European Recipes Without Seed Oils

These are all 13 European recipes on The Foodie Kitchen, each cooked with a traditional fat such as butter, ghee, tallow, lard, coconut or olive oil instead of seed oils. They are grouped by meal so you can jump straight to breakfasts, mains, sides or desserts.

Jump to: Dinner & Main Dishes · Sides, Soups & Breads · Desserts & Baking

Dinner & Main Dishes

• Beef Bourguignon — French Braised Beef in Butter and Tallow — Beef bourguignon — French beef and red wine braise in butter and tallow. Julia Child's technique, seed oil free. Rich, deeply complex.
• British Fish and Chips in Beef Dripping — The Original Recipe — British fish and chips in beef dripping — battered cod fried in the fat that made this dish famous. Seed oil free. Crispier than any vegetab
• Butter Roasted Chicken — Crisp Skin, Ancestral Fat — Whole chicken roasted under a compound butter crust — the fat bastes from inside out as it cooks. Crisp skin, juicy meat, zero seed oils.
• Chicken Tikka Masala in Ghee — The British-Indian Classic — Chicken tikka masala cooked entirely in ghee — smoky grilled chicken in a rich, creamy tomato sauce. Seed oil free.
• Coq au Vin — Classic French Chicken Braised in Butter and Red Wine — Coq au vin — bone-in chicken braised in red wine with butter, lardons, and mushrooms. The French classic, entirely seed oil free. 90 minutes
• Ratatouille — Provençal Vegetable Stew in Olive Oil — Ratatouille — classic Provençal stewed summer vegetables in olive oil. Slow-cooked, deeply flavoured. Seed oil free. Vegan.
• Wiener Schnitzel in Lard — Austrian Breaded Veal the Traditional Way — Wiener Schnitzel in lard — pounded veal, fine breadcrumbs, fried until soufflé-puffed in clarified lard. The authentic Austrian technique. S

Sides, Soups & Breads

• French Onion Soup in Butter — the Classic Gratinée — French onion soup in butter — deeply caramelised onions, rich beef stock, Gruyère gratinée. The Parisian bistro classic, entirely seed oil f
• Yorkshire Puddings in Beef Dripping — Crisp, tall Yorkshire puddings baked in beef dripping, the traditional fat for a Sunday roast. No seed oils.

Desserts & Baking

• Butter Shortbread — 3 Ingredient Scottish Style — Scottish butter shortbread — three ingredients, grass-fed butter, flour, and sugar. The purest seed oil free biscuit. Melts in the mouth.
• French Sablés Bretons — Butter Shortbread From Brittany — Sablés bretons are the butter biscuits of Brittany — made with the region's famously salted butter, egg yolks, and flour only. Thick, crumbl
• German Lebkuchen — Spiced Christmas Biscuits in Butter — Lebkuchen are Germany's traditional Christmas spiced biscuits — built on Lebkuchengewürz (a blend of cinnamon, anise, ginger, clove, and car
• Shortbread in Butter — Three Ingredients, Zero Seed Oils — Three ingredient shortbread — butter, flour, sugar. Nothing else. The way Scottish shortbread has been made for centuries, without seed oils