Slow-Cooked Scarlet Seitan

August 30, 2015

I've hitting my seitan footstep this yr as well as it's high fourth dimension I blogged my preferred recipe. It comes from Steen as well as Noyes' Vegan Sandwiches Save The Day, alongside solely the well-nigh nestling adaptations from me. Originally called 'moo-free seitan', it's clearly aimed at replacing cherry sandwich meats as well as has tomato plant paste, tamari as well as smoked paprika worked into the dough. Besides these reddening agents, there's also garlic, onion, nooch as well as liquid fume to reinforce that savoury flavour.

I also similar that this recipe makes purpose of my oft-neglected irksome cooker. It's fiddling problem to rustle upward the requisite ingredients, submerge a yoke of dough loaves inward broth, as well as permit them to piece of cake simmer over the class of viii hours. Once done, that's i loaf for the fridge, i for the freezer, as well as a yoke litres of stock equally a bonus. 

I've establish that the seitan slices chocolate-brown as well as crisp upward nicely inward a frypan spell remaining juicy (and fifty-fifty pink!) inward the centre. They fare good equally simple chops, but also gibe upward to stir-frying as well as gravy-smothering.

Slow-cooked cherry seitan
(slightly adapted from Celine Steen & Tamasin Noyes'
Vegan Sandwiches Save The Day)

seitan dough
2 loving cup gluten flour
three tablespoons soy flour
1 tablespoon nutritional yeast flakes
2 teaspoons onion powder
1 teaspoon smoked paprika
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon dark pepper
1 teaspoon 'beef' stock powder
three tablespoons tomato plant paste
1/4 loving cup tamari
2 teaspoons liquid smoke
1 1/4 cups water

cooking broth
2 teaspoons 'beef' stock powder
1 tablespoon tomato plant paste
1 tablespoon tamari
4-8 cups water
four cloves garlic, sliced
dark pepper

In a medium sized bowl, stir together the gluten flour, soy flour, nooch, spices as well as stock powder.

Place the tomato plant glue inward a modest bowl. Whisk inward the tamari as well as liquid smoke, as well as thence 1 loving cup of the water. Pour all of this liquid into the bowl of dry out ingredients as well as stir them together alongside a wooden spoon to cast a dough. The aim is to brand a dense, theater dough - add together inward equally much of the extra 1/4 loving cup H2O yous require to convey all the dry out ingredients together. Knead the dough inward the bowl for a few minutes, scrunching your fingers correct inward to stretch the gluten strands. Divide the dough into 2 fiddling loaves as well as house them following inward a irksome cooker.

Prepare the cooking broth past times whisking together the stock powder, tomato plant glue as well as tamari, thence stirring inward 1 loving cup water. Pour this mixture over the seitan loaves inward the irksome cooker. Continue pouring inward to a greater extent than H2O until the seitan is only covered. Drop inward the garlic slices as well as add together a few grinds of pepper. 

Cook the seitan on depression for viii hours, using tongs to plow the loaves over at the four hr mark. Allow the seitan to cool a spell inward the broth earlier cooking alongside it or storing it. We refrigerate or freeze the seitan, as well as reserve the strained broth to purpose equally stock (often freezing it too).

Mango Basil Wraps

December 28, 2013

I know that non everyone is comfortable amongst fruit inward salads. It's 1 affair to sideslip unopen to dried fruit into the rice or couscous together with possibly non equally good far a stretch to pair a fig or quince amongst unopen to fancy cheese, but these practices tin progress to introducing apples, citrus fruits, grapes, strawberries together with fifty-fifty watermelon to the dinner table. Salad-wise, the syrupy sweetness mango is sure enough the in conclusion frontier. 

I convey crossed that frontier. I convey mixed mango amongst avocado, cucumber, herbs, sprouts together with kokosnoot inward a sub-tropical wind published inward Vegan Sandwiches Save The Day. And I'll do it in 1 lawsuit to a greater extent than together with again, for equally long equally I tin access mangos together with creamed coconut.

I picked upward this piddling box of creamed kokosnoot in conclusion twelvemonth for a duo of dollars at an Indian grocery, amongst piddling sentiment of what to do amongst it. It's a thick, obese glue that I assemble is mostly used to brand curries, soups together with South-east Asian desserts creamier; Steen together with Noyes repurpose it for condiments together with vegan cheese inward their sandwich book. In this wind they laid the savoury musical note yesteryear adding onion, garlic, chilli together with ginger to their creamy kokosnoot spread.

There's lot of the spread left afterwards all the wrapping's done. It sets to a firm, crumbly consistency inward the refrigerator but softens downwardly to something spreadable when it makes contact amongst a warm tortilla or spell of toast. I'll hold upward taking unopen to other tip from the already-evidently-brilliant Steen together with Noyes, together with endeavour melting unopen to to a greater extent than of it over steamed rice.

Mango basil wraps
(very slightly adapted from Celine Steen & Tamasin Noyes'
Vegan Sandwiches Save The Day)

coconut spread
200g creamed coconut
1 loving cup warm water
juice of 1 lemon
two teaspoons onion powder
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon chilli flakes
1 teaspoon soil ginger
1/2 teaspoon dark pepper

wraps
half dozen flour tortillas
1 cucumber, sliced into sparse circles
1 large mango, sliced into cubes
two avocados, sliced into cubes
24 fresh basil leaves
four tablespoons finely chopped coriander leaves
60g sprouts of your pick

To brand the spread, blend all the ingredients together inward a blender or nutrient processor until smooth. Refrigerate the spread for at to the lowest degree two hours, until firm.

Heat upward the tortillas inward a frypan until they're warm together with pliable. Spread two tablespoons of the kokosnoot spread over the centre of each tortilla, together with thence stack upward the cucumber, mango, avocado, basil, coriander together with sprouts. Wrap upward the tortillas tightly together with swallow them immediately.