita Bread

Horizontal shot - shallow bowl filled with roasted beet salad with kale and goat cheese. Fork and striped linen napkin beside the bowl. Partial view of another salad bowl filled with salad, fork, and napkin in background. All resting on a white marble countertop.

Roasted Beet Salad with Kale and Maple Balsamic

Featured wide horizontal shot - a bowl of roasted eggplant salad with red peppers in a white bowl on a white marble countertop. Fresh tomatoes, dish of olive oil peppers and pita in the background.

Roasted Eggplant Salad

Overhead tilted horizontal shot of two white bowls filled with fig salad - fresh fig halves tossed with dark green curly kale, fried halloumi cheese, and walnuts. Linen napkins and fork, two wooden spoons for serving decorate the white marble countertop, alongside fresh fig halves scattered beside the bowls.

Fig Salad with Halloumi and Kale

Vertical shot of a slice of spanakopita on a white plate, a baking dish filled with the remaining spanakopita is sitting in the background.

Easy Spanakopita

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