A vegan poached egg? No $%#@ing way!
March 18, 2006 8:53 PM Subscribe
Does anyone have a recipe for a poached "egg"? The only catch... for a vegan.
Based on popular demand (at least tonight) I mentioned that anything is possible with tofu. Someone mentioned an egg-mcmuffin (sic) type product and, unknowingly, I said it was possible.
However, I can't find a recipe. Please help me prove that I wasn't a blowhard (which is difficult). Thanks.
Based on popular demand (at least tonight) I mentioned that anything is possible with tofu. Someone mentioned an egg-mcmuffin (sic) type product and, unknowingly, I said it was possible.
However, I can't find a recipe. Please help me prove that I wasn't a blowhard (which is difficult). Thanks.
(forgot to mention I have never tried this recipe. I googled for "vegan mcmuffin")
posted by jahmoon at 9:04 PM on March 18, 2006
posted by jahmoon at 9:04 PM on March 18, 2006
FYI: They actually have a vegetarian egg in a shell now in gourmet and natural food stores. Haven't tried it yet, but I plan to...out of curiosity.
posted by smartypanties at 12:15 AM on March 19, 2006
posted by smartypanties at 12:15 AM on March 19, 2006
Just off the top of my head...
I would just reccomend some soft, silken tofu, cut into a little slab, seasoned a bit (with nutritional yeast, or maybe a little garlic powder, or just salt and pepper). You will probably not get a perfect egg taste, but you can probably get close to a poached egg texture with that, as well as having it be falvorful. Melt fake cheese over it, serve with faux canadian bacon on a english muffin.
If it is not necessary to create the exact mcmuffin, poached egg ideal, I'd reccomend making a tofu scramble and serving that with the fake cheese, canadian bacon and english muffin.
This is making me very hungry!
posted by piratebowling at 2:15 AM on March 19, 2006
I would just reccomend some soft, silken tofu, cut into a little slab, seasoned a bit (with nutritional yeast, or maybe a little garlic powder, or just salt and pepper). You will probably not get a perfect egg taste, but you can probably get close to a poached egg texture with that, as well as having it be falvorful. Melt fake cheese over it, serve with faux canadian bacon on a english muffin.
If it is not necessary to create the exact mcmuffin, poached egg ideal, I'd reccomend making a tofu scramble and serving that with the fake cheese, canadian bacon and english muffin.
This is making me very hungry!
posted by piratebowling at 2:15 AM on March 19, 2006
you could make one although i doubt the process is worth it. here is how I would do it: I would make the white out of konyakku mixed with soy milk and the yolk out of emulsified oil water and maybe some tumeric. by freezeing the yolk mixture and then putting the frozen ball in the konyakku as it was setting you would get the perfect cooked white/uncooked yolk poached egg. there are many things you can do with konyakku, agaragar, kanten, and tofu. Anything can be done in the food world, just look at the ingredients list of any complicated product, there are many tricks.
posted by Infernarl at 7:42 AM on March 19, 2006
posted by Infernarl at 7:42 AM on March 19, 2006
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posted by jahmoon at 8:59 PM on March 18, 2006