Cold Vegan Starter for Christmas Day Lunch

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Does anyone have any suggestions for a vegan starter. ?? The others will be having smoked salmon and salad.

Flavoured hummus?

Hummus and salad? Or Hummus, falafel and salad?

Gazpacho

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/tangy-roast-pepper-walnut-dip

Hummus, olives and nice bread sticks or oat cakes

How about this vegan riff on a prawn cocktail? It's v nice lucysfriendlyfoods.com/2015/12/29/cauliflower-cocktail-aka-veggie-prawn-cocktail/

We had a lovely mushroom pate on crackers with an onion relish last year - it was a bbc food recipe I think

Some sort of beetroot and walnut salad?

Mushroom pate
Mushroom crostini
Avocado toast
Avocado salad

These have a fairly festive feel:

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/sticky-shallot-fig-almond-filo-parcels

Would be nice with your salad and can be made in advance.

I love beetroot and walnut salad. Just the idea wants me hunger.

My mum makes a beetroot and walnut dip. Yummy.

https://www.everylastbite.com/beet-walnut-dip/

Melon is easy.

Noodle soup, takes 10 minutes and easy to prep the evening before.

Squeaky bean do a vegan salmon that's really delicious

This is really good. I did it a couple of Christmasses ago and everyone loved it.
veganonboard.com/vegan-mushroom-pate-recipe/

Some fantastic ideas … thanks all .

How fancy? We often do vegan egg mayo ( best prepped day before with a little loss spring onion) or chickpea smush ( similar to tuna mayo) served with crunchy bread or peri peri tofu which is forms tofu ( pressed) cut block in half score both sides and put peri peri sauce on both sides cook and serve cold as part of a salad or slivers ( like salmon) with lettuce cups ( or whatever)
None are showstopping to look at, but all go down really well

@Letmegohome how do you make your vegan 'egg' mayo please? Would be useful for a menu I'm planning

OP : a vegan friend once did very thinly sliced pineapple, laid out overlapping on a plate and lightly sprinkled with mint sugar. It was divine. You can serve it so that the plate looks the same as everyone elses, just with the pineapple replacing the salmon

@OMGitsnotgood , can I message you in the morning? It's bookmarked on my partner's phone .

@Letmegohome no rush, thank you

Faux Gras pate (very easy and was the favourite out of the trio of pates I did for Christmas last year!)

A company local to me make vegan scotch eggs which are incredible! I believe they do online orders. www.veglifeeats.com/

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@OMGitsnotgood that link might take you to the "front page" but you should be able to find it.
Black salt (don't take a big sniff!) is a little heavy for me as us the spring onions.
If we have it, it made the day before or that early morning so the flavours blend/develope.
Try making it few times so you can work out your version
(Apologies if link is a bit duff as I'm crap with linking!)

Agreed. We're having this for breakfast