Good Gravy Bowl with Broccoli & Seitan

Name: Good Gravy Bowl with Broccoli & Seitan
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 946 milliliters broccoli florets; 355 milliliters cooked brown lentils; 946 milliliters cooked quinoa; 2 Tbsps organic cornstarch; 1 teaspoons dried sage; 3 Tbsps chopped fresh thyme; 3 cloves garlic, chopped; 2 Tbsps mellow white miso; 2 teaspoons olive oil; 1 pinche Several of freshly ground black pepper; 1 pinch Pinch of salt; 473 milliliters thinly sliced seitan, in bite-size pieces; 355 milliliters vegetable broth; 1 medium yellow onion, diced

Good Gravy Bowl with Broccoli & Seitan might be a good recipe to expand your main course recipe box. This recipe makes 4 servings with 484 calories, 34g of protein, and 8g of fat each. This recipe covers 36% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 30 minutes. If you have olive oil, mellow miso, cornstarch, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the salt you could follow this main course with the Apple Turnovers Recipe as a dessert. It is a good option if you're following a vegan diet.

Instructions

Prepare the gravy: Preheat a 2-quart saucepan over medium heat and add the oil. Sauté the onion and garlic in the oil with a pinch of salt for 5 to 7 minutes, until lightly browned.

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Garlic

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Onion

Salt

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Sauce Pan

In the meantime, mix the cornstarch with 1/2 cup of the vegetable broth, stirring with a fork to dissolve, and set aside.

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Vegetable Broth

Corn Starch

When the onions have browned, add the thyme, sage, and pepper and sauté for 30 seconds or so.

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Onion

Pepper

Thyme

Sage

Add the lentils, miso, and the remaining 1 cup broth (not the broth mixed with the cornstarch just yet) and heat through. Once warm, use an immersion blender to purée until relatively smooth. If you don't have an immersion blender, transfer to a blender or food processor to purée, and then transfer back to the pot.

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Corn Starch

Lentils

Broth

Miso

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Stream in the broth-cornstarch mixture, stirring constantly, and heat for another 7 minutes, until thick and silky. Taste for seasoning and keep warm until ready to serve.

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Corn Starch

Seasoning

Broth

Prepare the seitan: Preheat a large, heavy pan over medium-high heat (as usual, cast iron is preferred) and add the oil. Sauté the seitan in the oil, along with a few pinches of black pepper, until seared on both sides, 5 to 7 minutes. Set aside until ready to serve.

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Black Pepper

Seitan

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Steam the broccoli: Get your steaming apparatus ready.

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Broccoli

Place the broccoli in the steamer and sprinkle on a pinch of salt. Steam for 5 to 7 minutes, until brilliantly bright green.

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Broccoli

Salt

Place the quinoa in bowls, then add the broccoli and seitan. Smother in gravy, and serve!

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Broccoli

Quinoa

Seitan

Gravy

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Serve over mashed sweet potatoes instead of quinoa.

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Sweet Potato

Quinoa

Reprinted with permission from Isa Does It: Amazingly Easy, Wildly Delicious Vegan Recipes for Every Day of the Week by Isa Chandra Moskowitz. Copyright © 2013 by Isa Moskowitz; photographs © 2013 by Vanessa Rees. Published by Little, Brown and Company.