July 23, 2011: Seitan Roast

nut roast or the tofurkey but ultimately wanted to expand my repertoire past times trying a seitan roast. This 1 comes from tofurkey, together with I'm nevertheless hung upward on the hope of Léna's approach - soaking edible bean curd peel inwards basting liquid together with wrapping it circular the roast similar a skin. Of class whatsoever break of stuffing combinations could live on substituted, together with there's all sorts of seitan experiments, roasted together with otherwise, to live on done. If you've got whatsoever tips delight portion them!

Seitan roast
(very slightly adapted from the baked seitan scroll amongst sage, engagement together with walnut stuffing
at Veggie Num Num)

stuffing1 tablespoon olive oil
four shallot bulbs, finely diced
1 loving cup sourdough, roughly chopped into staff of life crumbs
ii tablespoons fresh parsley, roughly chopped
1 teaspoon fresh rosemary, finely chopped
1/2 loving cup fresh dates, pitted together with roughly chopped
1/4 loving cup walnuts, roughly chopped
ii tablespoons apple tree juice

seitan
450g gluten flour
50g evidently flour
1 teaspoon dried thyme
1 teaspoon dried sage
1 teaspoon dried parsley
1/2 loving cup vegetable oil
ii 1/2 cups vegetable stock

extra olive fossil oil together with apple tree juice to glaze

Start amongst the stuffing. Heat the fossil oil inwards a frypan together with add together the shallots, cooking them until softened together with translucent. Transfer the shallots to a bowl together with add together the remaining ingredients, stirring to combine. Set the stuffing aside spell y'all operate on the seitan.

Preheat the oven to 160°C.

In a large bowl, stir together the flours together with dried herbs. Whisk inwards the fossil oil together with stock, stirring it all together to shape a dough. Once the moisture together with dry out ingredients are by together with large incorporated, instruct your hands inwards at that topographic point to complete the job. It may or may non live on useful to knead the dough a flake at this stage.

Spread out a canvas of foil together with plonk the dough onto it. Flatten the dough out every bit best y'all can, aiming for a large rectangle of fifty-fifty thickness. Spoon the stuffing along the centre of the rectangle, parallel amongst the longest edge. Roll the seitan unopen to the filling into a log shape, using the foil to direct the dough. Fold the foil firmly together with tightly unopen to the roll, closing off the ends. Wrap the seitan scroll in 1 trial to a greater extent than amongst some other layer of foil together with transfer it to a baking tray.

Bake the scroll for 80-90 minutes, until it is trouble solid to touch. Unwrap the scroll (try non to burn downward yourself - purpose an oven mitt!) together with house it dorsum on the baking tray. Drizzle over some extra olive fossil oil together with apple tree juice together with furnish the roast to the oven for a few minutes. When it's a footling golden recall the roast, residue it a infinitesimal thence piece together with serve.