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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.

Red wine caramelised onions in a cast iron pan.

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 ...

A silver spoon resting in a glass jar of hazelnut butter.

Roasted Hazelnut Butter

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

Vegetables and water in a pot before cooking.

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 ...

Oat milk in a flip-top glass bottle.

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 ...

Long fettuccine noodles drying on a wooden pasta drying rack.

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 ...

Lemon curd in a glass jar surrounded by lemons.

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 cut into tagliatelle drying on a wooden wrack.

Kamut Pasta

Kamut is the coolest grain in town. The really neat thing about it is that unlike other grains, it has to be organic, or it's ...

Preserved lemons stuffed with coarse salt.

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, ...

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