What is Cook for Love?
Cook for Love is a culinary project dedicated to providing support, resources, and education to individuals, families, and clinicians managing Phenylketonuria (PKU). Our site provides low-protein recipes from Cook for Love founder Brenda Winiarski, favorite low-protein recipes from Virginia Schuett’s cookbooks, Malathy Ramanujam of Taste Connections, and many others.
Is there a membership fee?
Nope! All of our recipes are 100% free.
What do you have in your low-protein pantry?
This was such a popular question that we created a page to showcase the products and gadgets we like best.
When baking, how do you adapt a recipe to make it low-protein?
It really depends on the recipe. The first thing you need is a great starting place — a recipe that is tried and true. I wish there were a magic formula where one ingredient was simply swapped for another with guaranteed success, but that has not been the case. Wheat starch and xanthan gum typically replace the majority of the flour in a recipe. Eggs are trickier — I always reduce them but cannot always eliminate them and still get results I am happy with. They serve many functions: binding, leavening, moisture, and flavor. It is about figuring out what role they play and how to mimic it with a smaller amount or a substitute. It is a lot of trial and error, but lately it only takes me a few tries instead of a few years!
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