Vegetarian Condiment Recipes

 

Vegetarian Condiment and Sauce Recipe Collection

This collection of vegetarian condiment and sauce recipes is invaluable to any vegetarian cook. Sauces enable a cook to add the finishing touch to a wide variety of both sweet and savory dishes. A sauce, gravy, or simple glaze can make or break a good meal.

Keeping Sauces Hot:

Sauces to be served hot can be kept in a double boiler over hot water.

Hollandaise and other egg-based sauces should be kept over warm water, otherwise they will become thin or curdled.

TIP: I keep my sauces warm in a small thermos container. I can keep them warm for a couple of hours this way.  You can also make a sauce and travel with it.

Beverages

Basic Simple Syrup Recipe
Also know as Sugar Syrup, BarSyrup, and Rock CandySyrup, is nothing more than water and sugar. Itis the secret ingredient to the best cold homemade beverages, cocktails, and other drink recipes. With this recipe you can make as small or as large a batch as you wish and store it in the refrigerator in a well sealed bottle.
Butters

Butters

Beurre Monte Butter
Using just a little bit of water helps the emulsion process in preparing Beurre Monte. Whether you emulsify 4 tablespoons (2 ounces) or 1 pound of butter, just a tablespoon of water will do. Any amount of Beurre Monte can be made using this method.

Butter Ghee and Clarified Butter
Regular butter is made up of butterfat, milk solids, and water. Clarified butter and ghee are translucent golden butterfat left over after the milk solids and water are removed. In short, clarified butter is just butter that contains only pure butterfat. It has a higher smoke point than regular butter, thus allowing you to be able to cook at higher temperatures, and won’t spoil as quickly.

Flavored Butters (Compound Butters, Finishing Butter, or Beurre Compos/font>)
A compound butter is butter that has been flavored by blending softened butter together with various ingredients. These can be savory or sweet. These tasty butter spreads are ideal for tea bread, muffins, scones, and pancakes.

Truffle Butter
Truffle butter is an excellent and easy way to prepare wild truffles. Nothing is better than a perfectly cooked steak with some truffle butter on top before serving. The ways to use and eat this wonderful truffle butter are endless. Let your imagination be your guide!

Dessert Sauces

Preserved Lemons – Lemons Preserved in Salt

What are preserved lemons? A preserved lemon is a lemon that has been soaking in lemon juice and salt for a period of time. During this process, the lemon loses the bitter taste and becomes sweet. Preserved lemons are very powerful and can be used in a myriad of recipes.

Black Cherry Sauce

This Black Cherry Sauce is absolutely great on cakes and ice cream. Especially chocolate cakes!

Bourbon Butter Sauce

This sauce is sinful – so rich and wonderful! Absolutely great on cakes and ice cream.

Burnt Caramel Cream

Excellent served on pound cakes and over fresh fruit.

Caramel Sauce from vegetarian condiment and sauce collection being spooned onto a white plate

Caramel Sauce

You never need to buy prepared caramel sauce again! Making your own homemade caramel sauce is a lot easier than you might think, and it takes practically no time at all.

Caramelizing Sugar

Photo tutorial on how to caramelize sugar. Caramelizing sugar is a term most often applied to melting sugar until it becomes a caramel color liquid.

Chocolate Sauce – Perfect Chocolate Sauce

Making a great chocolate sauce couldn’t be easier! No vanilla and no sugar is added, just high-quality chocolate with cream, water, and a little butter to give just the right texture and taste. This truly is chocolate sauce perfection! Once you fall in love with this chocolate sauce, you might want to keep a jar of it handy in your refrigerator. The velvety sauce is amazingly versatile.

Chocolate Sauce – Diet Chocolate Sauce – A wonderful low fat, low calorie, and low carbohydrate chocolate sauce to serve over fruit, cake, etc.

Creme Fraiche piled into blue bowl

Creme fraiche

Commercial creme fraiche is quite expensive, so the homemade version is a life saver.

Dulce de Leche (Arequipe and Manjar Blanco)

Dulce de leche, pronounced DOOL-say duh LAY-chay) is a luscious sweetened milk sauce that is literally finger-linking good! The name means “milk sweet,” “milk jam,” and “sweet milk sauce.”

Hazelnut Creme Filling and Maple Creme Filling

Recipes are courtesy of Ellen Easton of Tea Travels. These are great filling for your home-baked Cream Puffs.

Lemon Curd

A British teatime favorite. This sweet, yet tart, velvety spread is heavenly on freshly baked scones, muffins, and tea breads.

Maple Sauce for Strawberries

Fresh strawberries are absolutely delicious when served with this Maple Sauce.

Marshmallow Fluff/Cream

This is the best recipe that I have ever found to substitute for the store-bought marshmallow fluff. It is very easy to make and so delicious. Use this homemade marshmallow fluff/cream in any recipe that calls for marshmallow fluff.

Mock or Faux Devonshire Cream

An easy-to-make mock Devonshire Cream. Great for your tea party.

Perfect Chocolate Sauce

Making a great chocolate sauce couldn’t be easier! No vanilla and no sugar is added, just high-quality chocolate with cream, water, and a little butter to give just the right texture and taste. This truly is chocolate sauce perfection! Once you fall in love with this chocolate sauce, you might want to keep a jar of it handy in your refrigerator. The velvety sauce is amazingly versatile.

Zabaglione with Fresh Berries

The French refer to this as Sabayon and it is used as a dessert or a sauce. It is light and refreshing and perfect as warm weather dessert.

Fruit Salad Dressings

1-2-3 Fruit Salad Dressing

The 1-2-3 Fruit Salad Dressing is from an older Betty Crocker Cookbook. The combination of citrus fruits in the dressing gives the fruits a wonderful delicious flavor!

Banana Fruit Salad Dressing

This Banana Fruit Salad Dressing is very refreshing and also low in calories. It is very light and compliments all fruits. You will never want to make a “yucky” canned fruit salad again!

Jams, Jellies and Relishes

Basic Berry and Fruit Puree

Simple basic fruit purees capture the sweet/tart balance of the summer fruit to use in fruit drinks, ice cream, sorbets, grantias, and whatever else you might want to use them in.

Rose Petal Jam

Enjoy this wonderful jam at your next Afternoon Tea Party.

Cajun Chow Chow Relish

A sweet, hot relish of pickled chopped vegetables. There are probably as many varieties of Chow Chow as there are Southern cooks.

Jalapeno Pepper Jelly

This wonderful recipe is by Brad Bolton of San Diego, CA. The jalapeno jelly is fantastic with cream cheese and triscuit crackers! It looks so pretty in red and green (for Christmas presents in pretty jelly jars).

Lavender Jelly

This exotic and gorgeously pretty lavender jelly will truly delight your taste buds with pleasure. In fact, you will absolutely LOVE the taste! It can be served as an unusual accompaniment to meats, such as lamb or poultry.

Rose Petal Jam

Enjoy this wonderful jam at your next Afternoon Tea Party.

Lavender Jelly

This jelly would be wonderful served as a dessert with ice cream, pudding, or cream.

Stilton Blue Cheese Relish

Wait until you try this delicious cheese relish!

Other Sauces

Cabernet-Cherry Sauce

Cocktail Sauce

Creole Tartar Sauce

From the recipe files of Robert Hammond, chef and owner of The Kitchen at Honeyman Creek Farm in Warren, Oregon.

Crema Agria

Crema Agria is Mexico’s version of sour cream. It can be found in some supermarkets in the dairy section, but if you cannot find it and do not want to simply substitute American sour cream, you can make it easily at home.

Dill Sauce

Faux Aged Balsamic Vinegar

Aged Balsamic Vinegar, or as it is known in Italy, tradizionale, accumulates its flavor in a variety of wooden casks for as long as one hundred years. The result is a very concentrated dark brown, thick sweet vinegar, and it is a great luxury. If you don’t have it in your pantry – chefs have learned to do as the Italians so – reduce your balsamic vinegar with a little brown sugar. It’s a good second. Great on beef, poultry, pork, and seafood!

Hollandaise Sauce

What would the famous Egg Benedict be without a great Hollandaise Sauce? Also great served on cooked asparagus.

Homemade Mayonnaise

According to Julia Child, mayonnaise is something every cook must confidently and rapidly whip up on command with nary a qualm, because it is one of the elemental cookery procedures.

Horseradish Sauces

Three easy-to-make horseradish sauces.

New Zealand Mint Sauce

After visiting New Zealand and tasting their wonderful mint sauces, I put together this mint sauce recipe. Very simple to make and so good!

Peppercorn Sauce

You’ll love the “zip” that the green peppercorns add to this sauce.

Pinot Gris-Dijon Sauce

Pinot Noir Butter Sauce

Roasted Garlic

Roasted garlic is milder than raw garlic. In fact, raw garlic is two to four times stronger in flavor. Garlic becomes very mellow and easy to spread after cooking.

Tartar Sauce

You’ll never buy tartar sauce from the store again after you taste this delicious, easy-to-make recipe!

Pasta Sauces

Basil Pesto with Pistachio Nuts

This basil pesto is a little different in that I used pistachio nuts. The flavor is bright and fresh for summer. Use it with pasta, roasted chicken or lamb, on sandwiches, fresh veggies, pizza, and especially on your fresh vine-ripened garden tomatoes.

Creamy Roasted Garlic Sauce

This sauce is so delicious! There are so many uses for this sauce, such as with pasta, on vegetable, etc. Let your imagination be your guide with this sauce.

Marinara Sauce

This is a very good basic Marinara Sauce. Using this easy-to-make recipe, you can easily make an Arrabbiata Sauce.

Oven-Roasted Canned Tomatoes

Longing for summer tomatoes? When good vine- ripened fresh tomatoes are out of season, use top-quality canned tomatoes and roast them in your oven. Amazing things happen to canned tomatoes when you roast them in the oven.

Oven-Roasted Tomato Sauce

This is the perfect idea for those last of the season tomatoes. This is not really a recipe, but more of a technique that I use for making this wonderful Oven Roasted Tomato Sauce. This is a very simple technique that is subject to endless variation to your taste.

Parmesan-Asiago Topping

This is very addicting! Serve it as a topping for bread (crostini), tossed with pasta, on a baked potato, spooned over fresh sliced tomatoes, topping for a pizza – the possibilities are endless.

Peanut Sauce

The Peanut Sauce is excellent tossed with only cooked pasta and sesame seeds. Also great on chicken.

Simple Basic Tomato Sauce (low fat, low calorie)

This basic tomato sauce can be used for spaghetti, ravioli, chicken Parmesan, or anything else that you want! It is very quick and very easy to make and tastes delicious! Anything from seasoning to spices can be added to flavor the sauce.

Sun-Dried Tomato, Basil, and Almond Nut Pesto

This is a very flavorful twist on pesto. Great to use on pizza, vegetable tarts, pasta, sandwiches, in omelets, or add to Italian-style soups.

Pesto Sauces

Basil Pesto

This delicious pesto will taste great with your pasta, on bread, pizza, toast, baked potatoes, etc.

Basil Pesto with Pistachio Nuts

This basil pesto is a little different in that I used pistachio nuts. The flavor is bright and fresh for summer. Use it with pasta, roasted chicken or lamb, on sandwiches, fresh veggies, pizza, and especially on your fresh vine-ripened garden tomatoes.

Sun-Dried Tomato, Basil, and Almond Nut Pesto

This is a very flavorful twist on pesto. Great to use on pizza, vegetable tarts, pasta, sandwiches, in omelets, or add to Italian-style soups.

Salad Dressings and Vinaigrettes

Balsamic Vinaigrette

This is one of my favorite salad dressing! It is so easy to make and so good.

Balsamic Maple Vinaigrette

(low fat, low calorie & low carb) – The addition of pure maple syrup brings this vinaigrette to a new dimension.

Basil Infused Vinaigrette

(low fat, low calorie & low carb) -This is excellent served on fresh tomatoes from your garden.

Blue Cheese Dressing

This blue cheese dressing is so good! My husband loves it! Use it on your salads, as a dip, or on your steaks.

Caesar Salad Dressing

(low fat, low calorie)

My all-time favorite salad is the Caesar Salad. Following is my delicious low-fat version of this salad. I promise you that your guests will never know the difference! I make this low-fat version all of time. I have served it with Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners.

Cilantro-Lime Vinaigrette

A very refreshing salad dressing.This delicious Poppy Seed Salad Dressing recipe was shared with my by Karen Calanchini of Redding, CA.

Classic Raspberry Vinaigrette

The addition of either fresh or frozen raspberries, makes this dressing exceptional!

Dad’s Goop Salad Dressing (low fat)

My friend, Karen Calanchini of Redding, CA, adapted and shared this tasty salad dressing recipe. Karen says, “This is from a good friend of mine and she says it is close to 60 years old and that her dad used to make it. I’ve created this low-fat version that I use all the time. It is very good!”

Everybody’s Salad Dressing

This delicious salad dressing recipe was shared with me by Alleta Huston. Alleta says, “My friend gave me this recipe and it is wonderful with any type of herb vinegar. It’s sort of a French style dressing. I gave this dressing out with my herb vinegar this Christmas.”

Green Goddess Dressing

The Green Goddess Dressing was created at San Francisco’s Palace Hotel (now called the Sheraton-Palace) in the 1920s.

Hazelnut Vinaigrette

The hazelnut oil really gives this vinaigrette a special taste! This recipe is a favorite of my husband.

Honey Mustard Dressing

My husband loves honey mustard dressing and this homemade version also delights him. So easy to make!

Juniper Berry Vinaigrette

Recipe by chef Bruce Naftaly of Le Gourmand Restaurant in Seattle, WA.

Lemon Vinaigrette

This is one of my favorite salad dressing. I’m always making this vinaigrette. It is so easy to make and so good!

Orange Balsamic Vinaigrette

This vinaigrette is so refreshing and is so easy to make and so good. You will definitely enjoy this on your salads.?>

Pomegranate Viniagrette

(low fat, low calorie & low carb) – Another great tasting slow fat, low calories, and low carbohydrate salad dressing – plus you have all the benefits of the pomegranate.

Poppyseed Dressing

This is the best poppy seed dressing you have every tasted!

Poppyseed Dressing 2

This delicious Poppy Seed Salad Dressing recipe was shared with my by Karen Calanchini of Redding, CA.

Sesame-Dijon Vinaigrette with Capers

Check out this very different, but delicious, version of Honey-Mustard Dressing.

Thousand Island Dressing from vegetarian condiment and sauce collection in a glass cup

Thousand Island Dressing

I serve this wonderful Thousand Island Dressing with salads, spread on sandwiches (especially Reuben Sandwiches), and seafood. It is so easy to make and so good!

Truffle Oil Dressing

This salad dressing is a wonderful gastronomic experience. The truffle oil provides a new meaning to salads as there is something about the smell that makes you want to throw aside your fork and eat the salad with your fingers!

Vermont Maple Dressing

This is a wonderful salad dressing. It is one of my family’s favorite salad dressings and sure to become one of yours.

Honey Mustard Dressing

My husband loves honey mustard dressing and this homemade version also delights him. So easy to make!

Juniper Berry Vinaigrette

Recipe by chef Bruce Naftaly of Le Gourmand Restaurant in Seattle, WA.

Lemon Vinaigrette

This is one of my favorite salad dressing. I’m always making this vinaigrette. It is so easy to make and so good!

Orange Balsamic Vinaigrette

This vinaigrette is so refreshing and is so easy to make and so good. You will definitely enjoy this on your salads.?>

Pomegranate Viniagrette

(low fat, low calorie & low carb) – Another great tasting slow fat, low calories, and low carbohydrate salad dressing – plus you have all the benefits of the pomegranate.

Poppyseed Dressing

This is the best poppy seed dressing you have every tasted!

Sesame-Dijon Vinaigrette with Capers

Check out this very different, but delicious, version of Honey-Mustard Dressing.

Thousand Island Dressing

I serve this wonderful Thousand Island Dressing with salads, spread on sandwiches (especially Reuben Sandwiches), and seafood. It is so easy to make and so good!

Truffle Oil Dressing

This salad dressing is a wonderful gastronomic experience. The truffle oil provides a new meaning to salads as there is something about the smell that makes you want to throw aside your fork and eat the salad with your fingers!

Vermont Maple Dressing

This is a wonderful salad dressing. It is one of my family’s favorite salad dressings and sure to become one of yours.

Salsa and Guacamole

Avocado-Corn Salsa

Fresh corn and avocado. Yum!

Brenda’s Salsa Recipe

This is my daughter’s recipes. Salsa is a delicious uncooked chunky tomato sauce. You can develop a real passion for salsa, since it is low in calories and very flavorful.

Chunky Avocado Salad – Guacamole Salad

This version of guacamole is fantastic! I really like this chunky version over the mashed ones. It can be served as an appetizer or a salad with either corn or flour tortillas.

Cranberry Salsa with Cream Cheese

This fantastic recipe was shared with me by Carol Reich of Hillsboro, Oregon. Carol won a Dip Contest on the Satellite Sisters Radio Show with this outstanding and also beautiful-to-look-at recipe.

Fresh Tomato Salsa

Salsa is a delicious uncooked chunky tomato sauce. You can develop a real passion for salsa, since it is low in calories and very flavorful. There are no hard-and-fast rules in making salsa. Add or delete ingredients according to your taste.

Guacamole Dip with Cilantro

In the cuisine of the Southwest, guacamole is used as a cocktail dip, or one of the toppings and/or fillings of enchiladas, tacos, tostadas, or burritos.

close up image of chunky homemade guacamole in a bowl

Guacamole (Garden Style)

Avocados are wonderful fruits, and very good for you, despite the high fat content. The fat stored in avocados is monounsaturated and can even help in the battle of the bulge. It helps to keep you feeling full and it can be a metabolism booster.

Jicama Salsa

Check out this very unusual and delicious salsa!

Mango and Black Bean Salsa

A wonderful salsa recipe. Also excellent with seafood and fish.

Roasted Chile Pepper & Tomatillo Salsa

Fiery hot salsa – for those you like salsa hot! So good and so addicting!

Roasted Lemon Salsa

This is an unusual approach that produces a great condiment. Roasting a lemon softens its acidity and adds a toasty note. It’s a great topper for broiled or grilled chicken and fish.

Salsa Verde

Salsa verde is to Mexican cuisine what tomato sauce is to Italian food.  Its most popular use is as a chip dip, but also used as a sauce on meats.

Tropical Fruit Salsa

This fruit salsa is a delicious summertime treat. You can develop a real passion for this salsa, since it is low in calories and very flavorful.

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