Seitan (vegan)

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 1/2 cups vital wheat gluten
• 1/4 cup nutritional yeast flakes
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/2 teaspoon poultry seasoning
• 1/8 teaspoon thyme
• 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
• 1 cup vegetable stock, plus
• 10 cups vegetable stock
• water
• 2 -3 tablespoons soy sauce, plus
• 1/2 cup soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon oil
• 1/2 onion, chopped
• 4 -6 mushrooms, chopped
• 2 carrots, chopped
• 3 green onions
• 1 garlic clove, minced
• 1/2 bell pepper, chopped

Recipe

• 1 put the wheat gluten, nutritional yeast, and spices into a bowl and stir them together.
• 2 add the broth, soy sauce and oil to the dry ingredients.
• 3 mix until you have a firm and spongy sort of dough. you might have to add a few tablespoons of water to get all the wheat gluten mixed into dough.
• 4 knead the dough for a minute, then cut into a few big chunks and set aside.
• 5 now, take 10 cups of vegetable stock (or water) and half a cup of soy sauce and place into a large pot.
• 6 add some chopped onions, mushrooms, carrots, carrot tops, green onions, chopped garlic, bell pepper (this is all for seasoning the seitan) and the gluten dough.
• 7 bring this to a boil, then partially cover and cook it at a very low temperature for about an hour.
• 8 let the seitan pieces cool in the pot before using or refrigerating.
• 9 store the seitan in broth or water and use within a week.