The Vegan Dairy

The one thing I hear new (or even long-standing!) vegans struggling with most is the lack of cheese in the vegan diet. Traditionally, it has been hard to replicate the salty-umami taste of ‘real’ cheese from plant-based ingredients, but in recent years vegan products have come on leaps and bounds and there is now a myriad of delicious vegan cheese on the market. It is also relatively simple to make wonderful vegan cheeses at home, as the recipes on the following pages will demonstrate. Not just wonderful to cook with, these would also make a wonderful hostess gift to a vegan dinner party, too. This section also contains recipes for a wonderful vegan butter and easy home-made nut milk, too.