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Monday, May 15, 2006
Barbecued Seitan
I had designs on making jerk seitan again but I didn't have time to marinate it so I got out the grill pan and some store-bought barbecue sauce instead. Doing some cooking over the weekend paid off tonight since I made the seitan and bread this weekend. I grilled the seitan and some onions, brushing liberally with the barbecue sauce, and we had that on sandwiches with some steamed broccoli on the side. We'll get back to the jerk seitan one day soon, but this was also quite scrumptious and fairly quick and easy to make. (Cleaning the grill pan afterwards was not so easy but I got it done...)
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Oh that looks fantastic! I love the grill marks too! I've been craving bbq lately. Quess I better buy some gluten and make myself up some seiten this weekend or drive myself mad.
Grilled vegetables have such terrific flavor - onions, zukes, mushrooms, etc... I think it's my favorite way to prepare them, and your seitan and onions there look excellent!
Chris - your grill pan, is it an indoor type? I want to get something for inside, and am thinking of the Foreman grill, but cannot decide - any opinion based on what you are using? Also, is there any storebought seitan brands that you think are very good? Seitan is very hard to find here, and I am going to ask my natural foods store to bring some in from the US, but I'm not sure which brand(s)/varieties are the best.
btw - I give you credit making your own bread (and seitan), when you are also cooking from scratch so often. Pat yourselves on the back!!
Here in NYC the natural food stores carry seitan made by The Bridge ("Traditional foods for modern times") in Middletown, CT, which is quite good.
Wow, that looks delicious Chris - you can't beat a sandwich on homemade bread. I envy your grill pan;)
What recipe do you use for your seitan? I really want to make my own - I see all these recipes but I'd like to get some input from someone who has tried it themselves and has some opinions.
Peace!
Thanks everyone!
Dreena - our grill pan is a large rectangular type that fits over 2 burners on our stove. Unfortunately it doesn't fit all that well so you have to be careful or it'll slide around. What I like about it is that it has a flat side so you can flip it over and cook pancakes, etc. on it (which is actually how we use it most). I don't remember the brand, but I wouldn't necessarily recommend it anyway - it's supposed to be non-stick but the non-stick coating isn't very good. If I was going to get another one I think I'd look for a cast iron one. I've used a Foreman grill and I like them but we have a small kitchen so we're careful about buying things that take up more space.
On the seitan, the only variety we can ever find in stores here is WhiteWave which comes in a blue or red package. When I make my own I use the recipe from Vegan with a Vengeance (which you can also find on-line on the PPK - the VwaV recipe uses 2 cups gluten flour).
Oh man, I love barbecue sauce on tofu or seitan- or chickpeas, french fries... mmm. Also a big fan of PPK's seitan recipe, it's a winner for sure! I usually substitute low sodium Tamari for soy (subtle difference), and a few shakes of lemon-pepper seasoning instead of the lemon zest, and to simmer I rarely do more than a cup and a half of vegetable broth with the rest water (plus the soy or tamari, sometimes with a little Braggs- but a little goes a long way). So. Good. The only thing is trying to watch all the salt of the different salted ingredients (veg broth, soy sauce, and sometimes the lemon-pepper seasoning), because I've acciently got it rather too salty once or twice- still edible, though.
PS I love this blog!
This looks so good. I recently got a Cuisinart griddler. It looks like a foreman grill, so you can grill and make paninis, then it also opens up flat. Plus you can take out the grill plates and put in flat grill sheets to make pancakes or something else. I can't wait to use it.
Thanks Chris for that info! I have tried the White Wave product a couple of times after some shopping at a US market. I thought it was better than the one I can occasionally buy here, but not as good as seitan I have had in restaurants, etc. I once tried Tanya Petrovna's (Native Foods) seitan at VegFest where we were both doing cooking demos. It was by far the best seitan I have had, and I wanted to order it directly from her (it was that fabulous!) - but the US/Canada thing is troublesome. Anyhow... thanks for your input (oh and also to Karen about the Cuisinart grill). :)
I haven't yet been brave enough to make my own seitan, but your pictures look absolutely delish, I may have to spend some time this weekend conquering that fear! BBQ sounds great, can you recomend a good vegan bbq sauce?
I know what you mean about the salt Jen. I usually cut back a little on the soy sauce in the VwaV recipe. In fact, this time we were out of soy sauce so I made it sort of "chicken" style with some added salt since I wasn't using soy sauce and some herbs like sage, celery seed, thyme and marjoram.
Karen - thanks for the tip on the Cuisinart
Dreena - I think I like our homemade seitan better than the white wave, plus it's so much cheaper. WW is pretty good though when I haven't had time to make it from scratch. And thanks for the tip on Native Foods - being in the East I hadn't heard of it, but next time we're in California...
And jessiegirl - the bbq sauce we used this time was from Trader Joe's - but I've found vegan varieties in regular grocery stores too - it's just a bit of a pain to take the time to read all the labels.
Next time I make seitan, I am gonna BBQ it just like this. NICE!
Thanks Kleopatra! It was definitely yummy.
THis is a wonderful site! With wonderful food!
I am a vegitarian runner - and am always looking for more veggie recipies!
Thank you!
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