Egg Substitute

Just a little check in with how my food journey has been progressing. 

Still meatless, still consuming little bits of dairy here and there, but mostly I've been pretty good.

While I don't eat dairy at home, there were still some store-bought products that contained eggs and butter.

From time to time, we like to get bakeries from a Korean pastry shop near our home and most likely they are made with non-vegan ingredients. We bought milk bread and I also had a vegetable croquette and twist donuts the other day but other than that, I think I've been choosing the vegan dairy route.

Another thing we like to do is make a variety of "jeon" - which people like to describe as Korean pancakes but I'm not sure if that's such a good comparison. The batter is prepared mainly with flour, eggs and water and you can add things depending on what kind of jeon you want. You can go with Asian chives or scallions, kimchi, seafood, shellfish or even meat, including beef or pork, or mixing the vegetable with your choice of either seasfood or meat. I can it can be pretty versatile. The egg plays a binding role and while I have read that certain fruits can act as an egg substitute, I found something else at the market instead.

The Neat Egg (also found on Amazon - don't worry, this isn't an affiliate link and I don't get paid to include links in my blog posts - if I do, it's always stated within the blog post).

The entire bag is equivalent to 18 eggs and all you do is just add water and mix and use it in recipes where egg is a binder. It's made from just two ingredients - chia seeds and garbanzo beans. 

So simple and we haven't had issues making our favorite types of jeon with it. And it tastes exactly how we like it.

A couple of days ago we made buchu jeon (buchu is Asian chives). Usually the Korean grocery sells these in a big bunch and so there is always leftovers. We like to take care of it buy splitting the leftover buchu in half and making buchu jeon with one bundle and buchu kimchi with the other.

Oh and jeon is paid with a soy sauce dip that you can mix with vinegar, sesame oil and I also like to add onions, scallions, green peppers, sesame seeds and red pepper flakes as well. 

Happy eating everyone.

What's been on your dish lately?