Review of Agar 100% Pure Powder - NOW Foods by hbchic
Homemade vegan caviar with homemade vegan sushi anyone?🥢 (I also semi-pickled my own ginger here. I used horseradish because I didn't have wasabi.)
Agar comes from marine red algae. To use it as a thickening agent it comes conveniently in powdered form. You use this instead of animal gelatin. You can get fancy and creative with this stuff and try making something out of the ordinary. The world wide web has plenty of cool recipes.
Usually if you wanted to get into molecular gastronomy you would need to get calcium cholride (a natural salt from limestone). 👩🔬Plus, that stuff is not easy to find and would likely have to be an online purchase. That would be the alternative method of making vegan caviar as well as vegan egg yolks that run when you cut into them. Pretty cool stuff! The agar is easier and more accessible but it will solidify the entire liquid you are working with.
Side note: The category noted isn't quite accurate but I couldn't get around that.🙃
One more thing, the agar doesn't have a notacable flavour so you don't have to worry about an "algae" flavour for any newbies. It can be used in sweet or savory recipes.
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