Agar 100% Pure Powder

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Agar powder is a tasteless, colorless, and odorless, vegan substitute for gelatin. It's derived from

red seaweed and it can be used in any recipe that calls for gelatin.
The other day we were having friends over, and we wanted to make some vegan sushi, and I also wanted it to be really pretty, so I thought I'd embellish it with some vegan caviar. A few years ago I tried a vegan caviar from a company called Caviart. From what I remember the caviar just tasted salty, but I wasn't really buying it because I missed caviar, and it was pretty so that was the important thing. But when I looked for it online, a small jar was $10 to $15, which I didn't want to spend, so I decided to make my own vegan caviar.
The process, called spherification, is very easy, quick, and inexpensive. But most importantly, making these vegan caviar pearls is a blast, and a perfect activity to do if you have children!
All you need is some agar agar powder, a liquid of choice (it can be anything you like - sweet or savory), and some oil which you can reuse so it doesn't go to waste.
You just heat up the liquid with the agar agar, and drop little droplets into a cold glass of oil. The caviar pearls solidify on contact with the cold oil, and as they're traveling down the glass they form perfect little spheres. The whole process takes about 10 minutes, and at the end you have these lovely little caviar pearls to embellish your vegan sushi with!
You can make all different colors and flavors. Pictured here are caviar pearls made with turmeric powder, blood orange juice, blueberry juice, carrot juice, soy sauce, and wasabi. The possibilities are endless!
You can find full instructions here:
https://theveganfeast.com/2023/04/20/vegan-caviar/

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theveganfeast

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Agar powder is a nice vegan thickener and a great replacement for gelatin. I use

it in pie filling, but there are a lot of uses.

ddelly

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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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