1. Prepare a steamer basket. In a food processor or a large bowl, mash beans until they look like mush. Now, mix in your onion, garlic and spices (from the coriander to the sugar).
2. Next, add the broth, vegetable oil, soy sauce, liquid smoke and nutritional yeast. Mix it all up. Add the vital wheat gluten. It is essential that you add the gluten last because otherwise your spices will make a spiral through everything and it is disgusting.
3. Now mix it all together until it looks like bread dough. Okay, this is the fun part. Tear off sheets of aluminum foil. Form dough into long skinny strips, about 1/2" thick and 5" long (or for lil' smokeys, 1 1/2" x 1/4"). They will not look like hot dogs, yet.
4. Roll them in the foil (with ends twisted) and place them in your steamer. Let them steam for 40 minutes. They will expand. After that, unwrap them and store them in an air tight container or eat them.
This recipe makes between 30-45 lil' smokeys and up to 12 hot dogs depending on the size you form them into.
Source of recipe: This recipe is great. It was created for my son Jonah because I want him to have all the experiences with food that I have had. If you'd like, these go great with the corn dog batter that I wrote some time back (http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=36834.0 [1]).