• Owl [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    Seitan is a food you make by extracting just the gluten from wheat, making a dough of that, kneading the hell of of it, then cooking it. It’s 75% protein by mass.

    Pure seitan is tough and aggressively bland, but mixing a little of just about anything into the flour fixes both of those. In my opinion, a good seitan recipe has the best texture of any meat.

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        It’s sort of a building block food, you can really flavor it to taste like just about anything. Vegan place I worked at did seitan donair for example. It’s a little tricky to make but after a few tries you’ll have it going well

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          I often hear that people tell me they don’t like seitan or tofu because it doesn’t taste like anything.

          Unlike chicken that you can basically eat raw and don’t even have to season, because it has such a good taste.