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Quick & Easy Homemade Gluten
What you need:
1 cup gluten flour
1 cup water
vegetable broth, as needed
What you do:
1. Stir gluten flour and water together, adding more water if necessary. You want a nice thick dough.
2. Knead to get the gluten elastic and squeeze out the excess water. (I do this right in the bowl I mixed it in, or a colander would work to drain off the water.)
3. Break in small pieces and simmer in vegetable broth at least 1/2 hour. The longer you knead and simmer the gluten, the tougher it will become, so you can pick your own texture.
This recipe is a lot simpler than the old-fashioned way!
Preparation Time:
about 1 hour
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SO HOW'D IT GO?
Based on the other recipes for Seitan on vegweb,the reason it was so wet is that it is meant to be fried to baked after the boiling stage. Give that a try and it should be a better consistency. Cheers!
I thought this was going to come out bland and was tempted to add spices, and I thought it was wayy too wet, but i resisted and it came out wonderful. I made it for fred chicken from this site, the only negative thing I could say is it held a lot of water after boiling. DELICIOUS
I cannot believe how fast I just made this... I feel so stupid for paying $4/package!
Thanks so much for the recipe!
(Oh, I also added a little no-chicken bouillon to the water I added to the gluten, as well as to the water I used to boil it.)
;)b I halved the recipe and it is great! I am off to fry it up!