On the first few months of my Vegan journey , my husband brought me to different Vegan and Vegetarian Restaurants in Vienna, Austria. And I was quite amazed by their creations, their recipes of Vegan and Vegetarian foods. Since then, it encouraged me to do something like similar in my own version . It brought me to think about what I can do with something like meat substitute. And that I discovered Seitan.
Seitan is mainly Gluten. It is abundant in protein. Many Vegan use Seitan as their meat substitute. It doesn’t have that real taste of meat though. But it is as good as meat. I started to love it, and most of the time I put Seitan in every dishes I am cooking everyday.
How to make Seitan
Ingredients :
- 1 cup Gluten flour ( or Seitan flour )
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- ground black pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon nutritional yeast
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 onion powder
- 1 tbspoon soy sauce
- 3/4 cup of warm water
- 1 tbspoon of olive oil ( or vegetable oil )
Put altogether the gluten flour, pepper, nutritional yeast, salt, garlic powder, onion powder in a bowl and mix until you feel that the mixtures are being mixed well. Make a whole in the mixture and pour the warm water and oil in that whole. Mix them well. Cover and let it in the bowl for 15-20minutes.
Now for the boiling of the Seitan , put 1/2 Liter of vegetable stock in a pot. Add another 1 tbspoon salt, 1 clove garlic and corn pepper. Cover the pot, put it in the stove, and bring it to boil. When it starts boiling , get the Seitan dough and make 3-4 round forms. One can make any forms from the Seitan dough. Form perfection is not so important here , so dont worry if you do it right or wrong. Throw them all in the boiling vegetable stock, and let it boil in a medium heat for 30 minutes.
And now ready to take them all out from the boiling water. Put all in a bowl and let it cool . One can eat them just like after boiling it or fry them. Frying is best in Seitan. I always fry them first and then mix it to my recipe of the day. My son loves it fry too. In the pictures I posted here looks like I made 6 or more balls of Seitan. Yes, I made more of them because I always refrigerate the rest and that I can use them in the next days. One can make more of course, just double the measurement of the ingredients.
I hope you enjoy making the Seitan recipe, and best of luck for the delicious result of your Seitan 🙂 …