How to Make a Recipe Vegan

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Becoming vegan does not mean you have to give up your favorite comfort foods or throw away your old cookbooks and recipes. It's not that difficult to make a recipe vegan. All it takes is some basic knowledge about vegan ingredients and how they work in baking and cooking.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderate
Step1
Identify dairy ingredients when baking a cake. Substitute rice milk or soy milk for regular cow milk in recipes.
Step2
Substitute a powdered egg replacement product or tofu for eggs.
Step3
Use tofu, seitan or textured vegetable protein in recipes that require beef or chicken.
Step4
Add a third bean variety in chili recipes. Add garbanzo beans to a chili recipe that includes kidney and pinto beans.
Step5
Try vegetable stock instead of chicken stock when making soups.
Step6
Select soy milk, rice milk or water to prepare oatmeal.
Step7
Substitute corn oil or olive oil for butter to make a recipe vegan.
Step8
Utilize soy milk in chowder or milk-based recipes. The difference is minimal, and you'll feel much healthier after eating.
Step9
Use agar flakes to make gelatin dessert. Most people don't realize that gelatin is derived from animals.
Step10
Omit meat from your favorite soup or chili recipe if meat is the only non vegan ingredient.
Step11
Look for vegan bread recipes rather than trying to make recipes vegan. Easy vegan bread recipes are plentiful.
Step12
Realize that substitutions aren't always straightforward. Sometimes it takes a while to determine what substitute ingredients will work in your favorite recipes.

Tips & Warnings

  • Don't be surprised if you ruin many recipes. Making a recipe vegan takes experimentation.

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teacup

teacup said

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on 8/22/2008 Great tips. New information about soy. Please check out Dr. McDougall on YouTube. Go to YouTube and in search type in: Dr. McDougall & insulin-like growth factor. also can go to http://www.drmcdougall.com

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