Y’all. I made seitan from scratch. It’s a yummy vegan protein that’s absolutely scrumptious. 😋🤤
Seitan is made from wheat gluten. Basically the protein-rich portion of the wheat berry. The finished texture is meat roast like, from what I understand (I’m a lifelong vegetarian so I don’t know).
Anyway, it looks like brain but taste like bliss. And when you say “I love seitan” it freaks people out. 😂
Letting it rest before tearing/cutting to pieces and steaming. Then will fry it up for lunch tomorrow.
I used mostly plain wheat gluten powder, added a little wholewheat flour, a bit of baking powder, and water with vegetable bouillon powder and soy sauce in it.
Interestingly I had little power to control how wet the dough was, it went SLURP and took up the liquid it needed to do the thing, and then that's it apparently, couldn't add more to loosen it up.
I've just twisted what's left of the dough from the other day up again, and now I'm going to steam it alone for like half an hour or so. Then we'll cut/tear and fry as needed.
Experimenting is fun :)
I shall have to document this all properly once I settle on a preferred method.
Anyone got tips for making home made #seitan (fake meat from wheat gluten) super tasty?
I guess the water you mix with the wheat gluten powder can be flavoured - with vegetable stock or whatnot.
We're omnivores just trying to eat less meat rather than #vegan or #vegetarian (so far, anyway). I guess adding chicken stock back into seitan would be sort of missing the point...