Spreadable Olive Oil Vegan Butter

This is perfect for homemade breads. For any of you out there who need homemade anything add this to your list!

This is some awesome stuff! especially on some homemade bread. Thanks!

I've definitely picked up anything ... Thanks for sharing!

This butter is amazing! We've used it in a few of our recipes, and we really like it!

I'm always on the lookout for great ways to use olive oil in my healthy lifestyle.

Great recipe! So much healthier than regular butter.

Thanks for sharing! This is perfect for a quick snack without the guilt!

This was very easy to make and tastes exactly like real butter! I did take a suggestion from another commenter and replace half the olive oil with another oil (I used canola) because I was concerned the olive oil taste would be more pronounced than I like. I made a double batch before bed, put them in the back of the freezer, and when I woke up I had 4 perfect, non-grainy sticks of butter!

This is genius. I was missing my butter after I went vegan so this is so useful. Going to try it asap!

This recipe looks dynamite!

This is awesome Thanks!!!

Thanks so much, this is a great product. I usually double the recipe, so I can fill my old store-bought container in one go - this is what I got when I added everything up (doubled it) and weighed on the scales as I went. Putting it here because I recently lost my battered up bit of paper with my original conversions on it and have been in a flap looking for it since...

140ml (140g) soy milk
10ml (10g) apple cider vinegar (I don't have coconut vinegar)
8g salt
15g lecithin granules (I don't have the liquid)
1 heaped tsp or about 2g psyllium husks

190ml (160g) coconut oil
180ml (140g) olive (canola for mild taste) oil

The vegan oil is better than the normal oil

I've made this a few times and have used pea milk instead (the guy who brought us Method cleaning products is now doing vegan mylk). I am trying to avoid soya, and found that using only coconut vinegar instead of apple cider vinegar really gives a mild taste (my stepdaughter, who is almost 9, found the apple cider vinegar version too vinegary). I too am trying to cut the salt, as I used to buy unsalted butter before, but overall, a fantastic butter/margarine alternative. Thanks for this! :)

I would like to make this, but I'm finding the measurements confusing,
e.g. 1/4 cup + 2 teaspoons + 1 teaspoon. Is it one of those measurements or each one as the (+) represents (and/plus) to me not or. I'm even confusing myself now ?.

So very salty! Will probably make again but cut the salt in half or omit altogether.

Hi Mattie, I love your butters, spreadable or not...just wondering though, have you tried vegan lactic acid in any of your butters? I've seen some recipes where this is used instead of vinegar. I'm wondering if it would give more of a "buttery" taste, it being "lactic" or is there not much difference? I know the lactic acid powder would definitely be more expensive than vinegar. Thanks for all your great recipes.

I was wondering as other people did if you can let us know what can we use to replace the soy milk, can I use almond milk, rice milk?

Hi Matt,
Thanks a lot for all the amazing recipes. Have you ever tried this butter with anything besides soya milk? Allergic to soya so was hoping for a substitute.

Thank you so much for going into detail about the science behind what ingredients were chosen - I found it extremely interesting! I made your butter and I am in LOVE! As someone who hasn't eaten meat in five years, one of the hardest things I've found about cutting out eggs and dairy entirely is all of the ingredients that have animal by-product in them. This recipe is fabulous! I love the taste of olive oil, so I didn't find it over-powering at all (my parents have been buying "rich taste" for years!). Thank you so, so much for posting all of your awesome butter recipes, I have really enjoyed reading them and learning more about what goes into the science (and taste!) of butter!

Hi, this recipe looks fab. Can anyone advise if they think I could substitute the coconut oil? I have been advised not to use it but would to make a vegan spread that I can use on a daily basis that is natural. I live in the UK and I can't find anything without added palm oil or Coconut oil Thanks in advance for any replies.

I am on my way to vegan, nearly there, but do miss my butter! Finally got around to making this O O spread. Yummo! Satisfies my yen for butter. It was an ad, "Milk separates Families" that was a deciding factor in my journey to being Vegan. I made the spread in my Thermomix,...one thing, my soy lecithin granules did not quite 'dissolve'... Next time, I will grind them first, & maybe I didn't process on a high enough speed, but hey, I'm a happy camper! Thanks so much!

This is a great recipe and a wonderful addition to our vegan pantry. It's easy to make and tastes so close to the real thing! We have avoided the synthetic vegan butters from the store so it's been a real treat to have butter on fresh bread again. Thanks!

I'd like to try this, but can you post metric quantities please. The idea of measuring out "¼ cup + 2 Tablespoons + 1 teaspoon" of a solid fat makes me laugh - it would take half the morning! Just use digital scales and it will take seconds.

Mine looks like the picture, and is spreadable, but tastes like coconut oil. This is disappointing.

I'd love to try this recipe, but was wondering if you could suggest a soymilk substitute that would work well in this type of recipe. I have an allergy to soy. Thanks!

I read the reviews before I made this, and decided to use half olive oil and half canola oil. I'm glad I did - I could definitely taste the olive oil but it wasn't overwhelming. I think that if I had used all olive oil, it would have been too strong. The olive oil taste was not as strong after the spread cooled completely. I also cut the salt - I had just made the vegan butter and thought it was a bit too salty. I don't have much a taste for salt so it may be fine as written if you like things salty. As others mentioned on the butter page, I soaked the soy lecithin granules with the soymilk and vinegar, which I think made them dissolve better.

With these small tweaks, the spread is delicious. It tastes much more rich and fresh than tub vegan spread. I've used it as a spread on toast and for cooking. My husband (not vegan) uses it to cook eggs and says it's as good as butter. I'll definitely keep making this over buying earth balance!

Well I made this but unfortunately I made it with really strong virgin olive oil and neither I or my husband liked the taste much. However I then made it again with neutral tasting rapeseed oil (plus a mix of Maldon salt and sel de Guerande) and ended up with a bloody delicious spread that spreads out of the fridge. Pretty much what I've been looking for. Matty you are a splendid chap!!

I absolutely adore your butter recipes and the passionate curiosity that drives them. I have just made your olive oil butter and am about to make the miso tahini one again as it's a favourite spread and it keeps really well. I do have one request. I live in England and am used to measuring in grams and ml and find the measuring of your recipes the trickiest part. Could you show the liquids measured in ml and solids in grams? And what I'd find really helpful would be to have the coconut oil in grams as it is solid at room temperature here and I can make it liquid as I blend it with my hand held blender - that way it's still pretty close to room temperature without me having had to melt it and then cool it again slightly. Again thank you so much for sharing all your wonderful culinary experiments.

You may also contemplate that mayonaise is generally a form of Jellied Oil. Regular mayo has a bit of essence to it, but it's not difficult to think about producing homemade mayo in a way that particularly reduces the addition of other tastes. I can attest that a grilled cheese made by placing mayo on the outer faces of the bread works just fine.