These vegan hard-boiled eggs (School Night Vegan) may be the ultimate plant-based swap! Made with silken tofu and kala namak (eggy-tasting black salt). Not only can you choose between a runny or hard yolk, but they have more protein than a real egg!
Learn more on the ethics of eggs (and some good alternatives). Before cooking, read up on keeping people & pets safe in the kitchen.
where to buy ‘vegan boiled eggs’
Neggst has created vegan ‘hard-boiled’ and ‘poached’ eggs with a runny yolk! Soon to go on sale, these are made with legumes, and the German company has secured millions of Euros in investment, suggesting you serve these with black salt, for that authentic eggy taste. California’s Yo Egg is similar (made with chickpeas) also in hard-boiled and poached versions.
WunderEggs (USA) is an interesting company that makes plant-based hard-boiled eggs from nuts, yeast, rosemary extract, spices and black salt. This makes a good ‘egg salad’ for sandwiches.
why don’t vegans eat eggs?
Even free-range eggs sometimes are from farmers who kill male chicks at birth (no financial value) or kill older hens when laying slows down. Commercial farming tends to rush when sexing the chicks, so sometimes they get mixed up. This is what happened during the pandemic when one woman bought three duck eggs (presumed unfertilised) from Waitrose. But they hatched (thankfully she knew what she was doing). She named them Beep, Peep & Meep!
