Vegenaise and Vegan Aioli

I use a lot of vegenaise, and when I ran out of it again I decided to try and make my own. The secret ingredient is aquafaba, which is the liquid you get when you buy canned chickpeas. A magical substance! When we use chickpeas for a salad or to make hummus, I strain the peas so that I catch the fluid from the can. I use what I need to make a batch of vegenaise and freeze the rest in ice cube trays, always in 1 table spoon sized portions. This means once they are frozen, I keep aquafaba cubes in a container, ready to defrost when I need to make vegenaise whenever I want without having to open a can of chickpeas. If you use salted chickpeas, do not add salt in this recipe. Only add salt if your chickpeas where un-salted. To make vegan aioli, I simply add 1/2 teaspoon of freshly grated garlic to a 1/4 cup of vegenaise (more or less depending on how garlicky you like it) and a few drops of water, to make it a little bit more liquid. This recipe makes just over a 3/4 cup of vegenaise.

Make sure to use a tight fitting container, see tip below-

Equipment

a stick-blender
a wide mouthed clean pickle jar or any tight fitting container
a "slow pouring" olive oil pourer, which is needed so that you do not add the oil too quickly

Ingredients

3 TB (Table Spoons) aquafaba
1 TB fresh lemon juice
1/2 tea (tea spoon) dried mustard powder
1/2 tea sea salt, only if your aquafaba came from unsalted chickpeas, otherwise no salt is needed
3/4 cup light olive oil, I do not use virgin olive oil here

Procedure

add 3 TB aquafaba, 1 TB lemon juice and the 1/2 tea dried mustard powder to your glass jar
mix these ingredients with the stick blender until well combined
prepare a 3/4 cup of light olive oil by pouring it into a bottle with a slow pouring attachment, see photo above.
with the engine running, very slowly add the olive oil
all over sudden it will turn into vegenaise! SOO EASY
to make aioli out of this, take the amount of vegenaise you need and simply add some freshly grated garlic and a few drops of water and blend until well combined

This will not work!

Important Tip!

the vegenaise will not come together if you use a wide bowl, as per the second photo
it only works if you use a tight fitting container, for example the one my recent stick blender came with, the one on the right in the top photo
if you do not have such a long tight container, an old and cleaned pickle jar works too