10+ Easy JUST Egg Recipes Ideas: Baking And Cooking (2024)

FAQs

How to use JUST Egg in baking? ›

Their website says “Just Egg works in a wide variety of baking applications, with a few exceptions, such as light, airy cakes and meringues.” It also says their product can be used as a 1:1 substitution for regular egg in a recipe—so about 3 tablespoons of Just Egg is equal to one large egg.

Season to taste

Season with freshly ground black pepper and garnish with chives or green onions. Serve immediately. Note: Kala namak black salt is a sulfurous salt that adds an extra eggy flavor. It can be found online or at specialty grocery stores.

Just Egg is a plant-based vegan egg substitute that can be used as an ingredient in recipes that call for eggs, as well as scrambled and eaten on its own.

What Eggs Do in Baking Recipes. Eggs play an important role in everything from cakes and cookies to meringues and pastry cream — they create structure and stability within a batter, they help thicken and emulsify sauces and custards, they add moisture to cakes and other baked goods, and can even act as glue or glaze.

Just Egg is a mung bean-based vegan egg substitute. The inaugural product comes in a bottled, liquid egg form that can be scrambled, fried, and baked in much the same way a whole chicken egg can.

Why? The product was tested on animals prior to being approved by the FDA. Since cosmetic products that are tested on animals aren't considered vegan, then technically, Just Egg is not vegan.

You can freeze JUST egg. You can expect it to retain its flavor, quality, and texture very well after freezing, but the company doesn't recommended freezing. Many people freeze JUST Egg with little impact on its quality.

JUST Egg is made predominantly with mung beans. While it is heavily processed, it does have an expiration date and it will go bad.

Just Egg is located in the refrigerated section and does need to be kept in there when it is not in use. The product comes with a screw on/off lid and you do not need to use all of it at one time; however, when you are finished, it does need to go back in the refrigerator.

Is it OK to eat just eggs? ›

Although eggs are nutritious, the egg diet doesn't have enough variety or calories to be considered a healthy or sustainable way of eating. With such restriction, weight regain is likely.

Boiled, scrambled (soft or hard), poached, baked, basted, fried, shirred, coddled, pickled (as in quail eggs) and used to make omelets, quiche, frittatas, and soufflés. Eggs go into cake batters, quiches, breakfast burritos, toads-in-a-hole, and are used to make mayonnaise and hollandaise.

Wash hands, utensils, equipment, and work surfaces with hot, soapy water before and after they come in contact with raw eggs and raw egg-containing foods. Cook eggs until both the yolk and the white are firm. Scrambled eggs should not be runny. Casseroles and other dishes containing eggs should be cooked to 160° F.

Why? The product was tested on animals prior to being approved by the FDA. Since cosmetic products that are tested on animals aren't considered vegan, then technically, Just Egg is not vegan.

JUST Egg recently removed soy lecithin (a stabilizer and emulsifier common in plant-based foods) from its pourable products in retail locations with production underway to produce a similar version in food service formats.

Yes! Just Egg works wonderfully with boxed cake mixes. Substitute 3 tablespoons of Just Egg for every large egg in the recipe or 4 tablespoons for every extra-large egg.

Can I Substitute Real Eggs for Egg Substitute? One egg equals 1/4 cup egg substitute. You can almost always replace substitute with real eggs, but the reverse is not necessarily true. Some egg substitutes are egg whites with added ingredients for color or texture.