Yes it’s true! Follow Your Heart recently created a product called The Vegan Egg. It’s a plant-based egg replaces that works well in baking or on its own. I decided to test it’s ability to mimic a scrambled egg: The true test.
The Vegan Egg is packaged in a small egg carton. The shape is universally recognizable as an egg carton. Inside, however, is a bag of yellow powder. I whisked a bit of the powder with cold water, as instructed on the package. It sure looked like an egg.
I pushed it around the pan until it was fluffy. It took longer than it takes an actual egg to cook (10 minutes probably).
I tasted a bit. The texture was spot on! It wasn’t as “eggy” in flavor, which I found was a good thing. If you like more egginess, add a bit of kala namak (black salt from an Indian grocery).
I put my egg in a taco with crumbled Field Roast Sausage and Parmela Creamery aged vegan cheddar shreds because I recently bought The Taco Cleanse cookbook and met real taco scientists and tacos seems like a great way to start the day.
So what is the egg made of? Algal. That’s a type of algae. It’s got fiber and complete amino acids and is nutrient dense. My only complaint is that it’s over-packaged. It could be sold in a small bag and would be cheaper and less wasteful. I realize that the packaging is part of the draw. Maybe online reorders could be no frills.
I’ll make a quiche next!
Looking forward to finding out how the quiche turns out 🙂
That looks deelish! Glad to see you’re getting started on the taco cleanse. 😉
Ooh, interesting! I wonder how it compares to the Vegg – it’s the only one I’ve tried, and I haven’t been very experimental with it, using it only has a ‘soft boiled egg mix’ to dip toast in, classic comfort food from when I was a kid.
I want to try making French toast with it, that’s something I really miss since going vegan. We had company yesterday and Daniel brought a vegan cheesecake that Daiya makes – honestly – BETTER than dairy cheesecake! Our guests loved it and they didn’t know till afterward when we told them it was non-dairy cheesecake. ❤
Love it! Definitely a game changer and the closest thing, at the moment, to real eggs! I’m also looking forward to trying Hampton Creek’s Just Scramble!
Oh yeah, Just scramble is on the list! Loving all these options!