Herbal substitutes for meat are in the Trend, in terms of taste but unfortunately often wrong. Star-chef Nelson Müller has nine Veggie chips tested – with surprising results.

Martin Kuhna

Vegetarian and vegan is in Vogue, even in the case of Convenience products: supermarkets (and not only those with “organic” in the label) to fill all the shelves. Some products, however, is still the name of a very carnal classics – perhaps because terms such as “biscuit”, even for the convinced vegetarian at best sound nutrition, but not to fun to eat. In addition to the sausage and the Burger there is especially the Schnitzel, which serves such a Veggie-mimicry as a model. Stuck under the breading substitutes: vegetables, soy, Tofu, wheat protein. More or less they approach, in fact, in the Form and taste a piece of meat.

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knows Our Tester, the star chef Nelson Müller, with vegetarian food, but food also has a weakness for house man. In his Essen’s second restaurant “Müllers” are Mac and cheese, meat loaf and sausage on the map – and, of course, Wiener Schnitzel. Such food has to do for Müller with a lot of the memories of his Childhood to this topic, he has devoted even a new cooking book: “home to love”. Just the chips, he says, for many people, almost like a family member – “was always there, will always be there”.

should be As a scavenger, as Müller actually has very clear ideas: “veal, nice and thin, soufflierte breading, Golden-fried.” This is not for vegetarians and Vegans, of course. That you can feel and sometimes still Craving for your old favorite, Nelson Müller. Therefore, the idea of nine vegetarian or vegan Convenience foods-chips from the super market shelves and a freezer he liked to test shipping.

The local date and he chews slowly through the freshly fried Veggie chips, the “Miller”-Team on the small plate in front of him. His conclusion: Some Veggie chips taste really good, some are very close to poultry meat. Since I have, he says, the food industry is deep in the aromatic box of tricks, to get it together.