Ida Gran-Jansen shares her best tips – NRK Vestfold and Telemark – Local news, TV and radio

Ever since last summer, there have been fewer eggs than usual in Norwegian shops.

Now Easter is just around the corner. A holiday many associate with eggs, both for decoration and on the dinner table.

Ida Gran-Jansen would by no means call herself an “egg expert”, but the author and food influencer is happy to share some tips on what can be used as a substitute.

PS: At the bottom of the article you can share your best tips for foods that can be used instead of eggs!

Gran-Jansen is currently working on a new family cookbook where one of the recipes is coarse waffles.

She received several questions about what could possibly be used as a substitute for eggs in these waffles.

– Then a reader tipped me off that she uses chia seeds in the waffles. It should work just fine, but I’m not sure what properties these seeds have that enable them to replace eggs.

Uses eggs in oatmeal

The TV profile, which became a familiar face when she went to the top in the reality series “Hele Norge baker”, also has several tricks up her sleeve.

– I have heard from several people that you can use chickpea brine as a substitute for eggs when making meringue.

– Chickpea pickle?

– Yes, you take a can of chickpeas and use the sheet the peas are in. This is whipped stiff and should then work in the same way as eggs, says Gran-Jansen.

She emphasizes that she rarely uses alternatives to eggs when cooking.

– I actually use a lot of eggs, for example when I serve oatmeal to my children.

– And they don’t react to that?

– They don’t notice it. You just have to try it yourself. Crack an egg and stir it into the porridge, she encourages.

– Eats 27 million eggs at Easter

Norwegians eat enormous amounts of eggs during Easter, according to a press release from Matprat.

– It’s a bit difficult to put the numbers exactly, but we assume that we eat about one egg a day during the red days. In total, this amounts to approximately 27 million eggs in total, says analysis manager Gunnar Thoen.

Soft-boiled and hard-boiled eggs top the list of the most popular ways to prepare eggs at Easter.

Many possibilities

Author and food influencer Gran-Jansen herself has had difficulties in getting hold of eggs in recent days.

– When I visited the store yesterday, they were sold out of the eggs I usually buy. In another store I visited, they didn’t have eggs at all.

However, she doesn’t think Easter will go the way the hen kicks, even if the shops run out of eggs.

– There is a lot you can make without eggs. I have never really understood why there is so much focus on eggs at Easter. I don’t think people eat more eggs than at other times of the year, but there may be many who paint eggs, laughs Gran-Jansen.

What foods can replace eggs? Leave your best tips in the comments!