How to Choose the Right Vegan Egg Replacer

There are more compassionate, plant-based ways to replace eggs than ever before!

The right vegan egg replacer depends on what you are using it for in your cooking. Here is a comprehensive list of the best vegan egg replacers for everything you do in the kitchen: frying, baking, and more.

Vegan Egg Replacers for Leavening

Leavening is the property of making baked goods rise in the oven. It’s responsible for making baked goods light and fluffy.

• Cookies, muffins, soda bread, and more: 2 Tbsp water + 1 Tbsp oil + 2 tsp baking powder
• neat egg, made from chia seeds and chickpeas: 1 Tbsp + 2 Tbsp water
• Bob’s Red Mill Egg Replacer, made from soy, wheat, corn syrup, and algin: 1 Tbsp + 3 Tbsp water
• Just Egg, a liquid egg replacer with mung bean protein is designed to do anything eggs can do: 3 Tbsp
• Orgran Egg Replacer, made from potato starch and tapioca flour: 1 Tbsp + 2 Tbsp water
• Easy way to bake a vegan cake (it sounds bonkers, but try it): half a can of diet soda

Vegan Egg Replacers for Binding

Binding means holding the finished baked good together.

• Tried and true vegan egg replacer: 1 Tbsp ground flaxseeds + 3 Tbsp water
• No color or flavor, sets at room temperature: 1 Tbsp agar-agar + 4 Tbsp boiling water
• For thickening sauces: 2 Tbsp potato starch
• Essential in stir-fries: 2 Tbsp arrowroot powder
• Great in savory recipes like meatloaf: 2 Tbsp mashed white or sweet potatoes
• Perfect for vegan meatloaf, meatballs, or burgers: 2 Tbsp instant mashed potato flakes
• A wonderful meringue: 3 Tbsp aquafaba (in a mixer, blend 1 part canned bean liquid with 1.3 parts sugar until stiff peaks form)

Vegan Egg Replacers for Adding Moisture

• Chewy baked goods like cookies and brownies: 1/2 cup mashed ripe bananas
• Cookies, brownies, cakes, and muffins: 1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
• Cakes, muffins, cupcakes, and bread: 1/4 cup canned pumpkin or squash
• Savory recipes like vegan meatloaf, burgers, and meatballs: 2 Tbsp tomato paste
• For a creamy texture: 1/4 cup puréed soft tofu

Other Ways to Replace Eggs with Vegan Egg Replacers

• As a main dish: Tofu Scramble—crumble a block of extra-firm tofu and sauté it with diced veggies, nutritional yeast, turmeric, and other spices. Or try frying Just Egg — the liquid scrambles just like eggs stolen from chickens.
• As an appetizer: Devilled “eggs”—Halve and hollow mini potatoes, mix the hollowed potato with vegan mayo and spices, and add back into the potato skin. Top with paprika and enjoy.
• As a flavor enhancer: Black salt—also called kala namak, this type of salt gives an eggy taste to savory dishes.
• In pie crust: Raw vegan pie crust—pulse 2 parts nuts and 1 part dried fruit (dates, prunes, raisins, figs, etc.) in a food processor and press the blended mixture into a pie plate.

Egg production is unspeakably cruel, with hundreds of millions of chicken mothers’ loving instincts needlessly disrupted. Chicks hatch in massive incubators, rather than in their mothers’ bosoms. Males are killed by gas or by being ground up, and their sisters are doomed to repeat their moms’ unhappy, caged, and short lives.

Thanks to the tips in this vegan egg replacer guide, you can have compassion baked into everything you make!

For more tips, check out our Ultimate Vegan Baking Cheat Sheet and Easiest Vegan Cupcake Recipe!

For more tips, check out our Ultimate Vegan Baking Cheat Sheet and Easiest Vegan Cupcake Recipe!