Query for cooking-type people

[juliet]

Vegan cooking query!

I would like to be able to make a vegan equivalent of cheesy flapjacks (where by 'equivalent' what I really mean is any kind of savoury flapjack; I'm not that picky). The basic problem here is that in cheese flapjacks the oats are held together by the cheese (and by egg if you use that, although it works OK without). What can I use to substitute for this that's vegan?

Tried so far:
- just using vegan marg, nutritional yeast, and some mustard mixed into the oats. Tasted great, but did not hold together AT ALL and had to be eaten with a spoon.
- as above but with some soya milk to hold the oats together. Tasted OK but consistency all wrong; what I like about flapjacks is their crunchy nature. This was more like solid porridge.

I've seen flour suggested, but fear that that will also bugger up the texture (making it too cakey/bready). Any other ideas?

Comments

[laughingrat]

Have you tried using chickpea flour at all? In India (and, apparently, France?) that's often used to make delicious savory things one fries. It might not provide the right consistency for a flapjack, though, since the flatness of those makes the weight be an issue as you flip them...

[juliet]

I normally bake my flapjacks -- but in fact gram flour (which wikipedia tells me is the same thing as chickpea flour) did work quite well in yesterday's experiment! I will try again with slightly different quantities to see what happens.