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Cooking with cannabis is a fat substitution — you swap butter for cannabutter and the rest is ordinary cooking. So every recipe here stores the fat it needs and the dose it targets, and works out the split once it knows how strong your oil is.

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17 recipes matching “pepper

DessertStandardNo cookNo smell

Peppermint patties

An uncooked fondant of confectioners' sugar and coconut oil, chilled hard and dipped in dark chocolate. Firm centers are the whole game — a soft patty smears in the bowl and comes out a lumpy puddle.

Contains peppermint extract

Written for

5 mgper patty

30 patties · 30 min

DrinkStandardNo smell

Golden milk

Warm spiced milk with turmeric and black pepper. Made in one pan in five minutes, with nothing hot enough to hurt the infusion.

Contains black pepper

Written for

5 mgper mug

2 mugs · 8 min

SauceLowNo cookNo smell

Basil pesto

Made in a food processor, no heat at all. Keeps a week in the fridge and doses pasta, eggs or bread by the spoonful.

Contains salt and black pepper

Written for

2.5 mgper serving

8 servings · 10 min

SideLow

Brown butter mashed potatoes

A side dish carrying a modest dose, for a table where not everyone wants dessert. The butter goes in off the heat.

Contains salt and white pepper

Written for

2.5 mgper serving

6 servings · 35 min

SauceLowNo cookNo smell

Buttermilk ranch dressing

Mayonnaise, buttermilk and soft herbs whisked into a pourable dressing. Because it is spooned onto an individual plate, each person decides their own serving, which is the most forgiving arrangement there is.

Contains salt and black pepper

Written for

2.5 mgper tablespoon

24 tablespoons · 10 min

MainStandard

Creamy tomato soup

Canned tomatoes cooked down with onion and garlic, blended smooth, then finished with cream and a slug of olive oil once the pot is off the burner. Ladling measured bowls is what keeps the servings honest.

Contains salt and black pepper

Written for

5 mgper bowl

6 bowls · 55 min

SideLow

Garlic butter green beans

Blanched until they still snap, then tossed in infused butter off the heat. A side dish that carries a light dose for a table where not everyone wants a brownie.

Contains salt and black pepper

Written for

2.5 mgper serving

6 servings · 15 min

MainStandard

Herb butter salmon

Roasted salmon finished with a compound butter that melts over the top. The butter never sees the oven, which makes this one of the most potency-efficient ways to dose a dinner.

Contains olive oil, salt and black pepper

Written for

5 mgper fillet

4 fillets · 22 min

SnackLow

Honey glazed spiced nuts

Roasted first, glazed with infused honey after they cool. Infused honey is less efficient than fat, so this leans on the glaze going on cold rather than being baked.

Contains cayenne pepper

Written for

2.5 mgper serving

12 servings · 35 min

SauceLowNo cookNo smell

Lemon garlic vinaigrette

A three-to-one vinaigrette that doses a salad by the spoonful. Keeps a week in the fridge and lets everyone at the table pour their own.

Contains salt and black pepper

Written for

2.5 mgper serving

8 servings · 5 min

SauceStandard

Marinara sauce

A long-simmered tomato sauce with the oil stirred in at the very end. Freeze it in portions and it doses pasta, eggs or pizza for a month.

Contains salt and black pepper

Written for

5 mgper serving

8 servings · 55 min

MainStandard

Mushroom risotto

The butter goes in at the end, off the heat, beaten hard into the rice. That final step is a technique risotto has always used, and it happens to be ideal for an infusion.

Contains salt and black pepper

Written for

5 mgper serving

4 servings · 50 min

MainStandard

Shakshuka

Eggs poached in a spiced tomato sauce. The infused oil is stirred in off the heat at the end rather than used to build the sofrito, which is the difference between keeping your dose and simmering it away.

Contains red bell pepper, salt and black pepper

Written for

5 mgper serving

4 servings · 40 min

DrinkStandardNo smell

Spiced hot chocolate

Proper hot chocolate made with real chocolate rather than powder, which gives the fat somewhere to hide and keeps the dose suspended.

Contains cayenne pepper

Written for

5 mgper mug

2 mugs · 10 min

AppetizerLow

Spinach artichoke dip

A hot, savory dip for a table where nobody wants dessert. The infused oil is folded in before it goes to the oven and the bake is short and gentle.

Contains salt, black pepper and chili flakes

Written for

2.5 mgper serving

8 servings · 37 min

SideLow

Sweet potato fries

Roasted hot in plain oil, tossed in infused oil after. Roasting temperature is about twice what an infusion tolerates, so the dose goes on at the end.

Contains salt and black pepper

Written for

2.5 mgper serving

4 servings · 40 min

AppetizerLowNo cookNo smell

Whipped feta dip

Salty, thick and ready in five minutes. The oil goes in last and gets whipped right through, which is what keeps the dose even across a shared bowl.

Contains black pepper

Written for

2.5 mgper serving

6 servings · 10 min