Staples

Staple recipes for any vegetarian kitchen, from how to make caramelised onions to oat milk. These simple everyday recipes will teach you important basics.

Learn to make homemade staples yourself, reduce your packaging waste, and become more confident in a whole-foods kitchen. Many of these basic recipes are used elsewhere in other recipes and are useful to have on hand.

You'll learn basics like How to Make Vegetable Broth with plenty of tips, notes, and substitution options to suit your equipment and available ingredients.

Other vegetarian standards include Pickled Red Onions, Vegan Chocolate Ganache, Simple Marinara Tomato Sauce, and the ever-useful Coconut Whipped Cream.

Take these staple recipes with you to use in other meals, or as part of a weekly batch-cooking routine. Whether you're an absolute beginner or an experienced cook just exploring plant-based eating, there's something here for you.

Fermented Cashew Cream Cheese

I absolutely love cream cheese, and it's one of the things I've missed most (except cheese curds, maybe) in a dairy-free diet. ...

Spelt Sourdough Pizza Dough

But can it be pizza without cheese - well, sure, if you can't eat dairy. This is a good indicator of our weekly pizza (we make ...

Sourdough Rye and Spelt Crackers

I seem to have an unlimited supply of sourdough discard, and these rye and spelt sourdough crackers are our favourite thing to ...

How to Make Coconut Butter

Coconut butter is a lovely vegan alternative to dairy butter, and can be used in such a variety of recipes - but it's very, ...

Simple Marinara Tomato Sauce

This is just a simple vegan tomato sauce, but the easiest and best-tasting I've ever made. It's very loosely based off a ...

How to Make Caramelised Onions

Caramelised onions are easy to make, but need a lot of time to cook. If you see someone telling you they're caramelising ...

Roasted Hazelnut Butter

Ingredients Raw hazelnutsMaple syrup or date syrup (pictured - see substitutions)CinnamonSea salt Method Place the ...

How to Make Vegetable Broth

While I don't always make broth from scratch, I'm always very pleased when I do. It tastes so much better and feels really ...