Protein Substitute???
Posted by Valdus on Oct 06, 2010 · Member since Oct 2010 · 25 posts
I wanted to make this recipe because I suddenly found myself with alot of oats and peanut butter (long story)- but WHAT IS A PROTEIN SUBSTITUTE that one can use in a bar like this???
Oatmeal Protein Bars
Ingredients (use vegan versions):
3 cups oats
8 servings protein substitute (??????????)
12 tablespoons peanut butter (or your favourite nut butter, I like almond)
1.5 cups milk substitute
substitute equal to 2 egg whites
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
Suggestions?
That looks like it's from vegweb. Dang, that's a bad recipe.
It read like a copied recipe, so I searched around online and came up with a similar one. There are a couple of places it's different, other than the protein powder. One is the peanut butter, but 12 tablespoons is equal to 3/4 cup. The other is the milk. The recipe I found takes 1 cup milk and the vegweb version takes 1-1/2 cups nondairy milk. You may start with 1 cup and then add the additional 1/2 cup if you think it needs it to hold together.
Here's a list of egg substitutes, if it helps --> Egg Substitutes
I have three protein powders (pea, rice, and hemp) on hand at my house. The pea and rice powders weren't helpful, but the hemp powder is about 30 grams every 1/4 cup. I think that is about 1 cup + 2 tablespoons or so of protein powder. Visually, the hemp powder appears to be a bit denser than the other two, so I'd do a 1 to 1-1/2 cups, depending on which protein powder you use.
3 cups oatmeal
140 grams protein powder
3/4 cup peanut butter
1 cup milk
2 egg whites
1 cup apple sauce
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
I was going to suggest hemp powder as well so I'd follow what HH said.