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How to make vegan Brown Butter
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What is brown butter?
Browning butter is a French technique, also known as buerre noisette, used to cook and color dairy butter.
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Browning and adding butter to food is supposed to enrich the flavor to add rich smokiness and depth of flavor to both savory and sweet foods.
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For any vegan butter to brown, you need to imitate the
Maillard reaction
(the reaction between reducing sugars and proteins by the impact of heat).
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To imitate the Maillard reaction your plant-based butter needs to have both proteins and sugars, such as vegan butter that is based on nut milk.
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Some plant-based butter is however oil-based. To help it recreate a Maillard reaction, you need to add protein and sugars to replicate it.
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A great way to do so is by adding nuts to the composition!
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More tips and details, a list of vegan butter brands that brown on their own, and vegan recipes that use brown butter via the link below.
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