Today we show how to make homemade vegan buffalo sauce using simple pantry ingredients. It’s bold, flavorful and shiny – perfect for dipping and icing your favorite foods. And it’s ready in just a few minutes!
Traditional buffalo sauce is a mixture of melted butter, sugar, vinegar, and hot sauce made with cayenne pepper, paprika, and garlic. It’s rich and flavorful, with an unmistakable vinegar kick. However, because buffalo sauce is made from butter, it is unsuitable for those on a plant-based diet or those with dairy allergies.
But don’t worry, we made this sauce vegan with two simple changes! First, we swapped out melted butter for vegetable oil; Second, we heated the sauce with some starch to restore the glossy appearance and thickness that was lost with the butter. Simply!
Most buffalo sauce recipes, vegan or not, use Frank’s Red Hot as the base sauce, which contains cayenne pepper, distilled vinegar, and garlic. But making it yourself from scratch is so easy and cheap that we think it’s worth trying. Plus, you have complete control over ingredients like salt and sugar, which means you can make it healthier too. We will show you how to do this in the following steps.
In our recipe, we also replaced white sugar with a dash of maple syrup, which includes weight for weight 40% less sugar. Our delicious buffalo sauce is not only vegan but also sugar free and gluten freesafe for everyone to enjoy.
Prepare a large batch of this fiery sauce and store sealed in a jar in the fridge. It will stay fresh for months thanks to the preservative effect of the vinegar. All you have to do is enjoy this healthy buffalo sauce! Try it with our Tempeh “Wings”, marinate with tofu or drizzle over roasted vegetables. We also love it with our plant-based burgers and as a dressing in wraps and salads.