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Marzipan, Legupan, Lupipan<\/h1>\n\n

You like to read our blog and want to cook experimentally? Missing recipes or don’t want to get your own fermentation chamber to grow koji<\/a> right away? That’s why we now have regular MILK.<\/strong> Recipes<\/em> from our Food Lab in Munich, or more precisely from Stefanie Wiehler-Streise. Steffi completes the team with Can, Jens and Felix. She conceives recipes that are experimental and playful, yet easy to recreate, in the spirit of the Food Lab.<\/p>\n\n

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Blocklupipan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

I took inspiration from the Food Lab’s previous experiments and looked into substitute products. For example, the Food Lab has made vegetable charcuterie<\/a> or vegetable jerky <\/a>. But substitutes are not just for meat. Whether it’s muck instead of coffee or margarine instead of butter. In the GDR, for example, Legupan was invented to replace marzipan<\/a>. For this purpose, expensive almonds, which had to be imported, were replaced by domestic legumes such as peas. The substitute product was convincing in terms of taste, appearance and texture.<\/p>\n\n

Today we can import products from all over the world, everything seems to be available but in terms of sustainability animal products are problematic. Vegetables such as avocados and almonds, which consume more water and have to be imported, do not have the best environmental balance either.<\/p>\n\n

So here’s my version of marzipan that can be made at home from mostly local ingredients. LUPIPAN.<\/p>\n\n

Recipe for Lupipan Cookies<\/h2>\n\n

My marzipan substitute is based on lupins, which I use for a filled cookie. This is how the future tastes – or the past. Or the GDR? Anyway, it tastes very good. Have fun experimenting!<\/p>\n\n

Recipe Lupipan (marzipan from lupins)<\/h3>\n\n

Ingredients:<\/p>\n\n