Best Homemade Seitan

Name: Best Homemade Seitan
Prep time: 2 h 15 min
Cook time: 2 h 15 min
Total time: 2 h 15 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 4 servings Simmering Broth; 2 cloves garlic, minced; 1 teaspoon grated lemon zest; 59 milliliters nutritional yeast; 1 teaspoon salt-free seasoning blend; 118 milliliters soy sauce; 1 Tbsp tomato paste; 1 teaspoon vegetable oil; 237 milliliters ice cold vegetable stock; 355 milliliters vital wheat gluten flour; 2 liters ice cold water

Best Homemade Seitan might be a good recipe to expand your main course collection. Watching your figure? This dairy free recipe has 227 calories, 39g of protein, and 2g of fat per serving. This recipe covers 10% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 4. If you have vegetable stock, water, nutritional yeast, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the vegetable oil you could follow this main course with the Blueberry Coffee Cake #SundaySupper as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 2 hours and 15 minutes.

Instructions

Combine the vital wheat gluten flour and nutritional yeast flakes in a bowl; set aside. In a separate bowl, mix the vegetable stock, 1/2 cup of soy sauce, tomato paste, garlic, lemon zest, and seasoning blend.

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Nutritional Yeast Flakes

Vital Wheat Gluten

Seasoning Mix

Vegetable Stock

Tomato Paste

Lemon Zest

Soy Sauce

Garlic

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Bowl

Pour the wet ingredients into the flour mixture and stir with a firm spatula. Knead the dough until a spongy, elastic dough forms, about 3 minutes.

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Dough

All Purpose Flour

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Spatula

Roll the dough into a log shape and cut it into 3 equal pieces.

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Dough

Roll

Combine 1/2 cup of soy sauce and cold water in a large pot. The simmering broth should be very cold when you add the dough to help it keep a firm texture and ensure that it doesn't break apart.

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Soy Sauce

Broth

Dough

Water

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Pot

Place the dough pieces in the cold broth, partially cover the pot, and bring it to a boil over high heat. Reduce the heat to low, partially cover the pot, and simmer for 1 hour, turning the dough pieces occasionally.

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Broth

Dough

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Pot

Remove the pot from the heat and let the gluten cool in the broth for at least 30 minutes. To store the gluten, refrigerate, covered in the broth, in a sealed container for up to 5 days.

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Broth

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Pot

If your recipe calls for seitan, cut the gluten into pieces.

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Seitan