Best Vegan and Vegetarian Recipes - Spa Index Guide to Spas

Healthy Hoppin’ John Recipe

Eating a bowl of Hoppin’ John on New Year’s Day is a folksy tradition to help assure a prosperous year filled with luck. Skyterra Wellness Retreat offers this healthy version, rich with nutrients.

Easy Date Cocoa Energy Bars

Make your own Energy Bars naturally sweetened by dates and loaded with almonds for extended energy. This snack is sure to satisfy when hunger strikes.

Mexican Quinoa Salad – Recipe by Rancho La Puerta Spa

Mexican Quinoa Salad with jalapeño, corn and avocado for a spicy and smooth twist, plus a delicious lemony parsley garlic dressing you’ll want to use all summer.

Gluten Free Low Fat Hot and Sour Soup

This peppery soup is ideal for a light supper, and soothing for both a Winter cold or Spring allergies

Summer Vegetable Fritters – Skyterra Recipe

These tasty fritters can easily be enhanced with protein, chick peas, lentils, cashews and more! Delicious over a salad with avocado and white beans.

Roasted Garlic Hummus – Skyterra Recipe

Hummus is rich in healthy fats, fiber, potassium, small amounts of iron and heart healthy benefits from the garlic.

Pritikin Crispy Breaded Cauliflower

Try this recipe for Crispy Breaded Cauliflower as a side dish, or make large pieces for an entree with your favorite dip.

Almond Pulp Date Macaroons

If you routinely make almond milk, you’ll want to save the pulp to make these tasty Almond Pulp Date Macaroons

Gluten Free Vegan Maple Butter Tarts

These Gluten-Free Vegan Maple “Butter” Tarts are a guest favorite at the Sugar Ridge Retreat Center, a yoga retreat in Ontario, Canada.

Twice Baked Cheesy Stuffed Potatoes

Twice Baked Cheesy Stuffed Potatoes add to your protein intake, and make use of lower fat cheeses to have a rich side dish wish doesn’t sabotage your meal.

Autumn Squash and Lentil Salad – Hilton Head Health

This delicious salad has Acorn Squash, Tart Apples, Curried Lentils, Chopped Pecans, and more. A holiday salad or entree from Hilton Head Health Retreat.

Red Quinoa and Beet Salad – Ranch Malibu

This bright quinoa and beet salad is dense with color and nutrients, great warm or cold, and totes well to work or school.

Warm Endive Wedge Salad with Cashew Dressing – Skyterra Recipe

This Warm Endive Wedge Salad recipe from Skyterra Wellness Retreat in North Carolina uses peppery endive, grapes, pistachios, and a really tasty cashew dill dressing. We call this “accidentally vegan” — and everyone enjoys it.

Orange Marinated Beets – Recipe by Rancho La Puerta Spa

Imbued with the fresh zest of oranges and the earthy flavor of fresh beets and a tangy splash of vinegar, this recipe for Orange Marinated Beets recipe is a colorful and vibrant side dish for your spa lunch. Shared by Chef and Recipe Developer Lia Huber, guest Chef at Rancho La Puerta Spa and author of Nourished: A Memoir of Food, Faith and Enduring Love.

Vegetable Thai Curry – Ranch Malibu

The Ranch Malibu uses freshly harvested ingredients coming from its garden to serve guests this delicious and savory entree.

Vegan Scramble Breakfast Tacos

A tasty and cleaner version of usually high-fat eats — these Breakfast Tacos are easy to make and actually tote well to work when wrapped in foil.

Pritikin Vegetarian Lasagna Recipe

This popular Pritikin Vegetarian Lasagna dish is delicious served for dinner, and makes great leftovers at work the following day. We love to add fresh mushrooms and whatever greens we have on hand.

Pritikin Garden Vegetable Potato Salad

This potato salad adds garden vegetables and skips fatty mayonnaise. It was a Most Filling Dish winner in Pritikin’s Cooking School Recipe Contest.

Pritikin Sweet Potato Black Bean Burgers

This colorful and tasty meatless burger was a Most Unique Recipe winner in Pritikin’s Cooking School Recipe Contest.

Vegetarian Stuffed Cabbage Rolls

The Spa at Palm-Aire Weight Loss Program focused on low-fat, low-sugar and low-cholesterol cuisine, including these Vegetarian Cabbage Rolls.

Bleu Cheese and Cherry Stuffed Endive – Skyterra Recipe

Skip ordinary cheese and crackers and use crisp, leafy endives for a plant-based pre-meal platter instead. This delicious appetizer is courtesy of Skyterra Wellness Retreat.

Thai Braised Brussels Sprouts – Hilton Head Health

One of the guest favorite recipes served at Hilton Head Health is this side dish of Thai Braised Brussels Sprouts. This side dish is packed with tantalizing Thai flavors; creamy coconut and zesty curry.

Turkey Chili Con Carne with Vegetarian Option

This lighter, healthy recipe for Turkey Chili is a nice lunch or dinner entree as the weather turns crisp for the fall. Adapted from Green Mountain at Fox Run, Vermont.

Pritikin Roasted Tomatoes and Chard Recipe

This recipe for roasted tomatoes and chard is easy, delicious and nutritious. Serve it as a side dish. Makes store-bought tomatoes taste wonderful!

Pritikin Spaghetti Squash and Tomato salad

When paired with tomato and basil, spaghetti squash is a darn good replacement for spaghetti. Think of it as faux-pasta. This is good chilled, as a salad, and warm as an entree.

Chickpea Salad Sandwich – Hilton Head Health

This simple but hearty sandwich features a tasty chickpea salad, created by Hilton Head Health’s own Executive Chef, Karla Williams. It’s just as delicious served atop a spinach salad!

Baked Sweet Potato Chips – Skyterra Recipe

Sometimes you just want and need that crunchy, salty, savory mouth feel — you want chips! This is a nutritious option.

Pritikin Ratatouille Spaghetti Squash

Ratatouille over Spaghetti squash is super easy to prepare and the veggie “noodles” are a great alternative to traditional pasta. One whole cup of spaghetti squash, cooked, is just 43 calories, and the ratatouille is only 43 calories. This is an entree that will fill you up but not out.

Rainbow Chard Vegetarian Enchiladas – Recipe by Rancho La Puerta

These baked vegetarian enchiladas created by Rancho La Puerta’s Executive Chef fairly ooze with a delicious sauteed filling of chard, cheese and onion for a light and healthy main course.

Garden Fresh Frittata Divorciada – Recipe by Rancho La Puerta Spa

Classic Huevos Rancheros is often served “divorce style” – named because small pools of red and green sauce beneath sunny side-up eggs are separated by beans. In this recipe, garden fresh frittata is served on a dish of colorful sauces.

Light Zucchini Pea Soup

Zucchini Soup is usually a fat-added creamy affair, but this version takes a new approach, using savory ingredients for a broth based, light and nourishing version.

Pritikin Edamame Broccoli Dip – 45 Calories

This colorful Edamame Broccoli Dip is excellent with vegetable sticks, such as carrots, celery, and jicama, or with low-sodium, baked chips. 45 calories per serving.

Canyon Ranch Vegetable Kale Soup

A simple soup of beans, potatoes and superfood Kale, thanks to Canyon Ranch Spa

Pritikin Sweet and Sour Cabbage Soup

This low-sodium recipe for Sweet and Sour Cabbage Soup serves 10 or more and keeps very well in the fridge for several days, making it a great option to tote to work or school.

Roasted Cauliflower with Cilantro Aioli

Roasted cauliflower is the perfect comfort food for a cold weather meal. Served with a tangy Aioli.

Spa Orange Almond Brown Rice Pilaf

Serve this savory side dish of brown rice pilaf with your favorite fish, poultry or pork, or use it as a stuffing.

Healthy Chef Skinny Dips

The Healthy Chef, Teresa Cutter, one of Australia’s leading authorities on healthy cooking, has some great Skinny Dips for spa parties and holiday meals.

50 Calorie Fat Free Curry Carrot Soup

This may be the easiest and fastest Zero Fat Carrot Soup you can make. With just a handful of ingredients and spices, you have a zesty fat-free soup to tote to work or school — a 1 cup serving is between 45-50 calories.

Quinoa and Lentil Stuffed Peppers

Quinoa and Lentil Stuffed Peppers is a perfect vegetarian supper for both cold and warm weather seasons. Omit the Parmesan to make this an ideal vegan entree, too!

Low Fat High Protein Cucumber Spread

This tasty, tangy cucumber spread is wonderful with fresh vegetables or between very thinly sliced bread for tea sandwiches.

Spicy Kale with White Beans and Garlic

This quick and flexible vegetarian Spicy Kale with White Beans and Garlic serves just you or entire family! Garlic and Parmesan cheese provide savory flavors and balance the bitterness of Kale. Beans provide a source of protein. Vinegar, kale, and red pepper flakes all help in to digest the heaviness of beans.

Ananda Spa Cheese Cannelloni

In this recipe for Cheese Cannelloni, Ananda’s Chef uses an Indian type of farmers cottage cheese called “paneer” which has a texture like firm tofu and can be sliced and pan-fried.

Cleansing Carrot Ginger Soup

This Carrot Ginger Soup is a guest favorite meal at Sanivan Holistic Retreat in the Catskills of New York.

Stuffed Mushrooms with Feta Cheese

These popular Stuffed Mushrooms are intended as a single-serving treat, but if you increase the ingredients, they can be perfect for your holiday table.

Pritikin Roasted Pumpkin Wedges

This healthy recipe for Pritikin Pumpkin Wedges is vegetable-rich, only takes 3 ingredients, and can be a tasty vegetable and dessert, all in one. Plus, pumpkins are a bonafide super-food, so it’s a triple duty recipe — easy, delicious and nutritious.

Light Lasagna Roll Ups

Green Mountain at Fox Run in Ludlow, Vermont, shares a Lasagne recipe that is fit and healthy, and still lets us taste the best of Autumn.

Red Mountain Spa Zucchini Alfredo Recipe

This creamy “raw” pasta dish is a healthy alternative to traditional Fettuccine Alfredo and perfectly refreshing for those hot summer days! Suitable for vegans and vegetarians, but pleasing to all.

Avocado Banana Chocolate Mousse Pudding

This fruit filled dessert is a tropical take on traditional Chocolate Mousse, and is suitable for vegans and those avoiding dairy and soy. It’s very creamy and satisfying — a little goes a long way.

Spring Green Vegetable Minestrone | 80 Calories

This Green Vegetable Minestrone is delicious straight from the pot or topped with chopped avocado and a generous drizzle of salsa verde. If you want to pump up the protein, add some chicken or creamy white cannellini beans.

Tempeh Curry with Cauliflower and Potatoes

We like this recipe just with vegetables, too. You don’t need the tempeh to make an excellent cauliflower potato curry.

Red Mountain Spa Grilled Veggie Rolls

Grilled Veggie Rolls are a vegetarian spin on an enchilada, making use of savory vegetables, including eggplant and mushrooms, and with the addition of soy cheese (or use dairy if you prefer) and marinara sauce. This is a healthy, hearty and savory entree for any season.

Pritikin Fat Free Potato Salad

This Fat Free Potato Salad, created by the chefs at the Pritikin Longevity Center in Florida, is light on calories but full of rich, zesty flavor thanks to fat-free sour cream, Greek yogurt, and herbs.

Harvest Quinoa Pilaf

This recipe is a tasty side dish with fruit, grains and arugula and topped with pumpkin seeds

Three Sisters Succotash

Corn, beans and squash are the principal foods of many Native American tribes. They’re called “the three sisters” because they support one another as they grow. The corn grows tall, allowing the bean vine to twine around her stalk. The bean fixes the nitrogen in the soil, and the squash has big leaves that hold in moisture.

Canyon Ranch Cold Pea Vegetable Salad

This unique salad is wonderful for entertaining because it can be made ahead of time. In fact, we like it even better the day after it is made. Because it is so easy to serve it is perfect for buffet-style service, a delightful addition to holiday menus, and great for picnics and tailgate parties.

Southern Style Greens

Greens are an excellent source of iron, calcium and vitamins. Instead of a kettle of greens simmered in pork fat all day, which can be high fat and high sodium, try this spa-style light version.

Low Fat Corn Custard

This colorful creamy casserole pairs nicely with many of our Mexican spa cuisine dishes. Serve with black beans and our spa Southern Style Greens for a striking combination of colors and flavors. Great for the holiday table, too.

Avocado and Kale Super Salad

A salad full of super food nutrition thanks to kale, sweet potatoes, avocado, roasted seeds and lemon dressing

Vermont Maple Sweet Potatoes

Vermont Maple Sweet Potatoes spotlight wonderful ingredients from Vermont, but can easily be made wherever you are from, as well!

Canyon Ranch White Bean Soup with Pesto

Both the bean soup and the pesto in this recipe can be served separately. The soup is good served cold with chopped leftover vegetables added to it and the pesto is a wonderful sauce for pasta. This simple faux pesto sauce has fewer ingredients than the recipe for Pesto Sauce in Canyon Ranch cookbooks, which also contains Miso and pine nuts. It can be served for vegan-vegetarian menus at Canyon Ranch because it does not contain cheese.

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