{"id":918,"date":"2010-08-31T19:35:42","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T01:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steamtrainsandghosts.wordpress.com\/?p=918"},"modified":"2010-08-31T19:35:42","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T01:35:42","slug":"the-seitan-recipe-o-greatness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steamtrainsandghosts.com\/?p=918","title":{"rendered":"The Seitan Recipe o Greatness"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p><\/p>Not original by me.\u00a0 I picked this recipe up from a <a href=\"http:\/\/yeahthatveganshit.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/infamous-seitan-recipe-o-greatness.html\">vegan blog<\/a>, where it was already second-hand.\u00a0 It seems that this recipe has been blazing through circles of seitan enthusiasts online.\u00a0 I\u2019m not vegan, but I love seitan.\u00a0 The stuff is a little bit like tofu\u00a0 \u2013 gluten, the proteinaceous part of wheat, molded and formed into chewy deliciousness.\u00a0 It\u2019s also hideously expensive.\n<p>Vital wheat gluten is not so cheap either ($2.50 for the 1 and a half cup it took to make this recipe), but it was still worth trying.\u00a0 So, without further ado,<\/p>\n<p>THE SEITAN RECIPE O GREATNESS<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1.5 c. vital wheat gluten<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 c. nutritional yeast (Not sure what nutritional yeast is, actually.\u00a0 I used 1\/8 c. of baker\u2019s yeast instead.)<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp. salt<\/li>\n<li>2 tsp. paprika<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 tsp. cinnamon<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 tsp. cumin<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 tsp. pepper<\/li>\n<li>1\/8 tsp. cayenne pepper<\/li>\n<li>1\/8 tsp. allspice<\/li>\n<li>3\/4 c. cold water<\/li>\n<li>4 tbsp. tomato paste<\/li>\n<li>1 tbsp. ketchup<\/li>\n<li>2 tbsp. olive oil<\/li>\n<li>2 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce or soy sauce<\/li>\n<li>1-3 cloves garlic, crushed (Naturally, I opted to use 3.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Assembly could not be simpler.\u00a0 Preheat oven to 325\u00ba.\u00a0 Mix together all the dry ingredients in one bowl and all the wet ingredients in another.\u00a0 Then add the wet ingredients to the dry, stir it, then knead the heck out of the dough.\u00a0 Form it into a log, wrap it in foil, then bake it for 90 minutes.\u00a0 Let it cool down completely before you do anything with it.<\/p>\n<p>Chewy, salty, savory, and great.\u00a0 My seitan popped its foil wrapper, though, so it ended up looking like a turd in the oven.\u00a0 Wrap it up in extra foil?\u00a0 Or is it because I used baker\u2019s yeast?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_920\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/steamtrainsandghosts.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/img_00191.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-920\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-920\" title=\"IMG_0019\" src=\"http:\/\/steamtrainsandghosts.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/img_00191.jpg?w=225\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-920\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wheat gluten, the hard-to-find main ingredient.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_921\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/steamtrainsandghosts.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/img_0021.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-921\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-921\" title=\"IMG_0021\" src=\"http:\/\/steamtrainsandghosts.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/img_0021.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-921\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">O Greatness?<\/p><\/div>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_922\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/steamtrainsandghosts.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/img_0024.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-922\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-922\" title=\"IMG_0024\" src=\"http:\/\/steamtrainsandghosts.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/img_0024.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-922\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The final product.  Check out that texture!<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not original by me.\u00a0 I picked this recipe up from a vegan blog, where it was already second-hand.\u00a0 It seems that this recipe has been blazing through circles of seitan enthusiasts online.\u00a0 I\u2019m not vegan, but I love seitan.\u00a0 The stuff is a little bit like tofu\u00a0 \u2013 gluten, the proteinaceous part of wheat, molded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[696,744,904],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes","tag-recipe","tag-seitan","tag-vegetarian-recipe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steamtrainsandghosts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steamtrainsandghosts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steamtrainsandghosts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steamtrainsandghosts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steamtrainsandghosts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steamtrainsandghosts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steamtrainsandghosts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steamtrainsandghosts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steamtrainsandghosts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}