To ask what you’d cook for a vegan dinner party?

Any veggie dish that doesn’t involve dairy or honey. I’ve cooked Christmas dinner for a vegan for years on that simple principle.

I make a sort of shepherd’s pie that goes down very well. A base of red onions fried, add mushrooms, carrots, peas, flavoured lentils in a pouch, tinned toms, passata etc. Make a really tasty and flavoursome mixture.
Make a large pan of mashed potatoes - use oat milk and plant based marg with salt and pepper.
Put the sauce into a lovely baking dish. Add the mashed potato on top (pipe if poss) and make a pretty pattern. Cook it for approx 25 mins in oven to go a bit crispy on top. You can make it well in advance so no stress on the day. Mix the Potato water with gravy granules ( many are vegan).
Offer lots of veg to go with it.
Fruit salad with vegan ice cream for pud.

If you’re not a great cook, and stressed, why are you having a dinner party? Not being rude, but just wondering. I’m like you, but I’d never throw one for that reason!!
If you keep things really simple and prep in advance it makes things much easier. For example I suggested dark chocolate and avocado mousse. This could be made the night before and just and bits of white chocolate and raspberries after.

If its just with a few friends they wont mind if things dont go 100% to plan.

The only thing that op needs ti get right is checking all the ingredients are vegan, as I said earlier, this includes any alcohol.

Vegetable curry - something like chickpeas or butternut squash - with rice
Dark chocolate mousse (made with coconut milk) with a raspberry coulis

Who'd want a plateful of sloppy rice?

At least with vegan dishes there's no goat's cheese.

My DB is a lifelong veggie and would agree completely! He'd also add risotto to that list.

freekeh is a good alternative to rice.

Yes! I made it with broccoli and it was very good!

Mushrooms cooked in red wine and polenta. Rice can get rather monotonous.

This sounds objectively delicious even as a devotee like me to meat and dairy. I'm going to try it!!!

If you’re not a great cook, and stressed, why are you having a dinner party? Not being rude, but just wondering. I’m like you, but I’d never throw one for that reason!!

Anna Jones modern moussaka, switch the almond milk to soya or rice with nice bread and salad. And a sort of build your own Eton mess, using chicken pea water meringues, that way it's all done in advance so you just need to assemble and heat https://gasmarkfive.wordpress.com/2016/03/29/anna-joness-modern-moussaka/

I would ignore the voices above saying “no one pot meals like chilli/curry because they probably eat them all the time”

Choose something you can do a good job of whether it’s a one pot or not. People are coming to see you not to admire your Michelin level cooking. The main thing is that the food tastes nice and ticks the vegan box (and that’s already hard enough tbh), not that it’s impressive.

Personally I’d do a veg or chickpea curry and a variety of sides including an Indian style salad or slaw, a dal, fancy rice and some parathas (the frozen parathas you can buy are amazing and they are vegan !)

The curry sauces and pastes are too strong and recipes can have quite a harsh taste. I make my own from scratch now and it's good.

Is it? It took me years to make a good curry.

Thai or Indian food is very easy for vegans.

And I would serve a puff pastry (vegan) tart such as leek, with a home-made tabbouleh salad (using bulgur wheat).

Vegan? Oh Lordy!
I’d buy it in, because even though I can cook I would be bound to mess up and include something I shouldn’t by accident. 😂
’Cook’ do some nice vegan stuff, apparently.

Because drinking milk once you're over weaning age (and from a different animal) is bloody weird.

M&S do a decent range of vegan foods (although some look rather processed). The confectionery looks nice and the vegans I know all have a sweet tooth. You can check the ingredients online to see if the products contain nuts. M&S also has a vegan recipe section on their website but again you will need to look out for nut content. Avoid the obvious fake meat/dairy products as PPs have advised. I believe you can pre-order to pick up or have it delivered. And I would buy a posh olive oil too.

www.marksandspencer.com/food/search?referrer=food-catalogue&searchTerm=vegan&searchRedirect=vegan+desserts

Guacamole and different breads
Fajitas with faux chicken or tofu or a variety of veg if they're the 'non-faux-meat' types
Chocolate cake with vegan ice cream or cream substitute or toffee sauce for pudding.

OR
Soup or an interesting salad with beans, good quality dressing and olives, seeds etc (check for allergies)

A creamy butterbean dish (loads of recipes online)!

A lighter pud, maybe a traybake or something from here? https://zardyplants.com/lifestyle/no-bake-vegan-desserts/

I would personally love this challenge!

My favourite vegan dessert is crumble made without butter.

I don't mind the items I mentioned, it's their ubiquity I object to.

Lentils and beans are good.
Something like ful medammes on a bed of saffron basmati rice with a side salad and flatbreads would be easy and a bit different.

Not everybody likes curry or chilli, and curries aren't particularly easy if you don't normally cook them.

https://shop.hammertown.com/blogs/journal/yotam-ottolenghis-multi-vegetable-paella-from-our-archives

This gets good reviews

Mexican!

Guacamole + salsa + vegan queso + vegan sour cream + chips

Chili

Roast veg / jackfruit tacos (other varieties here: https://www.delishknowledge.com/18-easy-vegan-taco-recipes-the-best/)

Churros (you can buy vegan ones from M&S or Ocado)

Mexican cinnamon-chocolate pudding (eg. https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1012538-vegan-chocolate-pudding-with-cinnamon-and-chile)