Vegan Cooking: Environment Friendly Cooking

You’re totally mistaken if you consider that vegan cooking means all you eat are green colored foods. Green actually means more than the colour of food which vegans eat. Furthermore, you’ll be environmentally conscious and striving to eat healthy by consuming vegan cooking.

Let’s draw line between a vegetarian and a vegan first before going into specify about vegan cooking. Vegetarianism is a diet which prohibits all kinds of animal flesh, from meats to fish to even shell fish. However, it may include eggs and other dairy products. It depends on what category of vegetarian you are.

On the other hand, veganism is more extreme. A vegan is not allowed to eat, drink, wear, or even use anything that derived from an animal. They even prohibited consuming a result of animal labor; which includes milk and honey.

Now if your assuming that vegan cooking will be a bit difficult because of the lack of a wide range of ingredients then you couldn’t be more wrong. Actually, vegan cooking can be a gentle wind and the food is totally great!

The beginning to vegan cooking is not an easy one, but you have to start somewhere if you want to go vegan. Knowing how to substitute eggs is a good place to start with vegan cooking

Lacking Eggs

There are a couple of stuff you can replace eggs with but so far these 3 has been my favorites

Silken tofu is a great egg substitute. It’s easily obtainable in any supermarket, health food shop, grocery store, or your neighborhood Asian grocery. ¼ cup blended silken tofu equals to about 1 piece of egg. The thing is though you have to blend the silken tofu well so that there won’t be any chunks left. Silken tofu is great for cheese cakes, brownies, cakes, and those rich sauces you so love! Plus it has no after taste.

Another great option for an egg stand-in is Flax-seeds. You can ground your own flax-seeds or you can buy pre ground ones from health foods stores. Mix 2 ½ tablespoons flax-seed to get an equivalent of 1 egg; the result is a fluffy looking white thing that resembles an egg white.

Flax seeds however are not always good for vegan cooking as they have an earthy sort of granola taste. But it’s great with whole grain foods like oatmeal, or for pancakes, and muffins. It’s also good for any of your spicy dishes only if the earthy taste won’t mar your food’s flavor.

An unexpectedly good substitute for eggs in vegan cooking is bananas. ½ a blended banana is equal to one egg. The clincher though is that everything you put this into will taste like, what else? The common fruit, bananas.

You can browse the bookstore, library, or internet to find out various tasty vegan cooking recipes, and vegan cooking alternate ingredients. This article is just intended to confirm you that there are ways to turn the problems of not including any animal by product in food without giving up the taste of course. If you need more information, please explore links on this Vegetarian Code site.