Whether you are a full-time vegetarian, a Meatless Monday participant, or an accommodating host, keep these vegetarian-friendly dinner ideas close at hand over the next couple of months. From spring risotto to roasted rhubarb, each menu features the bright and fresh flavors emerging from our forests, fields, and farms. It's a splendid time of year to cook and celebrate!
6 Vegetarian Dinner Menus for Spring
BRIGHT AND FRESH
• Fresh Pea Soup
• Spring Risotto with Asparagus and Fiddlehead Ferns
• Elderflower Lemon Cake
CHIVE TIME
• Radish, Boursin, and Chive Tartines
• Goat Cheese and Chive Gnocchi with Asparagus
• Roasted Rhubarb Clafouti
FORAGED FEAST
• Nettle Soup
• Quick Pasta with Dried Morels and Fresh Ramps
• Old-Fashioned Strawberry Shortcake
LEMON LOVE
• Meyer Lemon Spring Salad with Baby Greens, Herbs, Almonds and Goat Cheese
• Chickpea Casserole with Lemon, Herbs & Shallots
• Lemon Spongettes
PIZZA AND ICE CREAM
• Snap Peas with Meyer Lemon and Mint
• Spinach, White Bean, and Taleggio Pizza
• Hibiscus Berry Sundae
BRUNCH-STYLE
• Herb Garden Potatoes with Fresh Spinach & Lemon
• Spring Frittata with Asparagus & Radishes
• Poached Rhubarb Royale
Drink Ideas
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Here's what I would have...everything is very bright and vivid. It all seems a bit fancy, but is really fairly simple.
Beet & tarragon bisque. Prettily pink, and nice and sweet and earthy, like things growing in spring.
Asparagus and spinach quiche. vividly green, delicious, special but ready in an hour.
(I'd probably have a salad and some roast potatoes with it, but since you're sticking to three, I will too!)
For dessert I'd have ice cream with cookies with cadbury eggs in them. Ice cream because it's irresistible this time of year, and cadbury egg cookies because they're bright and colorful and delicious!!
Claire: I want to come eat at your house!
Charlotte - Okay! Come on by!
Unfortunately, the pea soup is not a vegetarian dish...