How To Make Homemade Aquafaba Recipes

HOW TO MAKE AQUAFABA

Steps:

• Pick through chickpeas to remove any rocks or bad chickpeas. Rinse with fresh water.
• Add rinsed chickpeas to a large bowl and add enough water to cover the chickpeas. Cover the bowl with a tea towel or plate and let soak for at least 8 hours or overnight.
• When the soaking time has ended, drain the water and rinse the chickpeas again.

AQUAFABA MAYONNAISE

Steps:

• Place aquafaba, apple cider vinegar, salt, mustard, and stevia in a tall Mason jar. Using an immersion blender, start blending while slowly streaming in the oil. Blend until mayonnaise is thick and creamy, about 2 minutes.

HOW TO MAKE AQUAFABA (ULTIMATE GUIDE)

Steps:

• Vigorously shake the unopened can of chickpeas, and then open and drain the beans, reserving the liquid. If there are lots of little bits of beans in the liquid, pour it through a fine mesh strainer to remove them.
• Lightly whisk the liquid, and then measure out the amount of aquafaba you need. As a guide, when substituting a whole egg, you will need three tablespoons of liquid. When substituting one egg white, you will need two tablespoons.
• Choose how you would like to add the aquafaba to your recipe: lightly whisked or whipped.
• For lightly whisked, add the measured out liquid to a wide bowl and beat by hand with a wire whisk until it looks frothy, about 1 minute. You do not need to add the cream of tartar.
• For whipped aquafaba, add the measured amount to a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment. Add the cream of tartar, and then turn the mixer on. Whip on high speed until your desired fluffiness. This takes some time so be patient. We usually stop mixing after 4 to 5 minutes. To tell when it is properly whipped, remove the whisk and turn it upside down, soft peaks will hold at first and then slowly melt back into themselves after a second. Firm peaks will hold and look more distinct, but the tips will still fold back on themselves. Be careful not to over whip as this can cause it to loose all of it's airiness and deflate.

HOW TO MAKE AQUAFABA

Steps:

• Drain your chickpeas and reserve the liquid - then you have aquafaba! Place in a large mixing bowl to whip!
• The trick to whipping aquafaba is using a hand or stand mixer! Whisking it by hand takes quite a long time and does not produce as good of results. Another trick is to throw in 1/8-1/4 tsp cream of tartar, which causes the aquafaba to whip up much easier, faster, and makes the peaks firmer.
• Whip your aquafaba to desired thickness. It generally requires 3-6 minutes to get to semi-firm peaks, depending on your equipment and how thick your aquafaba was to begin with. So take your time and don't be discouraged if it takes some time to reach stiff peaks.
• Aquafaba can be used in a number of ways: 1) It can be added to recipes UNWHIPPED as an egg binder, such as in these Vegan Gluten Free Sugar Cookies. 2) It can be whipped into semi-soft peaks and added to recipes as a whipped egg white substitute, such as these Vegan Gluten Free Waffles! 3) It can be whipped into stiff peaks and made into things like Easy Vegan Macaroons and meringues (recipe to come!). It can also be used to make Vegan Mayo!
• Because aquafaba is such a recent discovery - only in the last few years - there are tons of uses that are yet to be explored yet! So be creative, use these methods and recipes as a starter guide, and go from there! If you discover new creations, share them down below in the comments!