Butter

Technique 1

Preparation info
  • Makes:

    500

    g
    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      20 min

Appears in
Plant Academy: The Cookbook: Plant-based techniques & recipes for creative cooking

By Lauren Lovatt

Published 2025

  • About

Butter is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as ‘a pale yellow edible fatty substance made by churning cream and used as a spread or in cooking’. There is so much controversy around using the word ‘butter’ for a plant-based food, but we are talking about an ingredient with the same uses and purpose, apart from this time we are using milk made from a plant. This is a simple way to make butter. Note that this is different to the nut butters explor