Appetizers Archives - Healthy Green Kitchen

Cucumber Sandwich

This easy cucumber sandwich recipe is perfect for a light lunch or as an elegant party food. The satisfying crunchy texture is complimented by a wonderful herb spread that will make your mouth water.

This homemade bruschetta is an outstanding appetizer or snack that combines homemade olive oil bread with a rich, savory tomato topping. It's perfect for dinner parties or summer picnics and tastes even better using in-season tomatoes.

Beet Carpaccio

This beet carpaccio is an easy and healthy vegan alternative to the traditional dish. It’s fresh and delicious with a slightly sweet and earthy flavor. You can serve beet carpaccio as an appetizer, side dish, or even atop a salad.

You'll love these vegan summer rolls with a fresh mango dipping sauce and a creamy peanut dipping sauce. The perfect lunch or snack for the warm months

Summer Rolls with Dipping Sauce 2 Ways

You’ll love these vegan summer rolls with a fresh mango dipping sauce and a creamy peanut butter dipping sauce. The

Patatas Bravas covered in tomato sauce and drizzled with mayonnaise and green herbs close up.

Lightened Up Patatas Bravas (Spanish Potatoes)

This addictive Spanish starter has been given a healthier twist without sacrificing flavor. Quartered new potatoes are perfectly roasted with olive oil, sea salt, and black pepper. The bravas sauce, made with chopped tomatoes, garlic, onion, smoked paprika, and a touch of cayenne pepper for heat, is cooked to a smooth consistency to make the perfect dish.

close up image of a pesto hummus in a round plate with pita chips

Green Basil Pesto Hummus with Roasted Garlic Pita Chips

Homemade hummus can be thrown together in a matter of minutes and makes the perfect snack for those 3pm cravings when you just don't have time to make anything.

Blueberry Caprese Salad

Savor the summer with this twist on the classic Caprese salad. Blueberry Caprese Salad combines juicy blueberries, soft buffalo mozzarella, watercress, and basil, dressed in extra virgin olive oil, salt, and pepper. This light dish is perfect as a refreshing side or atop crusty bread for a wholesome meal.

Bacon-Wilted Greens with Warm Goat Cheese

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Pomegranate, Green Olive and Cilantro Relish + How to Keep Herbs Fresh

Disclosure: This post is sponsored by Glad in conjunction with their #SAVEITSUNDAY program. With #SAVEITSUNDAY, Glad hopes to educate the

Cinnamon Sugar Kale Chips

Cinnamon sugar? On kale chips? I assure you I was incredulous when I first saw this recipe, too. But trust

Baked Endive with Herbs from Healthy Green Kitchen

Baked Endive with Anchovies and Thyme

*Disclosure: I am so pleased to be working with the wonderful folks from California Endive Farms again. I receive complementary

Guacamole with Pistachios

Jen Schall is a dear blogger friend, and soon she’ll be having a baby girl! I’m just thrilled for Jen

Grilled Endive Caprese Salad

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Maple Butternut Squash and Parsnip Soup

I was going to do a “top 11 of 2011” post, but now that we’re a couple of days into

Endive, Kale, and Smoked Salmon Salad with Avocado and Pink Grapefruit

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Discover Endive. I received a complimentary box of California

Savory Pink Grapefruit Salad

I don’t want to tell you how many cookies I ate at the cookie swap and in the days that

Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Cream and Aleppo Pepper

Give me Brussels sprouts boiled to tender perfection, drizzled with olive oil, and showered with coarse sea salt, and I

Fall Garden Salad with Apples and Walnuts

I ate this fall garden salad, or something pretty close to it, every day last week. I simply could not

Southeast Asian Tomato and Cucumber Salad

I grew all sorts of heirloom tomatoes this summer. Some were sliced, sprinkled with salt, then gobbled: leaving nothing but

Heirloom Tomato and Goat Cheese Terrine

The August Charcutepalooza Challenge was to make a molded terrine. Cathy and Kim gave us the choice of using emulsified

Roasted Tomatoes with Fontina and Thyme

Sliced tomatoes, garlic, olive oil, thyme, and fontina cheese. That’s all you need to create the skillet full of deliciousness

Black Barley, Purslane and Watermelon Salad

I featured watermelon in this recipe just last week. I wouldn’t normally showcase it again so soon, but this salad

Spicy Cucumber Salad

I am hosting weekend herb blogging this week! If you’d like to participate, you can find more information here. My

Indian Inspired Guacamole

I am pretty much head over heels in love with Heidi Swanson’s new cookbook: Super Natural Every Day: Well-loved Recipes

Black Quinoa and Red Lentil Salad with Parsley

I dreamed this salad up last week, thinking it would be perfect for Passover. Turns out there’s a lot of

Hot Smoked Salmon (Charcutepalooza Challenge #4)

This month for Charcutepalooza, Cathy and Kim challenged us to make either hot smoked salmon or hot smoked pork loin/pork

Roasted Cauliflower with Garlic and Mint

Cauliflower: I owe you an apology. In almost two years of writing about my favorite foods on this blog, I’ve

Winter Citrus Millet Taboulleh

Taboulleh (also spelled tabouli, tabouleh, and tabbouli) is a classic Middle Eastern salad that generally contains chopped vegetables, herbs, and

Oven Braised Endive with Gremolata

Endive is extremely nutritious: it is low in calories, yet high in fiber, B vitamins, vitamin C, copper, potassium, and

Latkes

Hanukkah begins tonight…time for latkes! Latkes are potato pancakes that are fried in oil. They are a traditional Hanukah food,

Roasted Tomato Soup

When it comes to comfort food, I don’t think much compares to a bowl of tomato soup (especially when it’s

Radishes with Herbs, Sungold Tomatoes and Strawberries

Despite a rocky start earlier in the month, my participation in the NY Locavore Challenge is going much better now.

Spicy Crispy Kale with Lime

I’m a huge fan of kale. If you follow this blog, you know that I include kale in my recipes,

Arugula Salad with Pomegranate, Avocado and Goat Cheese

I’m struggling to write something really interesting about this Arugula Salad with Pomegranate, Avocado and Goat Cheese. I’ve erased the

Roasted Beet Salad with Greens and Candied Pecans

This roasted beet salad with candied pecans is another great fall salad. I served this with our Thanksgiving dinner. I

Roasted Vegetables with Cardamom

Thanksgiving has now come and gone. At my home, we enjoyed a great dinner; I hope that you did, too.

Agnes’ Celery Root, Kale and Wild Rice Soup

Good thing I love soup; I’ve certainly eaten a lot of it this week! Today at Healthy Green Kitchen we’ve

Pan Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Pears

I very much look forward to the appearance of Brussels sprouts in my local markets; they are one of my

Eggplant and Feta Salad

I absolutely adore eggplant. I like roasted eggplant, grilled eggplant, stuffed eggplant, and eggplant in ratatouille, but I think my

Cabbage Salad With Cilantro and Toasted Almonds

This fresh and flavorful Asian Cabbage Salad is a nice variation on coleslaw.

Israeli Couscous Greek Salad Recipe

This is a beautiful and delicious Greek salad recipe. If you’ve never tried Israeli couscous before, it’s a bit like

Kabocha Squash Soup

It’s definitely Spring, but we’re still having some chilly days every now and then, and when we do, I always