I’ve been experimenting a lot with homemade vegan bacon after discovering a new way to make it myself. I first came across laekon (aka, lovely bacon/vegan rice paper bacon) in a Facebook group I’m part of. The video showing how to make this vegan bacon is here and I have to take my hat off to to Kasper and Karina from veganer.nu for creating such an amazing thing! The idea behind this vegan bacon is to use rice paper, as in, the things you use to wrap spring rolls. You simply soak the rice paper in water to soften, then place it into a marinade which you can customise as you wish, and cook.
I’ve tried making the vegan bacon marinade a number of different ways, this time I ran out of liquid smoke but I still managed to get a nice tasty flavour. I recommend following Kasper and Karina’s recipe for the marinade (2 tbsp oil, 3 tbsp soy sauce, 6 tbsp nutritional yeast, 1/2 tsp – liquid smoke and water to thin down) but I have also added mustard, hot sauce and a little bit of ketchup and maple syrup to give a sweeter bacon taste. It is so customisable! I’ve been throwing this stuff into a carbonara (which will be coming soon!) and on vegan BLTs, it’s honestly so good and way better than the store-bought vegan and veggie bacon. I was browsing Pinterest and saw someone had used bacon to make onion rings, a light bulb went off in my head and I knew I could make my own version, minus the animal cruelty, cholesterol and terrible impact o...