It is sometimes necessary to give up eggs if you are adhering to vegetarianism, as well as if you have allergies, when you need to exclude this product from your diet. Of course, you can just not eat eggs. But they are used in the preparation of a very large number of dishes. In order not to deny yourself the pleasure of pampering yourself with your favorite delicacies and dishes, you can replace the eggs included in their recipe with other products.
Briefly about the role of eggs in cooking
Eggs are a part of very many dishes and perform not even one, but several important functions at once:
- they are a good baking powder for dough;
- they link together several components of one dish;
- eggs also serve as a thickener in the preparation of sauce or cream;
- they give a special taste to the dish, and are also used to decorate it.
Products that can replace eggs in baked goods
You can replace eggs, and so well that the taste of the dish will not suffer. This is especially true if only 1 egg is needed for cooking. In other cases, the absence of this ingredient will be more noticeable.
Instead of eggs in baked goods, you can use:
- baking soda;
- table vinegar;
- oat flakes;
- potato starch;
- sour cream;
- kefir;
- lemon juice;
- baking powder;
- vegetable oil;
- ground flaxseed;
- oatmeal;
- turmeric;
- sugar dissolved in tea.
So, here are some tips that will surely help you.
1. To make the dough light, and the pastries without eggs turned out fluffy and tasty, add 1 tsp to the dough. soda, diluted in 1 tsp. vinegar.
2. Add 2 tbsp instead of an egg as a binder in a filling (eg fruit pie). oatmeal, pre-soaked in 2 tbsp. water.
3. Pastries are often garnished with cream. To make a cream without using eggs, you need to dissolve potato starch in water at the rate of 50 g per 1 liter of cold water. Then add this mixture to the cream to be prepared, stirring constantly.
Boil the cream mixture without using eggs until the required consistency is reached. Moreover, it is important to take into account that when it cools, it will thicken a little more.
4. When preparing pancakes without eggs in milk, add sour cream to the dough, and replace the vinegar with kefir or lemon juice.
5. When baking pancakes, muffins, biscuits, replace the eggs with 2 tsp. baking powder, 2 tsp. water and 1 tbsp. vegetable oil.
6. When preparing tortillas, to avoid cracking, add a mixture of 1 tablespoon instead of eggs. ground flaxseed with 2 tbsp. hot water.
The mixture is added to the tortilla batter after it has completely thickened.
7. Add 1 tbsp to the curd cakes. potato starch, 1 tbsp. sour cream or vegetable oil, mixed with 1 tbsp. water. The addition of these products will not allow the pancakes to lose their shape.
8. To preserve the beautiful appearance of the vegetable casserole, it is recommended to add a few tablespoons of well-boiled oatmeal before baking it, which can significantly improve the taste of this dish.
9. Sometimes eggs are added to the dough to give it a yellowish tint, for example, in the cake dough. In this case, add a small amount of turmeric spice instead of this ingredient.
10. Pies and pies, before being sent to the oven, are usually greased with an egg, which makes them shiny and beautiful. You will achieve the same effect if you brush the baked goods with a mixture made from 1 tablespoon. sugar dissolved in a quarter cup of tea.
You can exclude eggs from the diet, you can replace them with other products. This will not impair the taste of the finished dish, but it will add variety to your diet and solve your problems with the use of eggs.
