Vegan Vegetable Scones Recipe. Gluten-Free and Regular Versions
Vegetable scones are ideally easy to make, hearty and delicious.
And not just for breakfast, but also like a mini meal. You can make them at the drop of a hat, and they are quite close to bread and quick bread, and every bit as satisfying. Vegetable scones – interchangeable with vegetable biscuits – also pack a great nutritional punch, and do not include eggs to begin with: the ideal vegan breakfast treat.
Although you can make these vegetable scones with regular flour (in this case, simply use 3 1/2 cups regular flour total, and no xanthan gum or tapioca), I just love the idea that they are so easy to make the gluten-free way, and that they can be made with a wonderful selection of flours: No potato starch if I can help it, and help it I can!
Feel free to explore with other gluten-free flours, just as long as you total 3 1/2 cups flour, including the tapioca: Rice flour, sorghum flour, quinoa flour, etc…
I am on a kick tinkering with sorghum flour. I love sorghum for the gritty texture it imparts to baked goods, especially if, as here, you include that little bit of vinegar for good volume.
Be sure not to forgo the nutritional yeast, this is what will give your “Un-cheesy” vegetable scones that cheesy je ne sais quoi in the flavor.
Ingredients
- 1 cup each: chickpea flour, oat flour, corn flour
- 1/2 cup tapioca flour
- 1 teaspoon xanthan gum
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil or coconut oil
- Good pinch salt
- 1/4 cup nutritional yeast (health food stores)
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 cup dairy-free milk (any DF milk of your choice: Coconut, soy, rice, etc)
- 2 tablespoons cider vinegar
- 1 cup mixed finely chopped vegetables, in any combination, any selection of 3-4 choices: Parsley, cilantro, dill, basil, scallions, carrot, kabocha
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Pinch cayenne
- 1 teaspoon oregano
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Cut the flours with the gum, oil, salt, nutritional yeast and baking powder, with your fingers or with a pastry cutter, until the mixture is the texture of coarse meal. Add the milk, vinegar, vegetables and seasonings and mix with your hands, briefly but thoroughly. Roll out the dough evenly, about 1/2 inch thick (not thinner). Cut out 3 inch circles with a large rim glass or a cookie cutter. Arrange the cut out scones on a baking sheet lined with foil or parchment, an inch apart. You will get about 16 vegetable scones total. Bake about 10 minutes, until the vegetable scones puff up and look dry on top.
The vegetable scones freeze very well. Reheat at low temperature until thawed, about 15-20 minutes.
I made this recipe gluten free and added baking soda to help them rise. I am dairy free too, so I substituted oat milk. Had to cook them 20 minutes. Afterwards, I split them and toasted them, and slathered in margarine. My family went wild for them! This recipe is a keeper!
I made a batch of these tonight and they didn’t rise at all. I used rice, garbanzo, and oat flour. I used full fat coconut milk from a can. Maybe I over mixed them. Anyway, even though they were flat and dense, they were still very delicious and I’d make them again – maybe I’ll do it right next time!
Laura, that your scones didn’t rise should be expected: all the flours you used are gluten-free.
Quoting from my recipe intro, I noted:
“Feel free to explore with other gluten-free flours, just as long as you total 3 1/2 cups flour, including the tapioca: Rice flour, sorghum flour, quinoa flour”
I instruct readers to ALWAYS include tapioca flour in gluten-free flour blends; it always lightens up the mix.
Try again, include tapioca, and mix minimally, until just combined.
Mmm, these look delicious,
I must make them!