Seitan, schmeitan – give me eggplant any day
March 17, 2011
Oh dear.
It’s been a bit of a bad time on the substitute front!
Went into Common Sense organics the other day in search of coarse ground semolina.
I got all excited at the chillers and bought seitan (made by Blue Lotus Foods in Australia). It says on the pack – use as you would any meat. Vegans, believe me, that is exactly what you should do. Treat it like meat and avoid at any cost.
I came home tonight to make my dinner and took the seitan from the fridge, mouth watering.
I opened the wrapper and ate a slice. Tough wet sea sponge texture exuding vegemite flavoured brown dishwater.
So, my dins tonight is the usual green veggies and an aubergine, sliced, dipped in seasoned chick pea flour and fried in olice oil. Yummy and a fraction of the price.
So my advice is, leave the premade seitan on the shelf.
April 15, 2011 at 8:47 am
Boy that sucks.
There is a shop here in Hamilton called Vegan Buffet, they sell wheat gluten and I make my own seitan with that.
4 cups of flour with enough water to make it doughy, then beat it until the water isn’t cloudly and its all mixed through. I cut this up into small pieces like about the size of my thumb nail.
Then simmer it for an hour in this:
12 cups of water
2 cups of soy
1 cup of Braggs
Pepper
Salt
If I want it tougher I simmer it in that broth for 1.5 hours.
The balls swell up in size. You can cook stuff using the broth or fry it up and damn does it rule.
April 15, 2011 at 9:38 pm
Thanks for that, Luke, I’m going to try that. I guess I was being a bit optimistic, being lazy and buying it premade!