The Best Seitan Recipe in the World!

I've been promising this for awhile, but I need to share now that I've gotten it typed up.  Based on VeganDad's Veggie Lunch Meat, this seitan loaf lasts us all week, and provides one of our main sources of protein.  You can slice it for sandwiches, dice it for stir fries, grind it for spaghetti sauces.  It's really that versatile.  And cheap!  I'll estimate that even with my having to use extra-special wheat gluten (I order from NOW Foods from the States which is so expensive to ship, yet safe with all our allergies compared to Bob's Red Mill), it costs about $10 to make.  That's a great price in these trying economic times!  While not gluten-free by any means, it is soy-free, nut-free and even legume-free (for maybe the only other two people in the world who are allergic to them like my son!).


Sarah's Seitan


2 cups water

1 cup cooked quinoa

½ cup nutritional yeast

1/3 cup olive oil

1 scoop of rice protein or hemp protein powder

1 tbsp maple syrup

2 tsp salt

2 tsp paprika

2 tsp onion powder

1 tsp garlic powder

1 tsp pepper

Few dashes of liquid smoke (optional)

2 3/4 cups vital wheat gluten

Place all ingredients except the gluten flour in a bowl process until smooth with an immersion blender. Add gluten flour and work into a dough.

Shape dough into a log and wrap in heavy duty foil like a tootsie roll. Steam for 1 hour.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Remove seitan from steamer and bake for 45 minutes.

Cool, then store in the fridge.  Freezes beautifully!


Some pics of this in action...

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