Vegans eat food that only comes from plants. In addition to excluding meat, this also means no dairy products or eggs, food products that go into making blueberry muffins. But with a few substitutes, you can whip up vegan blueberry muffins in no time. Add this to my Recipe Box.
Instructions
1. Practice vegan cooking in order to be familiar with acceptable food substitutes. Sometimes, successfully cooking vegan is just a matter of experimenting with different substances until you find the right one for the recipe.
2. Replace the eggs in your blueberry muffin recipe with an egg substitute. In muffins, eggs bind the ingredients together. You can do that with an egg replacer like Ener-G Egg Replacer found at your health food store or other binding agents like 1/4 cup of applesauce or pureed bananas.
3. Choose vegetable oils or non-hydrogenated vegetable margarines to replace the butter called for in blueberry muffin recipes. Vegetables oils work best to match the liquid consistency that melted butter provides to blueberry muffin batter.
4. Explore alternatives to traditional milk. You can find both soy milk and rice milk in liquid or powdered form. New milk products appear on the market all the time, with more choices even in your regular supermarket.
5. Practice being healthy by using healthy ingredients. Eating vegan is also a way to practice a healthier lifestyle. Substitute other blueberry muffin ingredients with healthier alternatives. Rolled oats or unbleached flour work as well as regular white flour. You'll notice a tastier difference when you buy organic blueberries.
Tags: blueberry muffin, blueberry muffins