Rouxbe’s plant-based cooking courses focus on the core techniques and fundamentals that support healthier cooking habits over time. Whether you’re setting fresh intentions for the year or deepening existing skills, our expert-led, self-paced online lessons serve home cooks, culinary professionals, and physicians alike.
Learn to cook toward better health, one plant-based lesson at a time.
Intro to Plants
Your introductory course to plant-based cooking. Designed to build confidence starting with a focus on core cooking techniques followed by plant-based approaches like steaming, substitutions and more. If you're interested in learning more about a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle, this is the online cooking course to start.
- For beginner-to-intermediate levels
- Earn 48 CEHs from the Association of Nutrition and Foodservice Professionals
- Pairs well with Essential Vegan Desserts course
- Financing, or gift cards available
Plants Professional
Developed with world-renowned plant-based chef and activist Chad Sarno, this is the most comprehensive plant-based cooking course ever created. In addition to helping plant-based home cooks, this certified online cooking course is equally well-suited for chefs looking for professional development, health and wellness coaches, life coaches, and nutritionists.
- For intermediate-to-advanced levels
- Pairs well with Essential Vegan Desserts course
- For WFPBNO, we recommend Plants Protocol (Coming Sept 2025).
- Monthly subscription, financing, or gift cards available
Blue Zones Longevity
This is a plant-forward, longevity-laden cooking course developed directly with Dan Buettner, Blue Zones founder. The five original blue zones–the places in the world with the healthiest, longest-living populations, including Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia, Italy; Nicoya, Costa Rica; Ikaria, Greece; and Loma Linda, California. Inspired by the Blue Zones cultures, his cookbooks, and his lifestyle, this course provides culinary foundations along with exclusive Blue Zones content from Dan.
Plants Protocol
This is not just another plant-based cooking course. Our Plants Protocol at-home, self-paced online culinary training is designed specifically for individuals following the strictest therapeutic protocols or seeking a proven preventive lifestyle that offers more. It's great for caregivers, nutritionists, and dietitians too. Plants Protocol is also an ACF quality program and one of a few WFPBNO cooking courses offering CEH credits upon 90-day completion.
- For beginner-to-intermediate levels
- Take as standalone course
- Earn CEHs from the American Culinary Federation Education Foundation
- Financing or gift cards available
Plants Rx
Created with The Planatrician Project, a non-profit dedicated to developing educational events, tools and resources for physicians and clinicians, this is a plant prescriptive course available for those needing to shift to or prescribe a more health-supportive diet and lifestyle. It's highly recommended for clinicians to support their patient communities and offers the ability to prescribe this whole food, plant based nutrition course.
- For beginners
- For a no salt, no oil option, we recommend Plants Protocol over this Plants Rx.
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- Financing or gift cards available
Trusted by a community of home cooks, professional chefs, physicians, restaurant owners, life coaches, authors, and more.
More than 1 million learners globally have trusted Rouxbe to build confidence in the kitchen. Whether cooking at home or professionally, students choose Rouxbe for learning that adapts to their goals, pace, and style.
Rouxbe is different from start-to-finish.
Technique.
Most cooking courses start with recipes. Rouxbe starts with technique. You’ll learn the plant-based fundamentals professional chefs rely on—building confidence, adaptability, and the ability to make better decisions every time you cook in whatever kitchen you choose.
Cooking.
Rouxbe is designed for online, video-first learning, so you can cook on your schedule without the cost or commute of a traditional culinary school. Each lesson includes professional chef feedback and access to instructors for questions, providing guidance as your skills develop.
Finished dishes.
The result is more than a completed recipe. You finish each course with real, repeatable skills—plus access to a variety of thoughtfully developed plant-based recipes that help you apply what you’ve learned and cook meals that look polished, taste satisfying, and support better health over time.
Don't forget desserts.
Essential Vegan Desserts
Transform traditional desserts with egg- and dairy-free alternatives from renowned vegan pastry chef Fran Costigan. By joining forces with Rouxbe, Fran brings her critically acclaimed Vegan Baking Boot Camp Intensive® into the online world to reach pastry enthusiasts around the globe. After learning about key equipment, ingredient selection and function, and foundational techniques, you'll graduate with a “Fran Factor."
- For beginner-to-intermediate levels
- Earn 50 CEHs from the American Culinary Federation Education Foundation
- Take as standalone course or after Plants Base course
- Financing or gift cards available
