11 Oil-Free Vegan Sweet Treats
Eleven vegan sweets, from tahini truffles to a pavlova with an aquafaba meringue, built without oil across eleven different blogs.
10 Oil-Free Vegan One-Pot Mains and Sides
Ten vegan mains and sides, from tikka masala to crispy roasted potatoes, sauteed in broth or water instead of oil.
10 Oil-Free Vegan Breakfasts and Muffins
Ten vegan breakfasts and muffins, from overnight oats to pumpkin cornbread, built with mashed banana, applesauce and pumpkin puree standing in for the oil.
6 Oil-Free Vegan Soups and Stews
Six vegan soups and stews, from a Ukrainian borscht to a slow cooker chili, built without oil or with one easy swap in place of it.
10 Oil-Free Vegan Sauces, Dips and Dressings
Ten vegan sauces, dips and dressings built on soaked cashews, tahini and blended vegetables instead of oil. All ten are oil-free as written or with one small swap.
9 Raw Vegan Desserts You Can Make Without Baking
Nine raw, no-bake vegan desserts built from carrots, berries, beets, avocado and walnuts. Three use no oil at all, and we’ve flagged what to swap on the other six.
20 No-Bake Energy Bites, Fewest Ingredients First
Twenty of our own no-bake bites, balls and bars, sorted by how few ingredients they need. Nineteen of them are held together and sweetened by dates alone, eight have four ingredients or fewer, and thirteen take ten minutes.
Egg Substitutes for Baking: Which Binder Works for What
There is no all-purpose egg substitute. Counted across 200 of our own recipes: flax holds patties, psyllium is the only one that makes a sliceable loaf, chia never binds a patty, and dates and banana never go in bread.
Plant-Based Christmas: Four Meals, Not One
Thanksgiving is one meal. Christmas is four across two or three days, plus a few weeks of baking before any of it. Thirty-one of our own recipes, organized by when you eat them rather than by course.
22 Oil-Free Dips and Sauces, by What Makes Them Creamy
Take the oil out of a dip and something else has to do the work. In 20 of these 22 it is nuts or seeds blended with water. The page is sorted by what gives each one its body, because that decides whether it pours, scoops or spreads.
13 Oil-Free Vegan Dinners, Fastest First
Thirteen of our own dinners, sorted by how long they take, from 22 minutes to an hour and a half. All oil-free, all built on beans, tofu or grains, and in the slow ones the oven does the work rather than you.
30 Vegan Desserts, Fruit-Sweetened First
We counted every dessert on this site. 34 of the 58 are sweetened with fruit alone, 9 add a little dark chocolate, and 15 have sugar or syrup in them. This page is sorted by which is which.
Plant-Based Thanksgiving: The Whole Menu, and When to Cook Each Part
Twenty-eight recipes, all ours and all tested here. The centerpiece, the sides, the pies, and a schedule that tells you what to cook 3 days out, the day before, and in the last 90 minutes.
Lentils: Which Kind to Buy, and How to Cook Each One
No lentil needs soaking. Red split collapse in fifteen to twenty minutes, brown and green hold their shape in twenty-five to thirty, and salt and acid go in at the end. Plus the 1982 study the second-meal effect is named after.
Chickpeas: Canned or Dried, and How to Cook Them
Dried cost about half the price of tinned once cooked. Soak 12 hours, simmer an hour to an hour and a half, freeze the rest. And the one recipe on this site where a tin will not work.
Sprouting at Home: Which Sprouts Are Worth It, and How to Grow Them
Three-day-old broccoli sprouts carry 10 to 100 times the glucoraphanin of the mature plant, and they are ready in three to five days. The jar method, who should not eat them raw, and the chopping trick that makes the compound in the first place.
Oil-Free Salad Dressing: The Ratio That Makes It Work
1 part raw nut or seed to 1 or 2 parts water. The ratio behind every dressing we make, how to thicken one that came out too thin, and which nut gives which texture.
Cooking Without Oil: What Actually Replaces It
Water in the pan, parchment in the oven, and blended nuts where a dish needs to be rich. The technique behind every recipe on this site, including the part about fat that most oil-free writing gets wrong.
Vegan Meatballs, Patties and Burgers: What Holds Them Together
Ground flaxseed does the job egg used to do, and these firm up as they cool rather than in the fridge. The mechanism, which base to start with, and every way they fall apart.
Bread Without Flour: How It Works, and Which Loaf to Make
You can make a real, sliceable loaf from soaked lentils, chickpeas or quinoa and no flour at all. Here is the mechanism, which base to pick, and every way it goes wrong.
What Happens When You Switch to a Plant-Based Diet: An Honest Timeline
Nobody gives you a map on day one. Here’s the honest plant-based diet timeline, including the two rough patches most people quit in, and roughly when each one ends.