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The Best Egg Substitute in Baking

A healthy alternative to substitute eggs in baking cookies, brownies and biscottis
Prep Time4 minutes
Cook Time1 minute
Total Time5 minutes
Course: Basic
Cuisine: Baking
Author: Sonal Gupta @ simplyvegetarian777

Ingredients

Ingredients to make Flax Meal

  • Flax Seed {Alsi / Ulsi ke Beej} - 1/4 cup

Ingredients to make Flax Jelly to substitute 1 egg

  • Flax Meal /Powder/Flour - 1 tablespoon
  • Warm water not hot - 3 tbsp

Instructions

Method to make Flax Meal at home

  • Take 1/4th cup of flax seeds and grind them to a fine powder or meal or flour like consistency. Use a good quality grinder. I use my cuisineart spice grinder.
  • One Fouth of a cup (1/4) of flax seeds will yield approximately 1/2 cup of FLAX MEAL or flour.
  • Store it in an AIR TIGHT container or jar, in the refrigerator.

Method to make Flax Jelly to substitute eggs in a recipe.

  • Egg = 1 tbsp Flax Meal dissolved in 3 tbsp warm water.
  • Eggs = 2 tbsp Flax Meal dissolved in 6 tbsp warm water.
  • Eggs = 3 tbsp Flax Meal dissolved in 9 tbsp warm water.

Take the warm water in a bowl and dissolve the flax meal in it.

  • Let it sit for 3-4 minutes. You will notice that the mixture turns into a kind of JELLY in texture, which is ready to be used to substitute eggs in the recipe.

How to use the flax meal jelly in the recipe?

  • When you are following a recipe to bake cookies, muffins, pan cakes, waffles, brownies or biscottis, this is what needs to be done.
  • The recipe "reads"- add eggs now and at that point you will add the Flax Meal Jelly.
  • That's it! You will follow the rest of the recipe as is, substituting eggs with the FLAX JELLY.
  • Bake as per the instructions given.
  • Nothing else changes in the recipe.

NOTES

  • You may use either brown or golden color flax seeds. It doesn't matter.
  • The texture of the baked product will be slightly different from the original, since eggs add lightness also to the baked goods. Nonetheless, I have never had my family complaining about it.
  • Enjoy going EGGLESS with your bakes now.