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Vegan Butter
We use Earth Balance ‘butter’, but we often make our special vegan butter using our own recipe. Having a Vitamix is the key to making this special ‘butter’, but you might be able to use any blender, if you are careful.
My husband, Malcolm, developed this recipe from an friend’s recipe. As always, he added his special extras to it to make it extra good!
Ingredients
- 1 ¼ cup Extra Virgin Coconut Oil (use a high quality oil)
- ¾ cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil ("First" Cold Pressed is best nutritionally; just "Cold Pressed" is next best)
- ¼ cup Extra Virgin Flax Oil (may substitute Extra Virgin Olive Oil or grapeseed oil)
- 1 cup COLD water
- 1 to 4 T (up to ¼ cup) lecithin (nutritional yeast) flakes or granules
- 1 - 2 tsp. Celtic (sea) or Himalayan Salt (or other salt)
Instructions
- To keep butter from separating as it cools, very important to keep EVERYTHING very cold, especially as the blender tends to warm the mixture.
- Recommend PRE-MEASURING the coconut oil when warm enough to pour, then freezing it, or at least refrigerating overnight.
- Also, pre-measure the olive and flax oils (may combine) and leave overnight in refrigerator.
- Water should be ICE COLD ... recommend making ice water, and scooping or pouring out a cup of the water to use when blending.
- Scoop pre-measured cold coconut oil into Vitamix and add the one cup of ice cold water.
- Blend to just barely even consistency.
- Add the other ingredients, and blend thoroughly -- flax and olive oils will give it a yellow-ish color.
- Pour into small tub-like containers. Refrigerate or freeze (freezes very well!)
- If the butter blend separates, you can add a bit of coconut oil and re-blend. Usually this is a sign the blend was warm when you tucked it away. Sometimes leaving off the lid for while when you first put it in the freezer is good.
- This blend is fantastic in place of regular butter on breads, biscuits, pancakes, etc. However, if you use it for cooking/baking best to replace the flax oil with grapeseed oil, which takes high heat better.
For more Vegan Butter recipes and more variation of this recipe, check out my Squidoo Lens:
Vegan Butter
Butter Substitute or Vegan Butter is fairly easy to find in the stores. Personally, we use Earth Balance because I like the taste and because it does not use soy (trying to stay away from that as well). So far, it works wonderful for use on toast, in some baking (where we can’t or don’t use coconut oil), …. and just an all around butter substitute.
Check out the article below for other options.
Vegan butter is better butter
Is the Paula Deen side of you wondering how you could ever get by without butter as a vegan? Have no fear — vegan butter not only exists, but it’s easy to find and delicious! You won’t miss the cruelty!
The most popular vegan butter on the market is made by Earth Balance. They have a long line of buttery products. Their buttery spread comes in tubs and sticks. There are several options with the buttery spreads: Original blend; Whipped (perfect for spreading on breads and muffins and the like); Soy Garden, made with the power of soy; Olive Oil blend; and Soy Free, for those avoiding soy. Earth Balance also makes buttery sticks, available in their Original blend, and Natural Vegetable Shortening sticks. You can learn about all of their products on their website. You can also find recipes and health facts for their products.
If you are adventurous or just interested in making your own Vegan Butter, I have written a Squidoo Lens: Vegan Butter Recipe. The article includes a recipe that my husband adapted for our personal use. Please share with your friends if you find my Vegan Butter Recipe Lens helpful or informative.
