Super speedy & healthy Vegan Biscuits made with wholewheat flour, ground almonds & absolutely no oil. They can be baked up & ready in under 15 minutes!
These really quick, easy and Healthy Vegan Biscuits are from The Mindful Vegan by Lani Muelrath.
Back when I first started A Virtual Vegan, I featured Lani’s awesome Portobello Pot Roast recipe from The Plant-Based Journey and it has since become one of the most popular recipes on my website. It is so well loved amongst you all and for good reason. It’s a fantastic recipe.
Her new book, The Mindful Vegan, is a 30-day plan for finding health, balance, peace and happiness. It teaches you the techniques of mindfulness meditation, as a means of controlling mindless or compulsive eating which can affect your weight, health, food choices, and peace of mind.
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MOM’S BAKING POWDER BISCUITS WITH ALMONDS
As well as the 30-day plan for finding health, balance, peace and happiness, The Mindful Vegan contains a handful of recipes, one of which is this Healthy Vegan Biscuits recipe which in the book Lani calls “Mom’s Baking Powder Biscuits with Almonds”. I changed the name slightly here for SEO (or pleasing Google) purposes!
The recipe is based on her Mom’s go-to recipe for Strawberry Shortcake and has become a breakfast favourite in her family.
Unlike many Biscuit recipes, this one contains absolutely no oil or butter. It is made with only whole-wheat flour, ground almonds, baking powder, salt, plant-based milk and a little vinegar.
These Healthy Vegan Biscuits are so simple and quick to make. Within 15 minutes you can be pulling them from the oven.
Whilst they aren’t as indulgent as biscuits made with refined white flour and vegan butter, they bake up really nicely and make a great, much healthier alternative. The ground almonds add a touch of buttery richness and sweetness.
HOW TO SERVE HEALTHY VEGAN BISCUITS
It kind of defeats the healthiness of them, but they are awesome served warm with my Easy Vegan Butter and a splodge of jam. Chia Jam would make a great healthier alternative to regular jam.
As the biscuits aren’t sweetened at all they would also be great with gravy, tofu scrambles, vegan sausage, soups and chili. You could make an awesome cobbler type topping with the batter too.
This is why I am loving these Healthy Vegan Biscuits:
- They are incredibly quick to make (under 15 mins!)
- Because they are drop biscuits, there is no cutting out involved
- They are super healthy, whole-grain, sugar free and oil-free
- They freeze and reheat brilliantly
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Healthy Vegan Biscuits with Almonds
Super speedy & healthy Vegan Biscuits made with wholewheat flour, ground almonds & absolutely no oil. They can be baked up & ready in under 15 minutes!
Ingredients
- 180g / 1½ cups whole-wheat pastry flour
- 50g / ½ cup almond meal (you can easily grind up whole almonds in a food processor or blender until they are a flour type consistency)
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup plant-based milk
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
Instructions
Mix the vinegar with the plant-based milk and set aside for 5 minutes.
Preheat oven to 450°F.
Mix all dry ingredients together.
Add the soured milk, and mix until all ingredients are moistened; avoid over-stirring.
Drop large spoonfuls onto a nonstick baking sheet or one lined with parchment paper.
Bake for 10-12 minutes, until lightly browned.
Recipe Notes
The recipe above is at is in The Mindful Vegan book. I personally recommend adding a little extra salt, bringing the total amount to 1 teaspoon. I also found that they were much lighter and fluffier if you add ¼ teaspoon baking soda in addition to the baking powder already included.
I found an ice cream scoop perfect for spooning the mixture onto the baking tray.
Recipe excerpted from The Mindful Vegan: A 30-Day Plan for Finding Health, Balance, Peace, and Happiness (BenBella Books; October 2017)
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Sophia Hamilton says
Wonderful for an oil/butter free biscuit recipe!
A Virtual Vegan says
Thank you Alex. Glad you are enjoying them!
Alex Walker says
These are AMAZING! So light! So fluffy! So wonderful with Tomato Jam! Mine didn’t get very brown, or have the crunchy top I was looking for. Guess that means I’ll be making them a lot to keep working on my skills!
Aditi says
Hi Mel! This is n awesome recipe! I didn’t have pastry flour, so used regular whole wheat flour and they turned out perfect! Thanks for posting. Can you please include more whole food plant based recipes? Thank you 🙏🙏
A Virtual Vegan says
I’m so glad they worked out well for you with regular whole wheat flour. As for whole food plant-based recipes, take a look at the ‘oil-free’ section in my recipe index – https://avirtualvegan.com/category/recipes/oil-free/ Although not all of them are whole food plant-based, a lot are. I try to post a good variety so there is something for everyone. I just looked and 3 out of my last 5 recipes are whole food plant-based. I’m on a bit of a go-slow with recipe creating for the blog as I am working on a big project (announcement coming soon), but after that I will be sure to create lots more whole food recipes! Thanks so much for stopping by to leave feedback. I really appreciate it!
Shan says
Is pastry flour necessary or can you substitute it with all-purpose flour? This recipe sounds great, by the way!
A Virtual Vegan says
All purpose will be fine but pastry flour will make a slightly lighter biscuit.
Katie says
These are so good. I was looking for a way to make fluffy biscuits without using vegan butter replacement or oil and these are perfect. Thank you! They’ll be a favorite in my house.
A Virtual Vegan says
That’s great. I’m so glad you are enjoying them Katie!
Heidi says
This is such a great recipe, thank-you! I added a little nutritional yeast and that worked well too
A Virtual Vegan says
So glad you enjoyed it Heidi!
Amanda says
Could you use water as the liquid?
I can’t have almond, dairy or soy
A Virtual Vegan says
Usually when you use water in recipes like this the results aren’t as good, but I haven’t tried it in this recipe myself. There are lots of other plant-milks available to use other than almond or soy. Oat milk, cashew milk, coconut milk, rice milk, hemp milk etc. They are pretty easy to pick up in most stores. I even have a recipe for oat milk here on my site which is really easy to make: https://avirtualvegan.com/oat-milk/ . If you can’t have almond milk I take it you can’t eat almonds either. Did you notice these biscuits have almond meal in them? You could probably replace it with more flour and get an ok result but if you do I would be sure to use a fattier milk. Light canned coconut milk would probably work well. That way the fat lost from the almond meal would get replaced. Hope that helps!
AH says
Just made a batch for breakfast, because we didn’t have any bread left. They are amazing!!! Very fluffy, light and moist. I was expecting a dense dry bread type texture, but they really taste like biscuits. My kids loved them! And they really do take 15 minutes tops! Thie recipe is a keeper. Thank you
A Virtual Vegan says
That’s great! So glad you all enjoyed them. Making them is quicker than going out to grab some bread! Thanks so much for stopping by to leave feedback. I really appreciate it!
Stella says
Perfect!
A Virtual Vegan says
Thank you. So glad you enjoyed them!
Dave E says
could you substitute cashew meal for the almond?
A Virtual Vegan says
I haven’t tried it but I think it would be fine.