How to Make Flax Egg

Making a flax egg isn’t nearly as complicated as it sounds. In fact, it’s one of the easiest tricks you can learn to quickly and very efficiently veganise your favourite baking recipes. Follow this step-by-step tutorial to find out how.

Vegan cooking isn’t complicated, but there’s no denying that replacing cow’s milk with almond milk, or yogurt with your favourite soy yogurt, is much more straightforward than finding the perfect substitute for an egg in a recipe. The kind of substitute you want to use depends on what it is that you’re making. Are you going after an omelette, sticky meringue or perfectly fluffy muffins?

Flax eggs work as the perfect egg replacement in most baking recipes that call for a whole chicken egg. This includes pancakes, cookies, cakes, breads, brownies, muffins and other baked goods.

What’s Flax Egg?

A flax egg is nothing more than ground flax seeds, or flaxseed meal, mixed with water until it thickens and turns into a slimy mush, very similar to a raw chicken egg. One flax egg is one part ground flax seeds and three parts water.

How to Make Flax Egg

1. Grind the flax seeds to make flaxseed meal.
2. Measure out 1 tablespoon of ground flax seeds.
3. Add 3 tablespoons of warm water.
4. Allow the mixture to sit until it thickens. This will take about 5 to 10 minutes.
5. Use your flax egg.

Where to Use Flax Egg?

A flax egg works well in pancakes, cookies, cakes, breads, brownies, muffins and other baked goods. If you have a non-vegan recipe that calls for an egg, try and replace it with a flax egg; there’s a good chance it will work. But if you’re not too keen on experimenting in the kitchen, it’s best to use this with recipes that have already been tested with a flax egg.

What Does Flax Egg Taste Like?

A raw flax egg doesn’t taste like anything, really. Sort of like a raw chicken egg doesn’t have a distinct flavour either. So when you use flax eggs in baking, they don’t add to the flavour, but they do make sure the texture is just what it should be.

Is Flax Egg Gluten Free?

Yes, of course. The only ingredient of a flax egg is flax seeds, which are gluten free.

Other Vegan Substitutions

• Aquafaba – vegan egg replacer
• Vegan buttermilk