Egg Replacer

Name: Egg Replacer
Prep time: 1 min
Cook time: 1 min
Total time: 2 min
Yield: 1 egg
Ingredients: 14.79 ml flax seed; 73.94 ml water

Submitted by pollen

"This is what I use instead of eggs in recipes for cookies and breads and stuff. It works pretty well at holding things together, and yet it is cheaper than eggs. This makes one egg worth."

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Ready In:: 2mins
Ingredients:: 2
Yields:: 1 egg

ingredients

14.79 ml flax seed
73.94 ml water

directions

Grind up the flax seeds in the blender until they are pretty fine (you don't have to do this, but they are less noticable this way).
Mix the seeds and the water and cook on the stove until it gets all jelly-like.
Remove from heat and let cool before using in cookies, muffins, breads, etc.

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Reviews

I only used 3 T water instead of 5 and did not boil it first - just added it to the yeast bread dough and went on. Turned out great. I would not skip the boiling if you arent making a yeast bread.

Nyteglori
This was a recipe-saver, as I was short one egg, and it worked beautifully! This will be my go-to egg replacer! Thanks, pollen!

Katzen
Works great

brandidt
I have used this in chocolate cake and it works well, though I only used 3 tbsps. of water instead of the 5. Thanks for posting, it beats using eggs all the time.

Chef Joey Z.
I had 3 xtra kids over (PICKY ones) and went to make pancakes for breakfast - AHH NO eggs in the house!- with ice outside I went to Zaar for help. I found this recipe and it works PERFECTLY! I have only used flaxseed in a granola recipe that I made months ago, so I was thrilled to find this and have it work. I used milled flaxseed and heated it until bubbley, let it cool and added it to the pancake mix. All of the kids devoured it and gave it a 5 star rating which is a miracle. THANK YOU for an easy fix, and to anyone who is afraid to try this please don't be, as I am a NOVICE cook! :)

Laura Myers

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I only used 3 T water instead of 5 and did not boil it first - just added it to the yeast bread dough and went on. Turned out great. I would not skip the boiling if you arent making a yeast bread.

Nyteglori