Esselstyn No Oil Recipes Scones & Muffins Sweets Vegan

Best Pumpkin Muffins

If you want a pumpkin recipe that everyone will love, try this! I sometimes substitute white flour for whole wheat flour when making these for others. When it’s my husband and I, we’re whole-wheat all the way. These are hearty, cozy, and delightful. I use canned pumpkin, or around the fall I’ll start to roast …

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Rustic Cornbread – Vegan, Oil-Free

MMMMmmmmph. That’s the sound of my family enjoying this hearty and delicious guilt-free, oil-free, vegan cornbread. Spread with a light drizzle of honey if you love a bit of extra sweetness. Cut open while still hot and savor every chewy crumb. After searching and searching for a good oil-free cornbread recipe, I finally had to …

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Chickpea Rice Soup- Vegan, Oil-Free

This Chickpea Rice Soup, which is vegan, oil-free, and delicious, is easily one of my family’s favorites. My daughters like it with a little bit of salt (but no pepper!) and my husband and I add pepper but usually no salt (sometimes I’ll have a bit.) My husband, who is more diehard “Esselstyn” than I …

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Chewy Gingerbread Spice Cookies

I LOVE ginger spice cookies- the chewier the better. I worried that I wouldn’t be able to find a recipe that satisfied my taste buds and was also oil-free. I adapted this recipe from this one posted by the Cleveland Clinic, from Dr. Esselstyn’s Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease book. When I’m making these sweeter …

Breakfast Esselstyn Holidays No Oil Recipes Scones & Muffins Sweets Vegan

Fastest, Easiest, Yummiest Plant-Based, No-Oil Sugar-Free Pumpkin Scones

We love baked goods around here, yet after discovering Dr. Esselstyn and his research, we knew typical white flour, sugar, oil/butter and salt were no longer things we wanted to regularly consume. Inspired by the drop-scone recipe in Robin Robertson’s 1000 Vegan Recipes cookbook, I heavily modified it and exchanged oil for applesauce, and added cinnamon and pumpkin. …