Saintly Seitan

Today I moved up to vegan belt green! I made my own home made seitan. Seitan is essentially a meat substitute made from wheat gluten. Gluten is the protein component of the wheat, and this is why it's a handy meat substitute. I think it was invented by the Chinese.

So your basic seitan ingredients are:
-wheat gluten flour
-vegie stock
-soy sauce
-nutritional yeast
-garlic
-water

That's about it ingredients wise. You make a kind of dough with the gluten flour, and then it's cut into pieces and boiled for an hour in stock.

So once I'd done that, I cut some small pieces, coated them in breadcrumbs and shallow fried them. They were soooo good! Almost like 'fake' chicken nuggets really. So the recipe I used was from the fabulous vegan cook book 'Veganomicon'

So even if you aren't a vegetarian or a vegan I can highly recommend it as a very cheap replacement for meat. You need about an hour and a half to make it, but it makes a lot, which keeps well in the broth. Oh and you can buy wheat gluten flour from Kakullas sisters, you can probably buy it at Coles too I would say.