Elation

Fake Egg Salad (”Egg” bean salad)

I finally did it! I made fake egg salad. Vegg salad, Fegg salad, we decided Vegg sounded better. Realistically its just a bean salad. But really, tastes just like egg salad, same texture, the whole shabang.  I made a pretty big tub of it (for pickathon weekend!) so I’ll try and scale down the measurements. 

Ingredients: 

Chickpeas(one can is probably perfect, I cooked mine from bulk, turns out it takes forever to cook chickpeas, also they need to be soaked, easier to just do canned I think)

Extra firm tofu (one tub should be enough)

Vegan mayo

Yellow mustard

Tumeric 

Kala Namak black salt (tastes like egg, sulfur babyyyy)

Dill

Celery

Pickles 

Red onion 

Salt

Pepper 

The Process: 

If you’re starting with raw chickpeas, soak for at least an hour before cooking them... 

Here’s probably a better way of describing this: http://thewimpyvegetarian.com/my-pantry/cooking-chickpeas-from-a-dried-form/

While the chickpeas are cooking, cut tofu into skinny pieces and place on cutting board with a paper towel layer on it.  Tofu is usually pretty watery, even if its firm, we don’t want a watery egg salad so let the paper towel soak up the extra tofu water.  Chop up whatever veg you would like to add to the salad. I chopped up probably half a red onion because I love red onion, but into tiny tiny little pieces.  I also chopped up a couple tiny pickles and celery, both into teeny tiny pieces.  I like crunch in my egg salad but I like it to be mushy at the same time.  Anyway, do what you like the most.