Try these easy homemade pantry staples for when you are in a pinch or make it part of your normal routine.
There are so many things you can make in your own kitchen. And it doesn’t have to be complicated. Plus, the homemade version is always better than the store-bought stuff, right?
This list of easy recipes will save you a trip to the grocery store. Whether you are looking for sauces and salad dressings or snacks to stock the pantry, these from-scratch versions are so simple but so delicious.
Homemade Pantry Staples: Condiments
Homemade marinara sauce is fresh, light, and bursting with flavor. It really elevates any Italian-inspired meal and makes the perfect spaghetti sauce. It is made with simple ingredients that are all pantry staples, and is much easier to make than you would think.Â
Marinara Sauce
The best whole berry cranberry sauce recipe is made by simmering cranberries with the juice and zest of an orange and then sweetened with honey. It is the perfect side dish for your holiday meal.
Homemade Cranberry Sauce
Once you learn how to make homemade barbecue sauce from scratch in the comfort of your own home, it will be a staple recipe you reach for again and again.
Homemade BBQ Sauce
Homemade fermented ketchup is one of the easiest ferments to make and will easily take your backyard BBQ up a notch in flavor.
How to Make Homemade Fermented Ketchup
This fermented hot sauce is spicy and tangy hot sauce with a complexity of flavors and beneficial probiotics and a kick of heat.
Fermented Hot Sauce
Learn how to make homemade mayonnaise with avocado oil. All you need is oil, eggs, lemon juice, mustard, and salt.
How to Make Avocado Oil Mayo
Bypass the overpriced jars in grocery stores and learn how to make ghee at home. Its high smoke point, rich buttery flavor, and long shelf life make it a great addition to your cooking and baking.
Homemade Ghee
Creamy, tangy, and bursting with herbs, this ranch salad dressing will quickly become a family favorite on salads, as a dip, and more!
Ranch Dressing
Homemade poppy seed salad dressing is bright and delicious, with the perfect balance of sweet honey and tangy vinegar.
Poppy Seed Dressing
Bursting with tangy flavor and a subtle sweetness, this lemon salad dressing is great on top leafy greens or roasted veggies.
Lemon Vinaigrette
This delicious homemade honey mustard is a great dipping sauce or spread for your favorite foods, and perfect on a garden salad.
Honey Mustard
Blueberry vinaigrette is a simple, delicious salad dressing bursting with sweet and tangy flavors.
Blueberry Vinaigrette
This super simple three ingredient, homemade peach preserves (aka peach jam) recipe is one of the tastiest ways to enjoy peaches. No pectin needed.
Homemade Peach Preserves
This jalapeño jelly recipe is a sweet and spicy spread packed with flavor. Fresh jalapeños and a combination of bell peppers come together to create a sweet and spicy jelly.
Jalapeño Jelly
Homemade strawberry jam, sweetened with honey, is one of our favorite ways to enjoy those sweet summer strawberries all year long. It’s the ultimate way to top freshly baked bread or biscuits.
Strawberry Jam
This healthy apple butter recipe is a go-to fall favorite in the farmhouse. It takes less than an hour to whip up and has no added sugar.
Apple Butter
This easy blueberry sauce recipe is one of our favorite ways to enjoy fresh or frozen blueberries. It’s a simple, sweet, and delicious topping for yogurt, ice cream, pound cakes, pancakes, and more.
Homemade Blueberry Sauce
This easy recipe comes together in just minutes and is tangy and slightly sweet addition to tacos, salads, sandwiches, and more.
How to Make Quick-Pickled Red Onions
Homemade fermented pickles couldn’t be easier or more delicious. This makes the best tasting, probiotic, mildly sour pickles.
Homemade Pickles
Homemade sauerkraut recipe is an easy and gut healthy way to get probiotics. The perfect side to a meal, this fermented raw sauerkraut will become a staple.
Homemade Sauerkraut
Homemade Pantry Staples: Baked Goods
Tangy, crispy, and perfectly salty, these homemade, cheesy, herb-seasoned sourdough crackers are a super fun and delicious. These crunchy crackers are fun to make, easy to customize with a variety of herbs and different flavors, require only basic ingredients, and are a feel-good snack to serve on their own or as part of a charcuterie board.
Sourdough Crackers
The best croutons you have ever tasted, these homemade sourdough croutons are tangy, seasoned perfectly and baked until they achieve the signature crunch.
Sourdough Croutons
This homemade sourdough granola is uniquely tangy, lightly sweetened, and full of healthy fats from wholesome ingredients. The addition of sourdough starter and your favorite add-ins means lots of crunchy clusters in each bite of this delicious snack.
Sourdough Granola
Soft and fluffy sourdough sandwich bread is the perfect bread to have on hand. Made with all purpose flour, sourdough starter, butter, and a little honey.
How to Make Sourdough Sandwich Bread
Homemade sourdough discard bagels made with sourdough discard have a deliciously chewy texture. The perfect way to start a morning.
Sourdough Discard Bagels
Homemade whole wheat tortillas are soft and pliable with a nutty, wheat flavor and just the right amount of chewiness. They are perfect for wraps, tacos, quesadillas, breakfast burritos, and more!
Whole Wheat Tortillas
Homemade Pantry Staples: Dairy
This easy homemade herb butter, also known as compound butter, is a great way to add a fresh burst of flavor to many dishes. This is a wonderful way to enjoy the freshness of the summer season even in the dead of winter. Pop out some compound herb butter from the freezer any time of year to spread on top of dinner rolls and enjoy those delightful summer flavors.
Herb Butter
Learn how to make cottage cheese with minimal ingredients in just a few simple steps. It’s a healthy and tasty snack when served with fresh fruit, a rich and savory addition to main dishes, and the perfect base for creamy and healthy dips.
Homemade Cottage Cheese
Follow this simple tutorial on how to make raw milk yogurt in the Instant Pot. Thick, creamy, and delicious, this raw milk yogurt recipe comes out perfect every time.
How to Make Raw Milk Yogurt
Homemade ricotta cheese is rich, but fluffy, full of flavor, but light in texture. It’s one of the easiest cheeses to whip up in your kitchen.
Ricotta Cheese
Knowing how to make Greek yogurt is a life hack that feeds your family, saves you money, and pats you on the back. Most importantly, homemade Greek yogurt surpasses store-bought yogurts every time in taste, texture, and quality.
Homemade Greek Yogurt
Make this easy homemade cream cheese to spread on bagels, dip veggies in, or add to recipes, like a classic cream cheese frosting. With just three simple ingredients, you’ll never have to buy the store-bought version again.
How to Make Cream Cheese
Make your own homemade sweetened condensed milk to bake with or to add to lattes for richer flavor. It just takes two ingredients you likely already have at home to whip this up!
Homemade Sweetened Condensed Milk
Farmers cheese is a tasty, mildly-flavored fresh cheese that is great for beginners and can be enjoyed the same day you make it. It can be enjoyed on its own, sliced atop bread, crumbled on salads, spread on crackers, or added as a filling in pasta dishes.Â
How to Make Farmer’s Cheese
Learn how to make easy and delicious homemade mozzarella cheese. This mozzarella recipe only takes about 30 minutes, and it is super delicious.
How to Make Mozzarella Cheese
Learn how to make raw milk butter in a blender with this easy tutorial. Raw grass fed butter is high in nutrients and beneficial enzymes.
Raw Milk Butter
Homemade whipped cream is easy and simple to make a tastes delicious on top pies, cobblers, cocoa, or any other dessert!
Whipped Cream
Learn how to make milk kefir with this simple tutorial. Milk kefir is a thick and tangy fermented milk that is rich in gut-healthy probiotics
Milk Kefir
This labneh recipe is one you will want to make over and over again. It is simple, creamy, and there are endless ways for it to be enjoyed.
Homemade Labneh
Homemade Pantry Staples: Baking & Cooking
Learn how to make a sourdough starter recipe from scratch with just flour and water. This versatile ingredient can be used to make breads, cakes, cookies, and so much more.
Sourdough Starter
Learn how to make vanilla extract at home with this very simple and cost effective tutorial, requiring only two ingredients and a little time.
Homemade Vanilla Extract
Make the best Instant Pot bone broth with this simple tutorial! Bone broth is nourishing and makes the most delicious homemade soup.
Instant Pot Bone Broth
Learn how to make lard. A smooth, creamy, and neutral fat perfect for baking, grilling, frying, and more. Solid at room temperature and liquid when warm.
Homemade Lard
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