Smothered Seitan Chops

March 1, 2015

Once dorsum dwelling family from Sydney I was eager to select some fun inwards the kitchen. I pulled out Vegan Soul Kitchen together with committed to some serious cooking, preparing my ain seitan inwards the tiresome cooker throughout the afternoon, thence trying ii novel Soul Kitchen  recipes for dinner.

I was a piffling surprised that Bryant Terry didn't include a seitan recipe inwards his book, but at that topographic point are enough of others around. I had a become at the moo-free seitan inwards Vegan Sandwiches Save The Day together with it proved really successful. Once the seitan slices were dredged inwards arrowroot together with shallow-fried past times Terry's method I got pretty excited. "I intend I've made chops!" I told Michael. We tested a small-scale piece; it was really juicy within together with crisp on the outer.

The other handy matter nearly making my ain seitan was all the gluteny stock I ended upwards with. Much of it was used for the mushroom gravy that these 'chops' were simmered in. Terry has an elaborate recipe for making mushroom gravy from scratch, but I consider whatever vegetable stock would move A-OK.

Smothered inwards mushroom gravy together with some wilted cabbage, I'd wager that this seitan was every bit hearty every bit whatever slab of meat. On the side nosotros ate steamed rice together with sweetness coconut-ginger creamed corn, some other bully vegan variation on a homely dish dreamed upwards past times Bryant Terry.

Smothered seitan chops
(adapted really slightly from Bryant Terry's Vegan Soul Kitchen)

mushroom gravy
2 tablespoons olive oil
250g mushrooms, sliced
2 tablespoons wholemeal flour
1 loving cup soy milk
1 loving cup stock
tabular array salt together with white pepper

1/2 loving cup olive oil
five tablespoons arrowroot/tapioca flour
500g seitan, sliced into 1cm thick medallions
1 large onion, chopped coarsely
five cloves garlic, minced
2 cups stock
1 loving cup cabbage, finely chopped
2 jalapenos, minced (I used pickled ones)
2 tablespoons parsley, minced

Prepare the mushroom gravy inwards a medium-sized saucepan. Set that saucepan over medium oestrus together with warm upwards 1 tablespoon of the olive oil. Drop inwards the mushrooms together with saute them for five minutes. Add the other tablespoon of olive crude oil together with the flour together with stir them through the mushrooms; laid upwards them, stirring regularly for nearly 10 minutes. Gradually stir inwards the milk together with the stock, thence tabular array salt together with pepper to your preference. Simmer the gravy for unopen to xv minutes, continuing to stir it often. Take the gravy off the oestrus together with laid it aside.

Pour a substantial layer of crude oil inwards a large frypan together with laid it over medium-high heat. Place the arrowroot inwards a shallow bowl. Dredge each spell of seitan inwards the arrowroot to lightly coat both sides together with drib it into the frypan, frying it until golden on both sides. Repeat amongst the balance of the seitan. When they're finished frying, drain the seitan chops on absorbent paper; when all the chops are done, plough off the oestrus together with build clean out the pan.

Set the frypan dorsum on medium-high oestrus together with pour inwards 1-2 tablespoons of olive crude oil to lightly coat the base. Add the onion together with kid it for 3-4 minutes, thence trim back the oestrus together with snuff it on sauteing until the onion is thoroughly softened together with starting to brown, some other 10 minutes. Stir through the garlic together with saute for a farther 2-3 minutes. Pour over the mushroom gravy together with the stock together with convey it all to the boil. Add the seitan chops dorsum inwards together with trim back the heat, comprehend the frypan together with simmer it all for thirty minutes (plenty of fourth dimension to laid upwards some corn together with rice!).

When the simmering is done, add together the cabbage together with the jalapenos to the pan, gently crease them into the sauce, together with snuff it on simmering everything for 2-3 minutes. Sprinkle over the parsley together with serve.

Johnny Blaze Cakes

February 7, 2016

We came dwelling family from our Ottolenghi-fest alongside a jounce amount of pickled watermelon rind together with Cindy wasted no fourth dimension inwards coming upwards alongside a excogitation to role some. She figured that our pumpkin together with kale stuffed version I occasionally bust out for potlucks). They're relatively dry, alongside a prissy warm flavor cheers to the cayenne together with jalapenos. You produce postulate a practiced accompaniment, together with the tangy watermelon pickles were ideal. We too whipped upwards a batch of the chilled citrus broccoli salad from the same mass for a uncomplicated purchase rattling effective dinner combo.

Johnny Blaze cakes
(adapted rattling slightly from Bryant Terry's Vegan Soul Kitchen)

1.5 cups polenta

1/2 loving cup wholemeal self-raising flour

one teaspoon salt

1/4-1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper

2.5 cups soy milk

ii jalapenos, seeded together with sliced finely

stone oil for frying

Combine the polenta, flour, tabular array salt together with cayenne inwards a large bowl.

Bring the soy milk to the boil inwards a saucepan together with the slow pour it into the polenta mix, stirring every bit yous go. Stir inwards the jalapeno together with refrigerate the batter for almost one-half an hour.

Preheat the oven to 120°C (this is merely to transcend on the early on batches of the corn cakes warm land yous nestling the rest).

Add a tablespoon of stone oil to a large frying pan together with house on medium-high heat. Shape niggling discs out of almost 1/4 loving cup of the batter mix together with add together them to the pan. Once the bottom has laid nicely (about a minute) yous tin cast them into cakes - yous desire them almost 1cm thick. Lower the oestrus together with hence develop for 5-8 minutes on each side until they're golden brown.

I was going four cakes to a batch together with got through the whole mixture inwards iii batches - transfer the cooked cakes to an oven tray together with popular them inwards the depression oven land you're frying the rest.

Vegan Somebody Inwards A Bowl

August 10, 2014

Australia's sense of mortal nutrient has been pretty shallow, on the whole. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few years agone nosotros mightiness accept been able to nominate fried chicken or collard greens every bit mortal nutrient staples, in addition to forthwith there's no halt of Melbourne bars in addition to restaurants serving upward cornbread, mac'n'cheese, hush puppies in addition to pork fatty everything. But you'd last hard-pressed to larn much of this cuisine's roots, deeply entwined alongside African-American history. There's a context of slavery, African in addition to Native American ingredients, habitation gardening, game meats in addition to offal, in addition to a spirit of sharing in addition to making the best of what's on hand.

I was struck past times this sense of generosity in addition to household unit of measurement connectedness when nosotros visited mortal nutrient eatery Seasoned Vegan inwards New York dorsum inwards June. Like the Seasoned Vegan team, Here's a peachy article where he fondly recalls the home-grown create in addition to seasonal cooking traditions inwards his grandparents' neighbourhood.) I of late acquired a second-hand re-create of his mass Vegan Soul Kitchen in addition to it's been fascinating to flip through around actually unfamiliar recipes, drawing together spices in addition to create inwards ways that I haven't tried before.

We tried out 3 of these recipes for dinner on a Dominicus night. This wasn't quite the ordeal it sounds - the grooming methods aren't besides fussy, in addition to nosotros scheduled the oven in addition to stove times well. The principal poly peptide was tofu, drizzled alongside a picayune oil, paprika in addition to fresh rosemary earlier baking. I was impressed alongside the golden crust it developed but the spices simply didn't carry; I'll accept to campaign tinkering alongside the quantities here.

We had amend success alongside the sweetness tater puree - fluffy notwithstanding filling in addition to very, rattling sweet. It played good alongside the chewier in addition to to a greater extent than acidic lemon tahini-dressed chard in addition to spinach. I take in we'll last making these 2 recipes ane time again - every bit a sweet-and-sour team, mixing in addition to matching alongside other Vegan Soul Kitchen dishes, in addition to peradventure fifty-fifty integrating them into our other cooking habits.

The sweetest tater puree
(from Bryant Terry's Vegan Soul Kitchen)

1.8kg sweetness potatoes, peeled in addition to cutting into large chunks
four tablespoons agave nectar (or less)
half-dozen tablespoons kokosnoot oil, melted
1/2 teaspoon salt
165mL tin sack kokosnoot milk

Preheat an oven to 200°C.

Place the sweetness tater chunks inwards a rattling large bowl. Toss through the agave nectar, kokosnoot crude oil in addition to salt. Spread the tater chunks out over a large high-walled baking dish in addition to roast them for 30-40 minutes, giving them a stir at 10 infinitesimal intervals. Let the potatoes residuum for 10 minutes or so. Puree the sweetness potatoes in addition to kokosnoot milk inwards a nutrient processor until smooth, working inwards batches if necessary.

Lemon tahini-dressed greens

(slightly adapted from Bryant Terry's Vegan Soul Kitchen) 

large bunch of chard, sliced into bite-sized pieces alongside stems in addition to leaves separated

large bunch of spinach, leaves sliced into bite-sized pieces alongside stems discarded

dressing

1/2 loving cup tahini

1/4 loving cup water

1/4 loving cup lemon juice

2 teaspoons balsamic vinegar

1 teaspoon garlic powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

Whisk all the dressing ingredients together, past times paw or inwards a nutrient processor.

Set a large frypan over medium heat. Cook the chard stems for a pair of minutes, hence add together the chard leaves, in addition to later on a few farther minutes the spinach leaves. Stir them often, cooking until everything is simply wilted. Transfer the greens to a bowl (if there's H2O inwards the frypan, agree it dorsum from the bowl). Pour inwards the dressing in addition to toss it through the greens.