Plant-based cooking courses

This comprehensive 90-day online course is designed to empower home cooks, healthcare professionals, and food enthusiasts with the knowledge and techniques needed to create vibrant, nourishing meals rooted in a whole-food, plant-based lifestyle. With an emphasis on low fat, no oil, low salt, and low sugar cooking, the course focuses on using minimally processed ingredients to maximize both flavor and health benefits. Participants will learn not just what to cook—but how to cook with confidence and creativity using foundational culinary techniques.

Led by experienced plant-based chef educators, this immersive training offers over 70 hours of high-quality instruction, engaging videos, interactive assignments, and hands-on practice. You’ll explore professional-level methods that are accessible to all, from knife skills and flavor balancing to advanced meal planning and presentation. You’ll also receive lifetime access to the course, allowing you to return to lessons and resources at your own pace, along with a Certificate of Completion to showcase your learning.

This course offers foundational instruction in plant-based culinary arts. With a focus on the application of core techniques in the plant-based kitchen, the experience will allow you to explore and practice a variety of recipes and flavors from around the world. The course begins with a quick set-up to get you started cooking right away including dry-heat cooking, moist-heat cooking, and grilling. A full introduction to core techniques for cooking vegetables, grains, bread, legumes, and meat and dairy alternatives is followed by a culinary world tour of plant-based foods and flavor principles. The course also covers advanced raw techniques, fermentation, and addresses health-supportive cooking with no oil, low sodium, and gluten-free options. A variety of Rouxbe Rx Wellness Menus that target specific health concerns will be offered, along with a variety of other professional resources and downloadable teaching materials. It is approved by the American Council on Education (you can earn 6 college credits), and you can also earn 195 CEHs through the American Chef Federation, the Association of Nutrition and Foodservice Professionals, and the World Association of Chefs Societies.

In this course you will learn about how exciting plant-based cooking can be. We will help to arm you with the tools needed to live and eat a plant-strong diet — from basic knife skills, to basic nutrition, to learning about how to convert or substitute recipes. You will also learn how to begin integrating more plant-based ingredients into your daily life, both inside and outside of your own kitchen. This course will also teach you about steaming, sweating, sautéing, braising, how to make salads, how to cook grains and legumes and so much more. Oh yeah, did we mention that you will also get to cook a whole bunch of delicious dishes as well.

With a growing obesity epidemic, concerns over how strongly various foods correlate to disease and general concerns over additives or modifications to our food, people are increasingly turning to plant-based foods to enable healthier lifestyles.

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Rouxbe, the world’s leading online culinary school, has joined forces with The Plantrician Project, a non-profit dedicated to developing educational events, tools and resources for physicians and clinicians.

Culinary Rx is an online instructional cooking and nutrition education program that healthcare professionals prescribe to their patients for prevention and lifestyle health. Their joint mission is to provide the tool that aims to empower patients through their transition to a healthier, whole food, plant-based way of living.

This course will help people navigate the many challenges inherent in moving away from foods that harm, to foods that truly have the power to heal and drive optimal health.

Essential Vegan Desserts is an online course based on Fran Costigan’s popular Vegan Baking Boot Camp. This 90-day course focuses on essential techniques and recipes so you can create professional quality vegan desserts with confidence. The course starts with an explanation of key equipment, ingredient selection and function, and foundational techniques for creating desserts without the use of eggs and dairy. As you progress, learning activities and practice recipes will showcase your ability to prepare and finish an array of vegan desserts ranging from gels, mousse and puddings, cookies, cakes, pies and tarts, pies, cakes, tarts and cookies. You’ll learn to use aquafaba, make sauces and creams, and create component desserts.