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.

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 ...

How to Make Oat Milk

Oat milk has fairly recently surged in popularity in North America - maybe in the last couple of years. It's been widely ...

Spelt Pasta

Spelt pasta is my go-to for homemade pasta. As much as I love kamut pasta, it's trickier to get khorasan flour here but spelt ...

Honey Lemon Curd

This post was originally published in September 2014. It has been updated with new step-by-step photos and improvements to the ...

Kamut Pasta

This post was originally published in October 2015. It has been updated as of February 2020 with new photos and updates to the ...

How to Make Preserved Lemons

Preserved lemons are a popular addition to south Asian and north African cuisine, especially common in Morocco. They’re salty, ...

The Best Pickled Red Onions

I see a lot of recipes and guidelines on how to pickle red onions, but the onions pictured are always still white - they ...

Oat Cream

Homemade Oat Cream So there's an oat cream that's been widely available in Europe for years now, and recently in North ...

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