If you’ve been running into roadblocks while trying to make vegan recipes that call for buttermilk as an ingredient, then you’re in luck! This quick and easy vegan buttermilk substitute works great in a pinch.

How to Make a Vegan Buttermilk Substitute

Combine the ingredients. Add the soy milk and lemon juice into a large measuring cup and stir to combine.
Let mixture sit for 10 minutes. As tempting as it is to go straight into your recipes, this part can’t be skipped.

How to Use This Vegan Buttermilk Substitute in Recipes

The good news is that you don’t have to worry about doing anything special or trying to figure out replacement ratio amounts if you’re using vegan buttermilk instead of regular buttermilk.

You can simply swap vegan buttermilk in at a 1:1 ratio, meaning if a recipe calls for one cup of buttermilk, you can just straight up replace it with one cup of vegan buttermilk instead.

Is Buttermilk Healthier than Regular Milk?

Both buttermilk and regular milk are incredibly similar in their nutrient content, meaning they’re both quite nutrient-dense options.

Buttermilk tends to have slightly less calories and less fat than regular milk, but even that can vary wildly depending on the different brands of buttermilk out there.

For this specific vegan buttermilk, you’ll be getting the following great health benefits:

Excellent source of essential vitamins and minerals like calcium, potassium, and vitamins A, B12, and D.
The same amount of protein as regular milk but with far less calories from the soy milk.
It may even help to protect against heart disease thanks to flavonoid antioxidants found in the lemon juice. (1)

Can I Freeze This Vegan Buttermilk Substitute?

One of the great things about buttermilk is that it just so happens to freeze quite well. This is actually pretty handy, especially if you seldom use it in your recipes and you don’t want it to go bad in the fridge before you need to use it again.

If you want to freeze your buttermilk, just make the recipe as normal and wait for your mixture to sit for 10 minutes. Then pour the buttermilk into an airtight, freezer-safe container before keeping it in the freezer.

When frozen like this, you can expect this vegan buttermilk to last for up to 1-2 months.

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