Starter · 110 recipes
Starter recipes
Starters set the tone for your meal, so they demand attention. Whether you're building layers of flavor with slow-cooked aromatics, coaxing browning from high heat, or layering textures, these recipes reward technique and patience. Here you'll find the dishes that make people linger at the table before the main course arrives, built on the principle that the first bite should whisper promises about what comes next.
Cream Cheese Tart
Clam chowder
Creamy Tomato Soup
Broccoli & Stilton soup
Ajo blanco
Quick gazpacho
Mantu Afghan Dumpling
Paracuca (Roasted Peanuts)
Simple heart of palm & tomato salad
Oyster Mushroom Soup
Colombian Style Stuffed Potatoes
Black Bean soup
Baked brie with sorrel jam
Dominican Bakes
Aadun (Nigerian Corn Flour with Palm Oil)
Accra Cassava (Cameroonian Cassava Fritters)
Ants on a Log
Apple with Mustard and Goat Cheese
Baked Brie in Puff Pastry
Bhel Puri (Indian Puffed Rice and Vegetable Snack)
Bonda (South Indian Vegetable Fritter)
Pani Puri (Bread Filled with Potato Curry)
Bruschetta
Buttered Popcorn
Börek (Turkish Filled Pastries)
Caponata (Sicilian Eggplant and Vegetables)
Century Egg with Ham and Ginger
Cheese and Crackers
Cheese Crisps
Cheese Spread on French Bread
Cheese Stuffed Tomatoes
Chikanda (Zambian Orchid Sausage)
Chipotle Lime Tortilla Chips
Chupaqueso
Cream Cheese Wontons
Cream Cheese-Stuffed Bell Peppers
Deep Fried Chickpea Dough Curry Snacks (Pakoda)
Mirchi Bhajji (Deep Fried Chiles Filled with Chickpea Flour)
Deep Fried Lentil Dough Balls (Punugu)
Deep Fried Chiles Stuffed with Potato (Mirchi Bada)
Deep Fried Pretzels
Deep Fried Wheat and Chickpea Flour Dough Balls (Muthiya)
Deviled Eggs
Easy Nachos
Eggs Connaught
Egyptian Stuffed Grape Leaves (Warak Enab Mahshi)
Fresh Mozzarella Bruschetta
Fried Onion Blooms
Fried Pickle
Glazed Onion Canapes
Goat Cheese Cakes
Grapefruit and Crab Cocktail
Huancayo Potatoes in Cream Sauce (Papas a la Huancaína)
Ifinkubala (Zambian Fried Caterpillars)
Igbouh Ahi (Nigerian Roasted Bambara Nuts)
Inswa (Zambian Fried Flying Ants)
Kashkaval Pane (Bulgarian Fried Cheese)
Khaman Dhokla (Steamed Gram Bread)
Khandvi (Rolled Chickpea Noodles)
Kokoro (Nigerian Fried Corn Snack)
Kondowole (Malawian Toasted Sesame Seeds)
Kuli Kuli (Nigerian Crunchy Peanut Fritter)
Kwek-Kwek (Deep-Fried Quail Eggs)
Macho Nachos
Maharashtrian Onion Pakoda (Deep Fried Chickpea Dough Curry Snacks)
Mandoca (Fried Breaded Pepper)
Mbatata a Matenda (Malawian Cassava Fritters)
Medu Vada (South Indian Savory Lentil Donut)
Microwaved Artichoke
Mini English Muffin Pizzas
Mozzarella Sticks
Mushroom Caps Stuffed with Bacon and Cheese
Nachos
Nibbles
Nigerian Spring Rolls
Nigerian Toasted Groundnuts
Nkhwani wa Ndiwo (Malawian Vegetable Fritters)
Nuked Nachos
Ojojo (Water Yam Fritters)
Olive Ascolane (Stuffed Fried Olives)
Onion Pakoras
Pan-Fried White Brined Cheese (Saganaki)
Papri Chaat (Crispy Indian Snack with Potato)
Party Mix
Phulourie (Split Pea Fritters)
Plantain Mosa (Nigerian Plantain Fritters)
Popcorn
Pot Stickers
Potato Pakora
Potato Samosas (Aloo Pies)
Potato Skins
Rumaki (Bacon-wrapped Chicken Liver and Water Chestnut)
Samosa
Scotch Bonnet Pepper Poppers
Sev Puri (Crispy Indian Snack with Potato)
Snails with Garlic Butter (Escargots à la Bourguignonne)
Spicy Plantain Chips
Spinach Pakoras
Stuffed Mushrooms with Crabmeat
Sylheti Onion and Rice Fritters (Nunor Bora)
Tanfiri (Nigerian Groundnut and Corn Snack)
Tempura
Tequeños (Venezuelan Breaded Cheese Sticks)
Tibetan Meat Momos
Toasted Baguette Slices with Pecan Butter, Brie and Apples
Tubani (Nigerian Corn and Soybean Fritter)
Vegetable Party Sandwiches
Vegetable Spring Roll
Wisconsin Ackawi Cheese Triangles
Zippuli (Italian Potato Cheese Fritters)
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