These vegan scrambled eggs are made with chickpea flour instead of tofu for a filling and high protein breakfast scramble.
These vegan scrambled eggs don’t have any tofu!
The main ingredient? Chickpea flour.
Chickpea flour has a wonderfully eggy texture and when spiced the right way, can taste quite a bit like eggs. We used it for our vegan omelette as well.
So if you’re someone who would love a good vegan scramble but can’t do tofu, then this is right up your street. However, if you DO eat tofu, then you’ll definitely love our super ‘eggy’ vegan tofu scramble.
How To Make Vegan Scrambled Eggs
You will find full instructions and measurements in the recipe card at the bottom of the post. This is a summary of the process to go along with the process photos.
- Prepare your scramble mix, which is a mix of chickpea flour, soy milk (can be switched for almond milk), nutritional yeast, turmeric, dijon mustard, garlic powder, black salt (kala namak) and onion powder. Whisk it up into a smooth sauce.
- Add chopped onion to a frying pan with olive oil and sauté until softened.
- Add sliced mushroom and chopped tomato and sauté until softened.
- Then pour your scramble mix over your veggies and cook until it starts to firm up like a pancake. Then begin to scramble it and break it up and flip the pieces until everything is cooked and it resembles scrambled eggs.
- If the scramble begins to stick at any point, then add some more oil.
Ingredient Notes
Black Salt aka Kala Namak is a magical ingredient that makes things taste like eggs. If you eat some off your finger you’ll get a heck of a shock because it’s like eggs x 100. And not in a good way. Like super sulphery. But when added to recipes in a small amount, it’s awesome and makes things taste very eggy.
If this doesn’t sound good to you then you can just switch it for regular salt but I highly recommend you give it a try at least once. You can get it from Amazon if it’s not available locally.
Turmeric is just for color, so if you don’t want to use it you can just leave it out.
We used soy milk but you can replace this with a different non-dairy milk such as almond milk if you want this to be soy-free.
Pro Tips for Vegan Scrambled Eggs
Use a non-stick pan. This can get quite sticky. We tried it in a pan that isn’t non-stick and it stuck – badly! So switching to a non-stick pan made all the difference.
You still might need to add a bit more oil while you’re frying if it gets a little sticky, but non-stick is going to be the way forward here.
This is definitely best served fresh and hot and straight from the frying pan, but if you do have leftovers, they will keep for 3-4 days in the fridge. Just reheat them in the frying pan with a little oil.
More Vegan Breakfast Recipes
- Vegan Pancakes
- Simple Tofu Scramble
- Vegan French Toast
- Vegan Omelette
- Vegan Hash Browns
- Vegan Banana Pancakes
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Vegan Scrambled Eggs
Ingredients
- 1 tsp Olive Oil
- ½ Medium Onion White, Yellow or Brown, Chopped
- 1 Medium Tomato Chopped
- 1 ½ cups Mushrooms Sliced
Vegan Scramble Mix:
- ½ cup Chickpea Flour (46g)
- ½ cup Soy Milk (120ml) or other non-dairy milk
- 2 Tbsp Nutritional Yeast
- ½ tsp Turmeric
- 1 tsp Dijon Mustard
- ½ tsp Garlic Powder
- ¼ tsp Black Salt Kala Namak
- ¼ tsp Onion Powder
Instructions
- Prepare your scramble mix by adding chickpea flour, soy milk, nutritional yeast, turmeric, dijon mustard, garlic powder, black salt and onion powder to a measuring jug and whisking everything together well.
- Place a non-stick frying pan on the heat and add the olive oil and chopped onion and sauté until the onions are softened.
- Add in the chopped tomato and sliced mushrooms and sauté until softened.
- Pour your scramble mix over the veggies and cook until the mixture begins to firm up like a pancake. Then start breaking it up with your spatula and scrambling and flipping the mix until the whole scramble is cooked and no longer wet.
- If the scramble starts to stick at any point, add in a little more oil.
- Serve with toasted ciabatta, fresh avocado and sprinkles of black pepper and chives.
Notes
- Use a non-stick pan. This can get quite sticky. We tried it in a pan that isn’t non-stick and it stuck – badly! So switching to a non-stick pan made all the difference.
You still might need to add a bit more oil while you’re frying if it gets a little sticky, but a non-stick pan is really important in this recipe. - Storing. This is definitely best served fresh and hot and straight from the frying pan, but if you do have leftovers, they will keep for 3-4 days in the fridge.
New favorite savory delicious and nutritious. Leftovers are good in a wrap or on toast. It is thicker than a batter. The first time I added more liquid. This time I spread it on top of the vegetables and covered the pan to let it set… Worked a treat.
Happy to hear you enjoyed the recipe Cathy!
This looks amazing! Can I use gram flour for this, or is chickpea flour different? Thanks
Simple. Tasty. I made up an 8x size of the non-vegetable part of this and keep it in my fridge so I can cut up veggies in the morning, add this and cook up a tasty scramble.
Happy to hear you enjoyed the recipe Frank! Thanks so much for your great review!
Thanks for this recipe. Because I don’t have a nonstick pan, I wonder whether I could bake this in a very small Corningware ceramic dish. If you have time to suggest a cooking temp and time (in a toaster oven), I’d be grateful. Thanks for your website; best wishes.
I love this recipe!!! Of course it is not eggs, not supposed to be eggs but a substitute. Very flavorful for my breakfast and full of nutrients.
So glad to hear you enjoyed the recipe Dee! Thanks so much for your great review!
I thought this was great–I adjusted the spices to my liking. It does not, of course, taste like scrambled eggs. That is just fine with me– -if I wanted to eat eggs I wouldn’t be vegan. This is more like an egg-y pancake to me and works well as an omelette or sandwich filling. I used an iron skillet and it stuck a bit but not too badly. thanks for the recipe!
Thanks for sharing Elaine!
Tasted good. For me the texture turned out rather sticky, heavy and thick like refried beans. May have to do with the fact that I don’t use oil. Can’t get past all the concentrated calories and highly processed nature of oils. 🤷♂️
My husband loved this. I put it on a breakfast sandwich with beyond beef and he said it was amazing! Thank you for the recipe!
That’s awesome Molly! Thanks so much for your great review!
This recipe would make a great stuffing! But it’s not even close to resembling eggs. It came out very bready in texture, reminiscent of a stuffing or dressing.
This recipe requires much more amounts of all the spices especially the black salt. I find most vegan recipes never get the level of spice correct leaving the dishes a bland disappointment.
Spices tend to be more a personal preference from one person to the next. We found that the spices were perfect in this recipe. If you know that you like your food with a little extra spice, then you are more than welcome to add more. 🙂
i tried just the basic scramble recipe on its own (without any tomato/mushrooms) and added in some spinach at the end, and it was lovely! Sure, it wasn’t ‘scrambled eggs’, but I don’t think any homemade vegan substitute will ever be – and to be honest, I’m perfectly happy with this version!
So glad to hear you enjoy the recipe Anna! Thanks so much for your great review!
Allison, any chance you have a copycat version of Just Egg made with munk beans. I am trying to replicate but can’t seem to find a recipe that omits the floury texture. Any help is very much appreciated! Blessing, ~Channell
I tried this today and I don’t know what I did wrong but it was so mushy. May the tomatoes made it like that?? Not at all like scrambled eggs. I did like the flavor, it was different and I think I will make it maybe into a wrap or something like that. I will make it again because maybe I did something wrong. Thanks for the idea though!
2/7/25 This was delicious. Had it with sweet potato hash browns and avacado slices.The chickpea flower (which can by itself be such an off putting taste) especially with that dab of mustard was seasoned the best.way ever. Thank you.
Happy to hear you enjoyed the recipe Tabia!