Vegan Eggs

I have been wanting to try making vegan eggs for a long time now! It look so impossible that I kept putting it off. I found this recipe on the “exceedingly vegan” blog. It was actually very easy, and worked! So often I find a recipe on line and it actually does not work.

So thanks to Philippa for this one.

I am amazed how ‘real’ they look. In his recipe Philippa uses avocado shells for his moulds but I have these mini sauce boats which were perfect. I just very very lightly oiled them and the egg halves popped out perfectly.

Also, these are I suppose what you call ‘boiled eggs’ in that the centre is a bit soft. I happen to like this, but if you want a harder ‘yolk’ you can add a bit of cornstarch ( 1 t) to the ‘yolk’ part.

Ingredients:

For the white:

• 150 grms silken tofu
• 150 grms unsweetened soy milk
• 2 T nutritional yeast
• 1 T olive oil
• 1 t (heaped) agar agar powder (not granules)
• 1/2 t (heaped) kala namak (indian salt)

For the yolk:

• 25 grms silken tofu
• 3/4 t fine polenta
• 1/4 C water
• 1 T olive oil
• 3/4 T nutritional yeast
• 1/4 t turmeric powder
• 1/2 t kala namak
• 1/8 t garlic powder
• 1/2 t tomato paste

What to do:

• Blend all the white ingredients very well in a high speed blender.
• Pour into a pan and cook on medium high heat for about 5 minutes, stirring constantly so it does not stick or burn.
• Pour into your moulds, cool and let set in fridge.
• Once the whites are set, scoop out a small section from the middle of each (I used a melon-baller).
• Blend all the yolk ingredients well (this amount was very small so I used a vertical jar and a stick blender).
• Pour the yolk mixture into a pot and cook for 5 to 10 mins till it starts to thicken a bit. (The amount is so small I put it in a glass jar and microwaved, stirring after each 30 seconds)
• Pour into the hollowed out white halves.

I think they tasted great. Of course you can bum up the flavour as you want. The tomato paste is just to make the yolks a more orangy yellow.

We plan to use these in a vegan salad nicoise at one of our upcoming vegan pop up dining experiences. Check out Green and Vegan Cape Town on FB.

Bon Apetit