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