{"id":829,"date":"2022-01-02T17:12:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T17:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/?p=829"},"modified":"2022-01-02T17:14:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T17:14:10","slug":"seitan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/2022\/01\/02\/seitan\/","title":{"rendered":"Seitan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For NYE dinner, I planned a vegan menu for a couple of friends. I found this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mZG0dJCv48k\">video<\/a> about vegan chicken based on wheat gluten or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seitan\">seitan<\/a>. I didnt know that product but checking online it was esay to find. I liked the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avantgardevegan.com\/recipes\/vegan-chicken-dinner\/\">recipe<\/a>  because it was quite complete with the mushroom sauce and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M9hSsFv1R0o\">creamy potatoes<\/a>. All the efforts go to the author in the videos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vegan Sausage Ingredients:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>1 cup of soy milk<\/li><li>1\/2 cup of mixed dry mushrooms<\/li><li>2 tsp dried onion<\/li><li>2 gloves of garlic minced<\/li><li>1\/2 cup vegetable stock<\/li><li>150g firm tofu<\/li><li>3 tbsp white miso paste<\/li><li>2 tbsp maple syrup (+ 2tbsp for frying)<\/li><li>1 tsp cayenne pepper<\/li><li>2 tbsp tahini<\/li><li>2 tsp dried sage (*I am not keen of dry thyme)<\/li><li>300g wheat gluten \/ seitan.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Vegan Sausage Process:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In a blender mix all ingredients but the seitan.<\/li><li>Then add the liquid mix to the seitan.<\/li><li>Knead for 15 minutes. I was surprised how spongy was the dough! It wasnt very sticky so it was ok to deal with.<\/li><li>Make a roll from the dough, like a big sausage, then cut in three pieces, or more depending how big is your pans.<\/li><li>Wrap each piece with oven-proof baking paper, like a sweet. Then wrap it again with foil.<\/li><li>Depending on your pan, put two or three pieces, cover well with water the sausages, heat up the water and let it simmer for 90 minutes.<\/li><li>Let is cool down. Remove the foil. At this point, you can keep them in the fridge. For using a different day or carry on.<\/li><li>In a hot saucepan,  put 2 tbsp of maple syrup and fried a couple of sausages until  the surface is caramelized. <\/li><li>Then put in a pre-heat oven at 220C for 10-15 minutes.<\/li><li>Remove from oven, let it cool down a bit and ready to eat!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Mushroom Sauce Ingredients<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>250g sliced chesnut mushtooms<\/li><li>2 red onion<\/li><li>Splash of red wine<\/li><li>Salt + pepper<\/li><li>120ml soy cream<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Mushroom Sauce process:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In a hot saucepan, add a bit of olive oil, mushrooms and onion. Add salt and pepper. <\/li><li>Once the mushrooms start taking a golden color, add the alcohol. Wait a little bit until it vaporizes.<\/li><li>Add the soy cream. Mix clean for a couple of minutes.<\/li><li>Remove from the heat and serve with the sausages.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Creamy Potatoes Ingredients:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>1 can of coconut milk<\/li><li>1 cup of soy milk (use the coconut can)<\/li><li>2 red onions chopped<\/li><li>5 cloves of garlic, minced<\/li><li>1 tsp oregano<\/li><li>2 tsp mustard<\/li><li>2 tsp say sauce (or nutritional yeast)<\/li><li>salt + pepper<\/li><li>5 potatoes<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Creamy Potatoes process:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Put all ingredients apart from the potatoes in a pan, heat up at medium heat. Let it simmer.<\/li><li>Pre-heat oven at 180C<\/li><li>Slice the potatoes as much thin as possible.<\/li><li>Add the potatoes to the sauce. The sauce should cover all potatoes.<\/li><li>Let it cook them for 5 minutes or more so the sauce starts to thick a bit.<\/li><li>Pour the potatoes mix in a ovenproof dish. Cover with a bit of baking paper. Put in the oven for 20-25 minutes. Then remove the paper and let the top to caramelize (I had to change the oven setting to grill).<\/li><li>Remove from oven and sever with your mushroom sauce and sausage!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"602\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screenshot-from-2022-01-02-17-09-39-1024x602.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screenshot-from-2022-01-02-17-09-39-1024x602.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screenshot-from-2022-01-02-17-09-39-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screenshot-from-2022-01-02-17-09-39-768x452.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screenshot-from-2022-01-02-17-09-39.png 1037w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the picture doesnt look great, I have to say the sausage was tasty (it didnt taste like chicken) and the potatoes very creamy. I didnt like much the mushroom sauce because the thyme (so I have removed it from the ingredients \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For NYE dinner, I planned a vegan menu for a couple of friends. I found this video about vegan chicken based on wheat gluten or seitan. I didnt know that product but checking online it was esay to find. I liked the recipe because it was quite complete with the mushroom sauce and creamy potatoes. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/2022\/01\/02\/seitan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Seitan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":833,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}