Global & Everyday Recipes Without Seed Oils

These are all 25 Global & Everyday 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 · Snacks, Dips & Sauces · Drinks

Dinner & Main Dishes

• Butter Chicken Pasta — MAHA Fusion Weeknight Dinner — Butter chicken pasta — ghee-spiced chicken in a tomato cream sauce over rigatoni. Seed oil free. 30 minutes weeknight dinner.
• Butter Short Ribs — Low and Slow, No Seed Oils — Short ribs braised low and slow in butter and red wine — collagen-rich, seed oil free, the kind of dish that improves with every hour.
• Georgian Khinkali — Spiced Meat Dumplings in Butter — Khinkali are Georgian soup dumplings — thick-wrapped bundles of spiced beef and pork with herbs and broth inside. Boiled and served with mel
• Lard Braised Pulled Pork — No Vegetable Oil, No Shortcuts — Pulled pork braised in lard low and slow until it falls apart — the authentic fat that keeps the pork moist from start to finish.
• Lemon Tallow Chicken — Roasted in Beef Fat with Preserved Lemon — Chicken thighs roasted in beef tallow with preserved lemon and herbs — the fat produces the crispiest skin without a drop of seed oil.
• Roast Chicken With Compound Herb Butter Under the Skin — The compound butter technique for roast chicken — herb and garlic butter pushed under the skin of the breast and thighs before roasting — pr
• Roasted Sweet Potato With Ghee and Warming Spices — Sweet potatoes roasted in ghee with cumin, coriander, and cinnamon develop a caramelised exterior and fluffy interior that no vegetable oil

Sides, Soups & Breads

• Beef Stew That Proves the Fat Is Everything — Beef stew built on rendered fat — the base that makes the difference between a thin broth and a rich, collagen-dense ancestral meal.
• Brown Butter Banana Bread — No Vegetable Oil, Better Than Any Recipe You've Tried — Bake brown butter banana bread — no vegetable oil, no canola, just butter browned until the milk solids go golden. Better than any recipe yo
• Butter Mashed Potatoes — The Creamiest Seed Oil Free Recipe — Mashed potatoes made with real butter and nothing else — no seed oil spreads, no blended vegetable fat. The creamiest version possible.
• Flour Tortillas in Lard — The Only Correct Way to Make Them — Flour tortillas made with lard — the only correct fat for the task. Soft, pliable, slightly flaky. The version supermarket tortillas replace
• Instant Pot Bone Broth in 3 Hours — the MAHA Method With Tallow — Bone broth cooked in an Instant Pot takes 3 hours instead of 24. The result is deeply gelatinous, rich with collagen, and finished with a sp
• One-Pan Butter Chicken Thighs With Roasted Vegetables — Crispy butter-seared chicken thighs roasted on a bed of vegetables in one pan — the chicken fat bastes the vegetables as everything cooks to
• Tallow Roast Potatoes — The Secret to Shatteringly Crispy Roast Potatoes — The secret to shatteringly crispy roast potatoes is beef tallow — the fat used before vegetable oil took over. Golden outside, fluffy inside

Desserts & Baking

• Almond Poppy Seed Muffins — No Seed Oil, All Butter — Almond poppy seed muffins made with butter instead of vegetable oil — lighter crumb, better flavour, ready in 30 minutes.
• Crinkle Cookies in Butter — Seed Oil Free Baking — Crinkle cookies in butter — deep chocolate, powdered sugar, all butter. The version without shortening or seed oil is noticeably better.

Snacks, Dips & Sauces

• Seed Oil Free Chicken Nuggets: Homemade in Tallow (20 Minutes) — No commercial brand reliably makes seed oil free nuggets. Homemade in tallow takes 20 minutes and produces a crispier result. Full recipe pl
• Seed Oil Free Mayonnaise: Best Brands and How to Make Your Own — The best seed oil free mayo is Primal Kitchen (avocado oil). Chosen Foods is second. Homemade olive oil mayo takes 5 minutes and tastes bett
• Seed Oil Free Microwave Popcorn: The Honest Answer (and a Better Option) — There is no widely available seed oil free microwave popcorn. Every major brand uses soybean or canola oil. Stovetop popcorn in coconut oil
• Seed Oil Free Salad Dressing: Best Brands and 5 Homemade Recipes — The best seed oil free dressings are Primal Kitchen (avocado oil) or homemade olive oil vinaigrette. Full brand comparison, 5 homemade recip

Drinks

• Cold Brew Coffee With Coconut Cream — MAHA Iced Coffee — Cold brew concentrate mixed with full-fat coconut cream instead of dairy creamer or seed oil-based coffee whitener. Rich, smooth, naturally
• Golden Milk With Ghee and Turmeric — Warming MAHA Turmeric Drink — Golden milk is turmeric, black pepper, and warming spices in warm milk with a spoonful of ghee. The fat is essential — curcumin, turmeric's
• Himalayan Yak Butter Tea — Po Cha, the Ancestral Fat Drink of Tibet — Po cha — Himalayan yak butter tea at 14,000 feet. The ancestral fat drink of Tibet, made with salted tea, yak butter and churned by hand.
• MAHA Butter Coffee — Grass Fed Butter, Stable Energy, Zero Seed Oils — Grass-fed butter blended into black coffee — the MAHA morning ritual. Stable energy all morning, zero crash, zero seed oils.
• Mongolian Suutei Tsai — Salted Butter Milk Tea — Mongolian suutei tsai is salted milk tea with a knob of butter — the daily drink of the Mongolian steppe. Similar to Tibetan butter tea but