I Didn’t Have Eggs

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But I thought bananas were eggs :( (infosec.pub)

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[–] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I'm a vegan of 4.5+ years.

I've looked online many a time for vegan alternatives to recipes. Some are good. Some are shit.

I've learned that if you still want to make good food as a vegan, sometimes that involves learning substitution "tricks" that can be used to turn a non-vegan dish into a vegan one.

For eggs, I've mostly heard that you can replace those with soaked chia or flax seeds. You use the pectin that dissolves out of the seeds as the binder.

I have also seen people only claim that apply sauce or bananas are good vegan substitutes for egg. I haven't really tried that out before in it's own, but I imagine that the combo of ( soaked chia/flax seed + banana/apple sauce ) is what emulates eggs the most. You get the binding power from the seeds, with the wet nature from the banana or apply sauce.

FYI, vegans look for ways to "veganize" dishes all the time, especially at restaurants. Seldom do I want to take my friends or family to vegan-only restaurants because they tend to have "fat vegan" food. I'm better off enjoying a meal with them at a vegetarian/omnivore restaurant, which may or may not have vegan options. You have to learn to make substitutes on the fly to maintain your practice.

Just my 2¢

[–] proudblond@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Oh sure, I totally get that. I’ve used flax seed and applesauce in baking recipes before because I didn’t have an egg or whatever. But in this case I’m a little baffled because I liken it to a a vegetarian trying to find substitutes for a steak. (Which, yeah, I suppose scientists are trying to do just that.) When you’re substituting an ingredient that is performing a function, like a binder, that makes a bit more sense to me. But when it’s a key flavor ingredient in a dish, I don’t really get why one would bother, or at least they shouldn’t be surprised if a substitution didn’t work and it shouldn’t reflect badly on the original recipe. All that being said, I also respect vegetarians and vegans for doing something that I’m not willing to do myself!